The Old Man & the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

                    

  The Old Man & the Sea is by Ernest Hemingway is about a man named Santiago in his late sixties who is a fisherman. He has not caught a single fish for eighty-four days. He has never gone that long without catching a single fish before. When goes out fishing he plans to go out farther than he normally does because he's hoping to catch a marlin. So one morning he gets up real early and heads down to the dock to put his twelve foot skiff into the water & head out to sail. He goes out in the little boat so that he can't see any land and he sets his hooks into the water, two for forty-fathoms and one for 300 fathoms. Later that day he catches a little tuna, so he brought it in the skiff & killed it with a club. A little while after that he saw a humongous marlin that jumped straight out of the water and dove back under the sea. He waited a little while longer and he wanted the big fish to jump again.

   The theme that I would choose for this book is, sometimes the unluckiest people can have some luck but then it goes away. One of my examples is Santiago hasn't caught any fish for eighty-four days,"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."(pg.9) My second example is he sees a bird that helps him find the marlin,"Now the old man looked up and saw the bird was circling again."He's found fish."(pg.37) My third and final example is that Santiago was unable to get home with the fish whole,"Nothing,"He said aloud."I went out too far."(pg.120) That's why I think the theme is, sometimes the unluckiest people can have some luck but the it goes away.

  

  I would recommend this book to other seventh grade readers. One of the reasons why is because it's non-fiction. My second reason is it's kind of adventurous. The third and final reason is it's a good fishing story. That is why I would recommend this book to other seventh grade readers.

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