Book Review 5 : The Old Man and The Sea.

 

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒅𝒂𝒚. 𝑰𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒕. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚.” --𝑬𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒍𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒂

It is hard to find someone who atleast never have heard the name of Hemingway's astonishing literary works. As of 1952, when the book was published, it brought him a tremendous success with so many international prizes including Nobel prize in Literature.

The book is all about an old man, 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐨 who used to fish in the heart of the sea ; a young boy,  𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧, was a trainee and a companion of the old man ; a big, beautiful fish called 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧.

𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐨 used to sail towards the sea in every sunrise with the boy for fishing. That year, earlier on summer, Fortune didn't favor him much. Consequently, he had to go without any fish for months. It took exactly 85 days for God to smiled at his fortune. And he managed to hook a huge 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧 fish that was too heavy to handle for him.

In fine, after three days of circling the skiff over and over, the fish seemed flimsy. It facilitated 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐨'𝐬 job to be done. But with surprises, it didn't eliminate his troubles and sufferings all the way. Whereas he hooked the fish with a harpoon, it hit the fish extremely that led the blood pulled-out across the skiff. After a while, several monstrous sharks appeared periodically, later on they mutilated the fish almost entirely except the bone which was taken to the shore. 

Surviving the days and nights in the heart of the sea where dangers were outstretched out everywhere, was not facile. Whenever troubles began to play, he motivated himself. He was likely to be less mindful for his pain than his desires. 

The 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 of the book is partly different from the other modern literary works because of its simplicity-wrapping a big image in a single bundle.  One thing which could bother its reader, is its literary words related to fishing. Hence, It might not deflect attention. 

Without doubt, The book is highly reccomended for its nomination in the list of 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. Now, if that is not exciting then, i don't know what it is left to be used to persuade.

Happy reading!! 😊

𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝟒.𝟒/𝟓