Old Man and the Sea #6

I think we still read the book today for many reasons. Including, to learn about perseverance and determination, and Hemingway’s unique writing styles. Hemingway is also a famous authors American history and should be remembered.

As stated earlier, we still read this book today because we need to learn how others are perseverant in many ways. Even in this novel, Santiago is perseverant about everything he does. “I won’t die until this fish is caught” (Hemingway, 76). We read this because we all need to be more like Santiago in our own lives. He never gives up even though he has horrible things that happen to him. Including that he is an extremely poor (on an American scale), his wife has died already, his best friend Miagao doesn’t see him as often as he would like him to, he caught a Marlin but it was eaten by sharks. See his much more unluckily than you or I am. The worst thing that has happened to me today is that I have to write these blogs. I also think we read this book to be thankful that we don’t have a life like Santiago, nobody really has a worse life than he does unless under worse worries.

The other reason why I think we read this book is because Hemingway himself. Hemingway writes differently than most authors, which in my view isn’t great but we should all explore different types of writing, so we can understand all types and genres of literature. Also Hemingway is a famous author that changed American literature during the 1950s. Hemingway won a Pulitzer prize because of the book, The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway did in my opinion betray his country, and was like many other authors during the Jazz Age, but that was his move, but if it were me I would have stayed here. He moved like many of the other writers, because we were too materialistic. He could have changed that during the Great Depression though too.

Both of the reasons that I have explained are extremely important reasons why we still read The Old Man and the Sea, more than fifty years later.  

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 1952. Print