Skiff- a small boat for one or two people.
The old man boarded the skiff with his poles and mast.
The skiff was very easy to tip over so i had to be careful.
Sfiffs skipp across the water because they are so light.

Reading The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Heminway is like
it's plot it is slow and boring but in the end, it pays off. The book is about an
old man named Santiago but is referred to as the old man who is a commercial
angler in 1950’s Cuba. The book tells about his patience while trying to catch
the biggest fish of his life by battling the fish for about four days as it
pulls him far out to sea. I picked this book because I like to fish and though
it would be good but it was a super slow book that will put you to
sleep.


The theme is important to
life; you do not always get what you want even if you try very hard. The old man
had been having trouble having not caught a fish in 84 days when he hooked a
giant marlin. He fought the huge fish for about four days while it dragged him
far out into the Gulf Stream. When he finally got the fish, sharks ate it up on
the trip back to port. Since the setting of the book took place at sea the
opposite would be on land and obviously trying to catch fish on land is
impossible, so it has to take place at sea or the book wouldn’t be
correct.


Two important characters in
the book would be the old man and the marlin. The old man and the marlin are
enemies throughout the book but they respect each other’s strength and
knowledge. The old man becomes wiser through the book because every minute the
marlin was dragging him further out to sea this teaches him to have more
patience and to respect the fish. The old man is important to the plot because
it is about him and his recent bad luck. He is important to the theme because he
is the character that learns the lesson when he battles the marlin and losses it
he learned about patience and that sometimes it does not work out. The marlin is
important because it is the conflict it is what is fighting the old man. It is
important to the plot because it is what the old man was trying to catch to
break his streak of bad luck. It is important to the theme because it teaches
the old man to respect and be patient and that you don’t always get what you
want.


The structure of the book
was great it was very simple witch I like so just about anyone can read it. It
uses a lot of flashbacks in the beginning and in the end when the old man keeps
dreaming of seeing loins on the beaches of Africa in his younger days. Three
major events would be when the old man hooked the fish, when he sees it for the
first time and when the sharks eat it. When he hooks the fish the effect is that
he has just begun the battle of his life. When he sees it for the first time it
jumped out in front of the skiff the effect is that he realizes just how hard it
is going to be to catch him and that it is the biggest fish he has ever caught.
  When the sharks eat the marlin he is disappointed but realizes that he has
  learned a valuable lesson and has become wiser also he realizes he is going to
  need more help because he is getting too
old.


The syntax of the book is very
  simple which makes the book so easy to read and simple to understand. “He no
  longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrence, nor of great
  fish, nor of fights, nor contest of strength, nor of his wife.” (Hemingway page 25) This
sentence seemed to long and repetitive and I think that Hemmingway should have
cut some of it out so that there are three or four things instead of seven.
“After it is light, he thought, I will work back to the forty-fathom bait and
cut it away too and link up the reserve coils.”(Hemingway page 51)This sentence is written
very well a reader that doesn’t fish could easily become confused by this but
Hemmingway does a good job simplifying this for the reader. “We must get a good
killing lance and always have it on board. You can make a blade from a spring
leaf from an old Ford. We can grind it in Guanabacoa. It should be sharp and not
tempered so it will break. My knife broke.”(Hemingway page 125) These sentences should be
combined in to one or two sentences the way it is it is too short and choppy it
doesn’t flow smoothly like it should. “it is so easy to see why Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize, and why he deserves all of his accolades”(Zack Davisson amazon.com) I do not agree with this review I think it was
an ok book I don’t think it was that good of a book to win
one. “It seems that many of the people got bored of the book because there are no
successive excitements throughout the story”(No name customer amazon.com) I agree with this
review there were really no exiting parts in the book just the same excitement
  range all the way through. “His talent was declining, he had over the past ten years written far more bad books than good ones”(Robert Moore amazon.com)I agree with this review this book falls into that
list it was not as good as I hoped it would be but sometimes you don’t always
get what you want.


So
what? This book was easy to read because the syntax was simple there was nothing
to flashy. I would recommend this book to people that do not mind reading a
bland book also to people that like to read about fishing. I thought of this
book, as just like fishing it can be slow and boring at times but in the end,
you learn something important. The theme of the book did attach to me because I
know what it’s like to work hard and come up short. Over all I didn’t really
like the book and I wouldn’t recommend it to a friend.