The Old man and the Sea bookreport
The Old man and the Sea bookreportThe Old Man and the Sea
For my summer reading book I read “The old man and the sea” by Ernest Hemmingway. This story is about an old man named Santiago who is the main character in the book. Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who used to be a sailor when he was young. He Traveled to Africa and still has dreams about the lions he saw when he went there. He still has memories from the past when he caught other fish and of arm wrestling matches.
Santiago is thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotched of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face. His hands had the deep creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh, they were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. He likes to read about baseball in the Newspaper, talks about Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees, he likes to sleep when he gets home, and he drinks coffee and beer at the Terrace. Everything about him was old, except his eyes that are the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. He has good eyes for an old man because many old people don’t have every good eye sight at his age.
Santiago lives in a one room shack that is made of the tough bud shields of the royal palm that are called “guano.” There was a bed, a table, one chair, and a place on the dirt floor to cook with charcoal. On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered “guano” there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre. These were relics of his wife. Once there has been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he has taken it down because it made him to lonely to see it, so he put it on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt.
Santiago has been very unlucky for the past eighty four days because he hasn’t caught a fish so now he fishes alone. He used to fish with his faithful friend Manolin but after forty days without catching any fish Manolin’s father made him switch on to another fisherman’s boat. Santiago taught Manolin how to fish when he as five years old and has been a loyal friend every since. Manolin visits with Santiago everyday when he comes back with his skiff in with it empty and Manolin feels sad and always goes down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched...
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