Wednesday, 9 February 2011

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

This is the book I've just finished reading which I'd like to tell everybody to read because it was fantastic :)
It's only about 100 pages long, and critics have called it the best short story of all time- Hemingway got the Nobel Prize for Literature for it. It's about a very old fisherman who hasn't caught a fish for 85 days... And then something happens... The main theme is endurance, as he is incredibly strong and resilient and is wonderful :) my favourite line is when he talks to himself, urging himself to keep fighting, and he says 'a man can be destroyed, but not defeated'. It's really worth a read  :)

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