First Novel Of Hemingway That I Read, and My Feeling After Read The Story

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

                   I finished read this novel almost 1 year days ago. This novel was created by Ernest Hemingway, he was born on July 21, 1899, in suburban Oak Park, IL, his parents are Dr. Clarence and Grace Hemingway. He died on July 2, 1961 because he killed himself.  For his novel named The Old Man and the Sea, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and in 1954 Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he said “for his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of narration.” Ernest was the second of six children to be raised in the quiet suburban town.  The name of Ernest taken from his grandmother name, Ernest Hall. He had a sister named Marcelline, she older than Ernest, different 18 month. But his mom sometime said to everyone that Marcelline and Ernest are twin, she often gave the girl’s clothes for Ernest and called him Ernestine.

            This novel using English modern. So, it was not too difficult to understand what this novel talked about. Actually, I found many new vocabulary in this novel, but I try to do a guess and imagine in the story then continue my reading. Honestly, it made me lose my way, so I still open my dictionary for a few time. But this novel has not many pages, just 37 pages in original eBook, so, it made me easier finished this novel hehe.

            This novel talked about the old man named Santiago. He was a fisherman, the boy named Manolin often helped him to caught the fish every day. But for eighty four days they did not get anything. For first forty days, the boy accompanied the old man, but after forty days, because of they did not get the fish, although just one, the boy’s parents commanded his son to leaved the old man because he guess that the old man was not lucky fisherman. The boy felt very sad, but he still helped the old man, he gave the good bait to the old man.

            After got the good bait from Manolin, in the morning he try to caught the fish although without Manolin. After midday, he got a tuna fish and he saved it. Then at sunset, he felt his bait caught by the big fish, and he got a whale, but the fish very big, bigger than his boat, he could not caught the fish because the fish very strong. Because of that, he had to slept on his boat until the big fish weak.

            The old man was happy when I knew that he caught the very big fish, maybe the biggest fish that he had never saw before. He imagined on his mind when everybody saw him got a big whale. But poor the old man, the whale very strong, in the night he felt very hungry and he ate his tuna without cooked it. When he try to slept, the whale had a movement and made his boat movement also, so he would not comfort when he slept. He try to pulled the rope of his bait until his hand hurt and had a blood.

            I felt very poor to the old man, but his sadness still on his way. Until the morning came, and he caught a tuna fish again for his lunch, he could not get the whale, “It is very strong fish”, he said. But at sunset, the whale did a cycle, around his boat, when the fish near to his boat, he stabbed the fish with his weapon, and finally the fish died.

            He was very happy, but sometimes he felt very did not believe when he saw there was a very big fish beside his boat. Suddenly, another big fish approached his fish, that fish ate 40 pond from the meat of his fish, he try to killed that fish with his weapon, but the fact, many big fish approached his fish until he lose all his weapon and then all meat of his fish eaten by another big fish. He was very angry and stabbed all the big fish with the last weapon, and the last strength that he had. He felt very sad because there was not big fish again beside his boat, he just looked the bone of the fish.

            When he returned to his home, everybody saw the big bone beside the old man’s boat. Mandolin cried, he felt poor to the old man, but suddenly, a tourist approached and said that he saw many big fish died on the sea. Actually, the old man was a champion; he killed many big fish when he tried to keep his big fish.

            I enjoyed read this novel, because this novel using English modern and the pages of this novel is not too long. I like this novel very much because this novel gives learning to us to never give up. But I felt very poor to the old man. I thought the old man is the strong man, or maybe he is the strongest old man that I had never found before, hehe. He was very patient and never give up to get something that he want to get. So, because of that, I will recommend my friend to read this novel, because this novel gives many message to the reader.

            The most interesting topic in this novel is about when the old man try to keep his big fish but another big fish ate his fish. I interesting to this topic because I try to imagine this story on my mind when the old man named Santiago tried killed the big fish that wanted ate his fish. Very poor but this season gave a learning to us to never give up. An unpredictable topic in this novel when I knew that actually, the big fish that he already tried killed them in the fact died. So, actually he lost one big fish but he got many big fish again, but he didn’t know about that because he felt very tired.