The Old Man and the Sea #10

My personal opinion of the novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is that I did not see the point in the novel. It was inspiring and discouraging. It is inspiring because the Old Man never gives up. He keeps trying. He fishes for his life and he knows nothing else. This makes it inspiring because he loves what he does and he trusts the system enough that he knows that he will not go hungry and will always have somewhere to call home. It is very discouraging because he can not catch a fish. I would think that with a man of his knowledge and skill, he would be able to catch a fish. In the book, it said that the longest he has gone without a fish was eighty seven days. That is a long time to go without a fish and it is disheartening to realize that the other fishermen are able to catch fish while a man with his skill can not catch a thing. I do like that is on the sea and he likes his job. This made it a little bit easier to read. Once he is on the sea it gets really boring. An exciting part is when he catches the fish and I think that it is going to get interesting, but it does not. When the Old Man gets cut and when he sees the fish, it seems like Ernest is trying to make the story interesting. It did interest me when we go to read what the fish looked like and the way the Old Man loved the fish. That part made sense to me because the Old Man realizes that its the circle of life and he needs the fish. Once he caught the fish, I did not think that the book could get much more boring. It did not to my surprise. The funny part was when the sharks came up to eat the fish. To me there was no point in the story. I got nothing out of it because he ended up where he started and it made no sense to me.