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A review by reaper_hound
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
3.0
3.75 stars
The ending certainly hit something in my heart.
"He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride."
“Remember we are in September.”
“The month when the great fish come,” the old man said. “Anyone can be a fisherman in May.”
“I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.”
“I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.”
He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her
The ending certainly hit something in my heart.
"He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride."
“Remember we are in September.”
“The month when the great fish come,” the old man said. “Anyone can be a fisherman in May.”
“I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.”
“I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.”
He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her