2nd book blog

For my second book I chose The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway. This was the book that someone I admire likes. My dad has always talked about how great this book was and This was the perfect opportunity to read it! I really enjoyed this book, even though it was short it was very powerful. Santiago sounds like he as the same luck as I do with fishing. I love fishing very much, but I am more often catching nothing then catching fish. I hope that my luck is better this weekend when I go on the rogue river for 3 days! Santiago has a friend that helps him but when they are unsuccessful his parents tell him to go on another boat. It is unbelievable to me that people used to paddle out into the ocean back in those days. I am afraid to go out in the ocean on less then a twenty foot boat with a motor, let alone a paddle boat! At first when he goes out past the great wall he catches a small tuna (which is pretty cool to me, I have always wanted to catch a tuna!.) He then gets a bite from a marlin but the fish doesn't commit to the bite for a while. The fish finally swallows the bait and the fight is on. Santiago fights it all through the night saying that he wont let the fish go. The fish finally jumps and Santiago is amazed at the size, he says that it was 2 feet longer then his boat (sounds like a fish story to me!) After the long fight and tying the fish to the side of his boat he set his sails to go back to shore, a shark became interested in the scent of the blood and followed the train to Santiagos boat. Santiago waits for the shark to get closer and shoots it in the head with a harpoon, killing it and watching it sink to the depths of the ocean. Then more sharks come and he fends them off with his knife attached to his oar. He did all he could to save the marlin from the sharks but by the time he returned to the harbor it was just a skeleton. Everyone was amazed at how large the marlin was. This book was just awesome! I couldn't ever imagine catching a fish with that size, i'm lucky to catch a fish at all when I go out. I have decided to give this book to my dad for his birthday, he says that he has had many copies but always gives them away. I hope he likes it.