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Today, I would like to give my summarizing  of  the book entitled " The old man and the sea" 

there was an old man named Santiago
he was an old man fishing alone on a canoe in the gulf, and now he had left for eighty-four days without getting a fish. In the first forty days a boy was with him. The named boy is manilon.
But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents finally said that the old man must have been salao, which means the worst form of misfortune, then the boy went away following the instructions of his parents to sail on another boat, where they have managed to catch three big fish only in the first week. It was heartbreaking for the boy to see the old man coming home every day with his empty boat, so he always went down to the shore to help the old man carry a rope reel, or a spear and spear of fish and a screen rolled around the mast . The screen was patched by flour sacks and rolled up like an endless flag of defeat.



 The closeness between Santiago and Manolin is like a father and a child, and they also love each other.

"Every day is a new day. This reality is better than luck. But I should be more sure. So that when luck arrives, you will be ready to receive it. "(P. 26)

Title: Old man and the sea (The old man and the sea)
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publish: November 2009 (Printing III)
Thickness: 145 p

Book summary :
The Old Man and the Sea retell the heroic struggle between an old fisherman who had experience with a giant marlin called the biggest catch of his life. The story begins with the story that the fisherman named Santiago had passed 84 days without even catching a fish (later mentioned in the story turned out to be 87 days). He always seemed unlucky in catching fish so that his young students, Manolin, were forbidden by his parents from sailing with the old man and were told to go with more successful fishermen. Still devoted to the old man, Manolin visited the Santiago house every night, raised his fisherman's equipment, fed him and talked about American baseball with the old man. Santiago told Manolin that the next day he would sail very far into the middle of the bay to catch fish, and he was sure that the wave of his fortunate fate would soon be over.

So on the 85th day, Santiago sailed alone, carrying his small boat deep into the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. He set the hook, and in the next afternoon, a big fish he was sure was a marlin biting his bait. Santiago could not pull the fish, instead found a small boat that was actually pulled by the giant fish. Two days and two nights passed in that situation, and during that time the old man held his snare with his own hard work. Even though he was very sick and injured in his struggle, Santiago felt a sense of love, emotion and appreciation for his opponent, often referring to the fish as his brother. He also decided that because of the fish's great dignity, no one was worthy to eat the fish.

On the third day of his struggle, the fish began circling his small boat, showing his tiredness to the old man. Santiago, now exhausted, began to deliriate, and was almost insane, using all the remaining energy he had to pull the fish to the side of his boat and stab the marlin with a harpoon, thus ending the long struggle between the old man and the fish that very strong to survive.

Santiago tied the marlin's carcass on the side of his small boat and began sailing home, thinking about the high price the fish would give to the fish market and the number of people who could enjoy the catch. As long as Santiago continued its journey home to the seafront, the sharks began to be attracted to the traces of blood left by the marlin in the water. The first is the mako shark that Santiago killed with his harpoon, causing him to lose the weapon. He then assembled a new harpoon by tying the knife blade to the end of a paddle to drive away the sharks that came next. Five sharks were killed and many other sharks finally left. In the evening the sharks had devoured the entire carcass of the marlin, leaving only the backbone, tail, and head, where the head was still stuck in the harpoon of the old man's fisherman. Santiago was very sad and punished himself for sacrificing the marlin, and finally arrived at the edge of the sea before dawn the next day. He struggled to walk towards his hut, carrying his heavy ship's pole on his shoulders. After arriving home, he lay down on the bed and went into long sleep.