The Old man and the Sea P65--127 by Bing

The old man will say ten our fathers and ten hail marys that he can catch the fish. Sometime even he doesn’t want kill the fish, he will kill the fish. Although it is unjust, he thought. But he will show the little boy what a man can do and what a man endures. Then he tired to catch the fish, he think if the fish are not tired, the fish must be very strange. As the sun set he remembered, to give himself more confidence, the time in the tavern at Casablanca. He won the game that night. People called him winner for a long time. Then an airplane passed overhead on its course to Miame and he watched its shadow scaring up the schools of flying fish. He was imagine what the feeling in the airplane, it mush be very strange. The old man unhooked the fish, re-baited the line with another sardine and tossed it over. I said the fish still no change, the boat is slower now. After he got fish he asked the fish “how do you feel?” he answered “I feel good.” In the truth he is not feeling good because the pain from the cord across his back had almost passed pain and gone into a dullness that he mistrusted. He tried rest a lot, the sky darked very early everyday. He was looking for how the fish change. The moon didn’t rise now until late and he had no way of judging the time. He tried to sleep; his right arm was asleep because his head had rested on it instead of a pillow. He did not dream of the lions but he dreamed that he was in the village on his bed and there was a other and he was very cold. After he weak up he could not see the fish’s jumps but only heard the breaking of the ocean and the heavy splash as he fell. He told himself again, if the little boy was here he would wet the coils of the line. Yes.. If the boy was here. Then he fishing again, after he jumped that his right hand had been in the water long enough he took it out and looked at it . And he thought pain doesn’t not matter to a man. Why was him not born with two good hands. He was eating all of it down to the tail. It has more nourishment than most fish. He fishing again, he felt tired, he can see some black spots in his eyes. Twicw, though, he had felt faint and dizzy and that had worried him. He plan say a hundred our fathers and a hundred hail marys. But he cant say them now. After three times he got a fish, It was a long big fish. The old man told himself said be calm and strong. He hope the fish kill him, he thought he never seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than that fish. He asked come on and kill him, he does care who kills who. After that, he told himself “clear up, clear up.” Twice more it was the same on the turns. He fishing again, and he got some fish, everytime after he got fish I will do a lot work. Then he saw a big fish, he planed to catch him, he though he needs a pencil for that how big is the fish. His head is not that clear. That fish is so big it was like a boat. He did not need a compass to tell him where southwest was. He only needed the feel of the trade wind and drawing of the sail. The old man soaked his hands in the salt water and tired to keep his head clear. Then he saw a shark, it was he first time saw shark. The shark was not an accident. He had come up from deep down in the water. When the shark coming to the old man, the old man’s head was clear and good. The old man hit the fish the old man saw shark’s mouth open and his strange eyes. When the shark getting close, the old man hit it with his blood mushed hands driving a good harpoon with all his strength. Shark wad killed by the old man. The old man told himself “But man is not made for defeat, A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” He was sorry that he killed the fish tough. He tried to keep himself happy. The old man thought he think too much, but he enjoyed killing the dentuso. Then the old man hoped the Galanos come on. One turned and under his skiff and the old man could feel the shake as he jerked and pulled on the fish. After the old man tried to kill him, the fish was run away. The old man wiped the blade of his knife and laid the oar. He wish he had a stone for the knife. He tried to keep himself thinking about nothing. He told himself he is tired. Then two sharks was coming to the old man. The old man let him hit the fish and then drove the knife on the oar down into his brain. The old man watched for him to come again but neither shark showed. He could not expect to kill them, he thought. The he cant be too far out now, he thought. He hopes no one has been worried. There is only the boy to worry, of course. He has all those prayers he promised if he caught the fish, he thought. But he is too tired now. Around ten clock he saw the city, he think the wind is his friend, and the great sea with his friend and hi enemies. And bed he thought. Finally he put the mast down and stood up. Then he is sleeping. The little found him and asked some coffee for the old man. The old man was very happy because he can tall to somebody now, not just talk to himself. The little boy wants fish with the old man in the future. The little boy is going to ask some drugstore for the old man’s hand. A lady ask a waiter “ what is that?’ “ Tiburon” the waiter said “ Eshark.” The lady said she didn’t know sharks had such handsome, beautifully formed tails. The old man was sleeping again. The little boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.



Opinion:

After I read this book, I understand a lot thing in our life. The old man who fishing in the sea for 84 days. He never worried about something or to be scared something. Everyone think he was a loser, but he proved he is a winner. We must keep our head clear every time in our life. No one alive for be defeated. We should believe we can do something, even we fail couple times, we still should have confidence, like the old man, he fishing all the time, he was never give up. In the future, I will never worry about some difficulty things. I will never give up, kind like study, sometimes I will have some problem, I will never give up and study hard. Because I believe myself. I can do everything I want to do. The faith is one of the cause for success. If you have faith, You will be winner, and impossible is nothing. The book “the old man and the old sea” is a very good book, the book tells me a lot sense. And a lot sentences in this book Is very great. I wrote some on my notebook already. Nice book.