![]() ![]() My favorite thing about this story has to be pure, raw determination of the protagonist. Determined to break his curse, Santiago takes his skiff out to sea to prove to himself and his community that his bad luck days are over. Even the father of his young companion, Manolin, is forbidden to hang around him anymore for fear his luck will rub off on him. It has been eighty-four days since he has caught a fish. The Old Man and the Sea follows Santiago, a fisherman in Cuba with the world’s worst luck. And as the only novel you may read that year after being assigned it in 7th-grade English class, there’s no way it would ruin reading for boys and girls everywhere, right? ![]() Ernest Hemingway is one of the most esteemed authors of the modern era, and his Nobel Prize-winning novel, The Old Man and the Sea, is often cited as his greatest work. I wouldn’t feel right about my pursuit to be well-read and an accomplished author if I didn’t make time for the classics. ![]()
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