Overall I did not like this book very much. Answering all these questions caused me to really think hard over this book. I pretty much studied almost every bit of the story and really thought about what happened. I interpreted different parts and tried to think of different ways the story could have been taken. After all the work I did on it though it all comes down to an old man going out fishing. There is symbolism and secrets stuck in the pages that you can't read but you have to think about after. The author was brilliant and was a very good writer I just found the story to be boring. I just felt like Harry Potter because I said brillant. But anyways, I can't really relate to an old man fishing. For one reason I have never been fishing in my life and I have never been an old man. I also have never been in a little boat like that. I do not find fish to be "beautiful" no matter how big they are. I would just think the marlin in this book was a big fish I would not think the fish was something that special. I found it hard to relate to the old man. Even though I do have to strive for things I want I just could not relate. I think the other went too much in to detail when he wrote this story. It was nearly a hundred pages describing a man trying to catch a fish. The old man just had to do the same process over and over and each time the old man did it the author explained every little thing again. I think there should have been more to the story. A little less detail on how the old man caught the fish and his experiences out there and a little more insight on what happened when the old man got back. I think it would have been interesting to see how the younger fishermen treated him after he got back from getting the fish. I also wonder what the people could have possibly done with that huge fish skeleton.
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