gabriellebw 's review for:

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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On the coast of Cuba, two friends: an old man and a young boy struggle against lives they cannot completely control: the boy's parents want him to stop going out on the man's fishing boat, and the old man has gone without catching fish for a string of hopeless days. The story is about going past those obstacles -- not in defiance, but out of faith and love, to be the best at what each of them was put on Earth to be. It is an inspiring and suspenseful story. It reads like a parable, and reminds me a lot of Steinbeck's THE PEARL in style, content and purpose. The man thinks to himself: "...I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."