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I think that the author depicted the willingness of a human to win and the hurdles and difficulties which one faces in one's life really well.
As it is said that ' A man can be destroyed but never be defeated' and it is true in our life as well. Santiago though an old man wants to catch a big fish despite of the fact that he goes without fish for so many days and peoples disbelief he still goes out in the sea alone and catches one still he faced so many difficulties to bring it home and in the en ...more
As it is said that ' A man can be destroyed but never be defeated' and it is true in our life as well. Santiago though an old man wants to catch a big fish despite of the fact that he goes without fish for so many days and peoples disbelief he still goes out in the sea alone and catches one still he faced so many difficulties to bring it home and in the en ...more
Why are people such ignorants of this book.... I mean sure its written plainly and sometimes it might get boring for some, but the message and the book as a whole is marvelous. It is not great because it changed the way Americans write(which it didn't) It is great because of the many conclusions and conceptions that one can draw from it....I guess its just sad to see such a good book being bashed like this
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I read The Sun Also Rises in high school and hated it so I came into this book with some preconceived notions and yet I was moved! Despite myself! I'm a little annoyed honestly that I got so emotionally invested in this. It's less than 100 pages and yet it's like... the immense futility of life and the struggle that inevitably fails due to the unyielding hand of fate and yet the love and life that persists despite it all. Death and failure and then in the end there is healing. I was expecting th
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