Book Review-
The Old Man and the Sea
Straight from the book –
‘I’d like to buy some luck if there’s any place they sell it, ’
What could I buy it with? He asked himself. Could I buy it with a lost
harpoon and a broken knife and two bad hands?
On my way to home, I broke my journey at Gurgaon. Happily bunked
into my friends’ place for a night and smartly flipped a book lying on their sofa, while making a hasty move in the morning.
Talking about the book, it’s a short story. Thin, with a big
font size. You can safely invest 6 hours in it and get in return, enlightenment
of sorts. It revolves around one character, the Old Man; how he is alone but
never lonely. Thus, pick it up for a
read, whenever you have a long journey alone, lined up in near future.
He sets on a journey with no companion, by choice. Into the
sea he oars, far outside his zone of comfort. He rediscovers his passion of talking to himself,
loud and clear. He was born to be a fisherman, he reminds himself. Thus, a
fisherman must do his job well. Indeed he does. He gets into fights with
sharks, spearfish and dolphins. But, is the fight worth it, at the cost of the
bleeding and pain they all suffer, he reflects. Along the way, he misses his
young friend for help. He returns safe or does he?
As you read you will notice that your pace of reading
modulates automatically with the sequence of events, mark of any good book (..or
reader? not sure.). There is impulsive turn of events in no time. Your
expectations keep changing along the way and the book meets all of it, in the
end. Lets talk again when you have read it!
By the way, this book made Mr. Hemingway bag the Nobel Prize
in 1954.
Happy Reading
Shivansh
