When “finishing the old man” I was a little upset. The book started out so slow and I was not very interested with it. Now all of a sudden you find yourself rooting for that old man to make it back with the fish and with everything he worked so hard for and suffered for.

The poor old man cut his hands, cut his cheek, went with little food and water, and also went with almost no sleep. The debate was about him being crazy but I don’t think so at all. He was poor and alone and he got by with what he had and tried to make the best of it. He probably did a lot better then what most of us would have done. I bet most of us would have said forget it. Its just a fish.

I would like to know how his wife died and what the boy is to him and if hes going to get “lucky” again. This seems like a book that needs a part two. I don’t like were they left off on it but thats not too bad as long as the old man made it home alive. That was one of the biggest questions I think I had.

One thing that stands out to me was the “shark bones”. The tourists note how beautiful of a tail it had. Now they refer to it as “garbage”.

“Whats that?” She asked a waiter and pointed to the long backbone of the great fish that was now just garbage waiting to go out with the tide.

“Tiburon,” the waiter said. “Eshark.” He was meaning to explain what had happened.

“I didn’t know sharks had such handsome, beautifully formed tails.”

“I didn’t either,” her male companion said. (126-127)

It indeed was not a shark at all it was the fish. The great brother of the old man. The fish seemed deeply respected the whole way through the book and now it just lays in the tide waiting for it to be taken out just like garbage. Its funny how they call it a shark but they can still see beauty in it. Now are they saying, Even in death the massive fish still remain as beautiful as he did when he was alive or is it a sort of a pun?