I want to grow old by reading books by such authors. This is my first book by the author and I am sure that it can never be the last book, by him, that I would be reading. The book is nothing short of a masterpiece which represents every man's journey through struggles and failures and endless grief but at the same time shows the undaunting confidence a man can have instead to build a resilience against any Sturm and Drang! Ernest paints on the canvas of this book. To say more about the book would only purloin and plunder the magic of words that Mr. Yet, the old man tries everyday to catch fish! In spite of people calling him a salao ( a worst form of unlucky!) So unlucky was he, that his only companion, a boy, is asked by his parents to go in another boat. The story begins with the old man being shown as unlucky in catching any fish for a long streak of 84 days.
Can we all become that very same man in our journey?
Life is a big sea and we are sailing across it on a skiff, our own little skiff, to become an old man with the passage of time!īut can we all become the old man of Ernest Hemmingway's book "The Old Man and the Sea"?Ī man can be destroyed but not defeated, says the old man, the man who is dispossessed of his youthful strength, who is wrinkled to the last skin, who is alone on the treacherous sea and who fights off the multitudes of sharks that come to loot his big catch. A scene from the play 'Hatya Ek Aakar Ki' staged at Ravindra Manch in Jaipur.