In AP in English we just read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway.  This novel was short but mighty with all the emotion involved. If there was not any emotion involved the book would have been very short and boring. Ernest put his own point of view throughout book in a very subtle way.

Other than that the plot was great. Plot Summary of The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of an epic battle between an aging, experienced fisherman named Santiago, and an eighteen foot long marlin. The story opens with Santiago having been gone eighty-four days without catching a fish and him talking about his unlucky streak.  Santiago has a young friend named Manolin. This young boy was on the fishing boat with Santiago but his parents wanted the boy on a more successful boat since the old man had gone eighty-four days without a fish.   The boy still continues to visit and help out the old man.

The old man tells the young boy about his plans to go farther out to sea to fish because he feels like his unlucky streak is near end. The next day he just goes ahead and does it. He went out to sea with this large fish for three days and he finally caught him.

The book seems like it would be boring and that it is just about an old guy fishing. Instead you get more, a lot more. You get an epic battle between a once great fisherman and this large fish, but something tragic happens leaving him with nothing. You get emotion and powerful feelings all within one hundred and twenty seven pages.

I would recommend this book to anyone. I loved it and it made a great story