Dear Mr. Hemingway,
Like William Shakespeare, you are a legend. You are now taught to over a million students in the 11th grade. Although your books can get rather boring and very blah, they have a bigger picture to them. They have more symbols linking to the real world than I first realized. Some of the things that you have written have been very inspiring to the world. If you are the philosophical type, you tend to think very hard and very deep about a lot of the book. Even the littlest things can mean the largest things in life.
I think you suicide was maybe not the best thing. If you could have decided to live longer, and put some of your books in a current era, they would have made more sense and had an even greater effect on the world. Because you have the intelligence and the wisdom, you could have made your books relate to a lot more people and people would have actually liked your updated books. When you took your life, you continued to make a name for yourself.
I comment on you because our eleventh grade English class just finished on one of your books, The Old Man and the Sea. Your book had a lot that related to my life and some awesome analogies that really made me look at my life as a whole, differently. Some think of you as the greatest travel writer since Homer. But I look at you as just another man that wrote a book.
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