The end of the book is here and I am so happy! Our first book is out of the way and it wasn’t even that bad. It had its moments where is was blah… but other than that it was good. On Family Guy, I saw Peter reading the book because he was going on a cruise and so I was like, “Oh my gosh… Mom! Look at the book he’s reading! We are reading the same one in English 11!” I had a merry ole’ time just sitting and staring. Ok, on to more important things! So at the end of this book, the old man gets home and just passes out on his bed, I would totally do the same thing after a time like that. The whole trip still would have been boring though…
So some questions I still have, is the old man tired from keeping the fish on the line, or waiting to make sure that no sharks ate anymore of it, or did the sharks tire him out? And what about the bone spurs? Why is he so obsessed with them? If the old man could, would he be Joe Dimaggio?
Just some food for thought there.
Symbolicly, I see an old man fighting hard f0r this fish and I can’t help but think of someone fighting for their life in a battle of cancer. They must have the mentality that they want it bad enough but their not sure that it is going to happen for them.
“Unless sharks come,” he said aloud. “If sharks come, God pity him and me.”
What this quote has to do with the point that I was previously making, the sharks are like the cancer cells, and him refurs to kemo and me is obviously the person with cancer. You never tend to think about thinks this deeply until you have an expiration date posted on your forehead. Then it feels like you have nothing left.
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