The Nobelprize winning book: The old man and the sea, has been written by Ernest Hemingway and was published in 1982, though the original American print had been published in 1952. The title is exactly what the book is about. It is a short story. The story is written in one continuous whole and is written from the view of the writer, it is very realistic. The description of the setting are the dominating factor in this book. The author spends a lot of time, for describing the sea, and what takes place. There are a lot of dialogues in the book. Example:
             "I thanked him already," the boy said.
             "I'll give him the belly meat of a big fish," the old man said. "Has he done this for us more than once?"
             "I must give him something more than the belly meat then. He is very thoughtful for us."
             The next fragment I find really representative for the whole book, because it is a fragment in which the old man is talking to himself, like he does all the time, and he is saying how great the fish is, which he does quite a few times too.
             "He is a great fish and I must convince him, he
             thought. I must never let him learn his strength
             nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were
             him I would put in everything now and go until
             something broke. But, thank God, they are not as
             intelligent as who kill them; although they are
             The book is about an old man, who goes out fishing (his profession, not as a sport) one day. He decides to go really far out, before the sun comes up. Then one of his lines goes under, and he hooks the fish. But the fish is so strong, that he can't pull him up. The old man thinks that if he lets the fish pull his boat, a sailing-boat the size of a rowing-boat, the fish will go out of strength and die soon.
             But it's a very very strong fish and he keeps pulling for a day and a
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