Titanium

Dear Hemmingway,

How does it feel? You know, to be dead? Well life goes on in the world without you. You have become somewhat of a hero, an idol, everyone everywhere knows who you are. The call you an American Writer, one of the best writers ever to live, they simply adore you. I on the other hand I know the truth; you are not the greatest writer or the American writer. You are nothing but an armature writer passing himself off as a professional. I think that even you knew that and that is one of the reasons as to why you killed yourself. To give you some credit though you did know how to use words and capture emotion without expressing it but I think that your simpler way of writing was a cover for the fact that you can’t write a more complicated story. You have obviously influenced many people in the world sadly I am not one of them. I think that you do give some kind of hope from your books even if it was unintentional. On to other topics, suicide, well that was dumb. I don’t think you realized how stupid that was, you could have been an excellent writer I think but you killed yourself before you could. When does killing yourself ever solve anything? Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. If you really did have all this brain power and were such a great writer you would have been able to see what happens to others when someone kills themselves. The same old thing happens again and again. You hurt others more then you hurt yourselves. So I think that you are selfish also but hey I bet you don’t really care what I think about you, you have hundreds of others waiting to kiss your robes so to say.

Wendell Van Cleave

P.S. you won’t be hearing from me again

The American man is brave, no matter what the case. I think that the american man is always curagous because we seem to rise to the occasion. The american man is loyal, he will follow his country right or wrong. I also think that the american man is intelligent and can figure out what he needs to and spend the time to find the answers to his questions.

I am currently on page 48 in my story. Anyway so I am continuing to write on my story and I have completed 3 chapters and I am working on the fourth. I am also trying to find a new name for my story or (short book). I decided that I don’t enjoy the name Taris and The Elves so if anyone has any ideas it is a story about elves in particular one elf that has many adventures. I will update this again in probably ten more pages unless I get a new name and then I will post that here.

My initial reaction on reaching the finish of the book was thats it? I felt that it just kind of ended even though there was more that could have been said. I felt that it is almost a sad ending also because I get the impression that the man will not live much longer. I think that the boy is deeply saddened by seeing the man home again in such a terrible condition. I also think that he has realized how little time they really have left together.

As the boy went out the door and down the worn coral rock road he was crying again.

I think that the boy is having many different emotions at the moment he is going through the joy that the man is back, the sorrow at the mans condition, and the extremely short time that is left to them. He is also dealing with the fact that even though the man caught a huge fish he wasn’t able to return with it and the is making him greive for the old man also.

Some final questions I have about the book are…

I don’t understand was the fish a fish or a shark? Why didn’t the old man want the fish head? I don’t understand for sure why the boy continues to cry either I mean the man is home now.

I think that it is symbolic that the search parties were out looking for him and that is most likely what the plane was that he saw. I also think that the fish itself was a symbol and that it stood for everything the man was. Now that the fish is dead the man really has nothing else to live for and he is constantly saddened and reminded of the fish everytime he goes fishing or talks to a fishermen.

I think that the old man will find a way to get the fish on to land. Even though land is very far away. The old man does not so much fear the shark as he does respect the one that he killed. He is afraid for the fish not his own life. I think he calls the marlin fish because that is what he is, he isn’t going to name it because that would be stupid and he doesn’t call him marlin because that would be an understatement. So he calls him fish as if he isn’t just a fish but he is the fish. The old man doesn’t use better technology because there isn’t any better technology. The old man wishes he had never caught the fish because he has realized that the sharks have a very real possibility of eating the fish. He also wishes that because he realizes that no one is worthy of eating this fish, so he wishes he didn’t catch it because it was such a great fish that it deserved to live and grow even bigger. I think that the boy will be waiting for the man at home though no one else will be. I think that everyone will say he is dead but the boy will not believe it.

In this section that we just read I found it very interesting. I have many questions about what is going on right now in the book. I don’t understand what the argument was about when he was fighting with himself about putting the oars out. I don’t understand why he didn’t, and I don’t understand why he had wanted to in the first place.

It is to dangerous to rig the oars as a drag if you must sleep.

I did like the fact that he is finally starting to see the fish change its actions. I think that we will soon read that he finally lands the fish to find himself out in the middle of nowhere. I think that in the very near future he will have to deal with the fact of getting the fish home.