A common question students are asked after reading a classic novel is why do we still read this if it was written thirty thousand hundred million years ago? What is SOO timeless and important about these books written when my great great great grandpa was alive? To be honest these books are boring and they aren't as good as people make them up to be if you ask me. However, they do have some better lessons in them compared to the books kids read now a days like the private series which is about murder drugs and lying. The Old Man and the Sea actually did have an important message that Hemmingway wanted to send out to his readers. The book was short so there was not much to it. It was a book that was easy to comprehend and a quick somewhat fun read. It was much much better than Life of Pi or Great Expectations. Those books were literally awful.
Enough with the ramballing. The Old Man and the Sea had a cliche every teacher and parent tells you this and you believe it when your young message to it. It was the same as the theme of the book, Never give up, you can do anything that you set your mind to, You get out of life what you put in. However Hemmingway shows you these timeless everyone hears this all the time it gets really boring message in a completely different way. He shows you this through someone who has lived their whole entire life and could easily be a vegetable and just sit at home but he goes out day after day after day and tries to catch his fish(Hemingway 2). And after all this time he finally catches the biggest fish around and is finally after all of this time he has spent with this young man fishing and not catching a thing he finally gets one. It is timeless because at any point in time since god created heaven and earth you should never give up.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.
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