Extended reading read the introduction to earnest hemingway and his novel the old man and the sea, then read the excerpt from the . novel the old man and the sea excerpt earnest hemingway eighteen ninety nine, nineteen sixty one, an american writer of novels and short stories, is well thought of for his unique writing style. He is extremely good at describing the adventures of tough men, who he believes can be destroyed but not defeated. The old man and the sea, one of his most important novels, tells the story of a Fisherman named some tiago. After coming an empty handed for eighty four days, santiago attempts to catch a huge fish. The fish was coming in on his circle now, calm and beautiful looking, and only his great tail moving. The old man pulled on him already could to bring him closer for just a moment. The fish turned a little on his side. Then he straightened himself and began another circle. I moved him. The old man said, I moved him. Then he felt faith again now, but he held on the great fish, all the strain that he could. I moved him. He thought, maybe this time I can get him over paul hands. He thought, hold up. Legs last for me. Head last for me. You never went this time i'll pull him over. But when he put all of his effort on starting IT well up before the fish came along side and pulling with all his strength, the fish pulled park way over and then ride himself and swam away. Fish, the old man said, fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too? That way nothing is accomplished. He thought his mouth was too dry to speak, but he could not reach for the water. Now I must get him alongside this time. He thought, I am not good for many more turns. Yes, you are. He told himself you're good forever. On the next term, he nearly had him. But again, the fish writed himself and swam slowly away. You are killing me, fish, the old man thought, but you have a right to never have I seen a greater or more beautiful or a comer or more noble thing than you. Brother, come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who. Now you are getting confused in the head. He thought you must keep your head clear, keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man or a fish. He thought clear up. Had he said in a voice he could hardly hear, clear up twice more, IT was the same on the turns. I do not know. The old man thought he had been on the point of feeling himself go each time. I do not know, but I will try that once more. He tried IT once more, and he felt himself going when he turned the fish. The fish ride himself and swam off again slowly with the great tail weeding in the air. I'll try IT again, the old man promised. Although his hands were mushy now and he could only see well in flashes, he tried IT again and IT was the same, so he thought, and he felt himself going before he started. I will try IT once again.