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ElizabethScarlet

25 мая 2014 г., 15:49:16 (9 лет назад)

My Favorite Book "The Old Man and the Sea"

My favorite book is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. This story is one of the well-known works of the writer. The author depicts the characters of the old man and the boy and their relations very vividly and skillfully. Santiago, the old man, was one of the writer's beloved characters. The old man was a born fisherman, but he was not a butcher and fished only for a living. He was very lonely. He had a devoted friend - the boy, Manolin. The boy loved the old man for his kind heart, his devotion to the sea. Manolin was like a son to Santiago. He took care of the old man's food and his belongings.

The old man was glad to pass his experience to the boy. He looked forward to going to the sea together with the boy.

All Santiago's life had been in preparation for the battle with big fish. He knew that he had been born for this and it was time to prove it. A strong man at last had met a strong fish. The battle was a difficult one and full of danger.

Though the sharks had eaten the fish and nothing had left but the backbone, the old man had morally won the battle. Santiago's words "man can be destroyed but not defeated" are the main idea of this story.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is a masterpiece for its imaginative language and the description of nature.

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Taraskondrat

25 мая 2014 г., 18:11:59 (9 лет назад)

My Favorite Book
My favorite book is one of the most famous novels in world literature, Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment from 1866. It is a stressful tale about one man’s attempt to escape the implication of a single terrible act of murder.

Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov - known as Rodya - is a handsome young student who, in an attempt to save his sister Dounia from marrying just to provide for him, kills a careless sixty-year old pawnbroker with a porter’s axe. During the killing, her sister Lizaveta enters and he murders her too, burying the spoils.

The story follows Rodya as he tries to avoid detection at a police summons (he faints) and, while another man, Nikolay, the painter, is accused. Various other characters come into the equation, such as Rodya’s student friend Razumihin, who fears his mental collapse and Zametov, the police clerk who is mistrustful of the fainting incident. Episodes that follow, include Rodya’s return to the department of investigation under Porfiry Petrovitch, who tries to trap him psychologically, and later makes a conversation with him, using an individual approach, on the criminal mind.

I fear for Rodya and his indefensible situation especially after his family receives something of a small fortune from Svidrigailov. Into this fight of strange circumstances comes Sonia - a pale girl from the streets - to whom Rodya confesses his crime. It is then a question of whether he should give himself up and if Dounia will forgive his act of foolishness. The path of Rodya’s life leads through these adventures to an acceptance of religion over individualism (even some kind of egoism).

Of course, it is actually hard to read this kind of books, however not all the things in our life are going so well – there are also the bad edges of it: dreadfully realistic and tragedy like. I recommend this novel to the people, who have “an opened eyes vision on the world’s life”, who are not frightened of considering poor existence of many people on the Earth.