Book Report

I am also writing book reports about the books I  have read.

Book Report #1

- This book report was written about a modern classic book name 'The old man and the sea'.
- It is written in letter form. Manolin is writing to his friend about the Old man. The Old man was Manolin's coach/teacher. But now Manolin is learning from someone else. Let's see why he changed his coach/teacher.

Dear Jake,

                   Hi! Sorry for the extremely late reply. I was so busy these days that I didn’t had time to sit and write a letter. Everything is normal and the sun comes out and sets as usual. I found out that in the very last letter, you asked me how was the old man and what happened with him. Well, not everything went well with him and I.

 The Old man is very nice to me and treats me as if I am his own son. He shows so much affection to me. Everything went well till some months before. I learnt so much fishing skills from him; he is such a good fisher. I am sure that he is the best fisher in this whole village. But till now he couldn’t catch a single fish!! I don’t know what is happening. I am pretty sure he has been starving for these last 84 days. Maybe the ocean waves are not cooperating with his boat.  Because of his lacking results, that is the reason why my parents thought the Old man was not a good coach for me.  They found another fisherman for me to learn. But I don’t like this new man. He is pretty young not like the Old man. He catches fishes a lot but I don’t really like him like how I liked and respected the Old man.

 But I have to obey my parents so I am still learning from this new fisherman. But I couldn’t just leave Old man alone. He helped me so much and gave me so much knowledge. I just couldn’t leave him alone like that starving. I just respected him so much and I thought just forgetting the Old man is not a right thing to do. So I have been helping the Old man these 84 days, now is 85 days. I gave him beer, and food to eat. He always says I help him too much and he really wants to thank me for it. But I don’t get the point. He shouldn’t be thankful for whatever I am doing right now. I am supposed to do it. He helped me so much before and gave me so much knowledge about fishing. I am doing this because of what I owe to him but I am also doing this because I have so much affection to him. I still can remember how the Old man treated me. Just like how my dad treats me. The Old man treats me as if I am his son. I just have so much affection and respect for him. I just have to help him.  I hope the Old man will understand that later when time passes.

 I don’t like what I am doing right now. I know that I should be grateful for it, but I just can’t help it. I don’t like this new coach. I can’t feel any respect for him like the Old man. The Old man always made sure that I feel like I am a professional fisher. I just loved that feeling when he said I am a real fisher just like the others. It always made me more confident when I tried catching fishes. But this new fisher just tells me what to do and that’s it. I really want to go back to the Old man. I missed how we talked when we were out in the ocean. How we chatted and how we helped each other catching fish. I tried convincing my parents but they just don’t get it.

 If you ask me what I like about the Old man, I like every single thing about him. I like the way in which he treats me like his son. He shows so much affection and love to me.  I like the way that he tries to be happy also when everything looks wrong. I thought he would be depressed and upset when he couldn’t catch any fish yesterday. But he said that the ocean was not in a good mood today so he couldn’t expect any good news from her. He says the ocean can’t do anything with her mood just like humans. How creative of him!!! And he always pretends that he still has food and fish in his house. The Old man and I always pretend that the old man still has his own food and still caught good fish. This is only possible for us because I respect and love the Old man so much that I want him to be happy. I really want to go fishing with the Old man not the new fisher.

 So this is how everything is going right now here. From next time I will try to write earlier. Sorry if you were impatient or worried.  Bye~

Your best buddy,

Mandlin

P.S. How is it going there? Are your friends still mad at you? Hope you will reply.

** I will be writing more book reports. It may be in different form. **