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the old fisherman has caught a very big fish and is now patiently waiting that it becomes exhausted and it comes to the surface of the sea so that he can kill it with his harpoon it was dark now as it becomes dark quickly after the sun sets in September the fisherman restled all that he could against the wood of his boat. He did not know the name of the star but he saw it and knew they would all be out soon “The fish is my friend too” he said aloud “I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we must not kill the stars then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. then he rested for two hours the moon did not rise now until late and he dad no way of judging the time. “But you have not slept, old man” he said aloud “It is two days and you have not slept you must find a way so that you can sleep a little if he is quiet and steady. If you do not sleep you can become unclear in the head” “ iam clear enough in the head” he thought, “too clear, as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep”. they sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes

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**The Old Man and the Sea**

Author	Ernest Hemingway
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	tragedy
Publisher	Charles Scribner's Sons
Released	September 8, 1952
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback)
ISBN	ISBN 978-0-684-80122-3

The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Though it has been the subject of disparate criticism, it is noteworthy in twentieth century fiction and in Hemingway's canon, reaffirming his worldwide literary prominence and significant in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.