(I have no idea why this blog is double spaced... because I typed it on blogger like I did all of my other ones...? I'm sorry, but I can't figure out how to fix it.)
I thought that the book, The Old Man and the Sea, was a really easy book to understand, but there was one topic that I really did not get. It was the lions on the beach. Ernest Hemingway referenced the lions sleeping on the beach many times and I do not think that I ever came to an understanding on why he included that into this book. I do recognize the fact that the old man associates the lions with his youth, but I have no idea why they were included three times in the novella. I hope that by not understanding this that I did not miss anything too huge in the book, but that was the only thing that I was really clueless about. Maybe I would have known if I had gone to the online book chat, but of course, I forgot when it was and that night passed by without me even thinking about it. I guess I really do not get it because he is dreaming about the lions on the beach of Africa, but the story takes place in Cuba and it ever talked about him going to Africa and seeing lions on the beach. Do lions even go on the beach? Well I have never heard of there being any lions on the beach anywhere. I have never been to Africa, but I have seen quite a few pictures of African lions and none of them have ever been of lions on the beach. I wonder what made Mr. Hemingway make the old man dream about lions. Why didn't he dream of a different animal like monkeys or elephants. I probably have missed something really important in the story, but I guess my brain simply does not have any ideas about why there are lions in a book about an old man that lives in a fishing town in Cuba. Santiago has not actually seen any lions in the book, so I do not know why we would have dreams about the especially sleeping on the beach.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.
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