Review: The Old Man and the Sea + Tales of Greed

Hi! Posting after a loooong time. Hope y'all are doing great. Recently I've finished reading Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' and it was such an exciting yet calm and a good read. I'll share some of my thoughts on this book. Also, I'll review the webtoon 'Tales of Greed' which I randomly chose to read but turned out to be pretty interesting. (Pardon me for reviewing a webtoon with a Nobel winning classic. Such a terrible match :') ). Here you go–

The Old Man and The Sea

Santiago, the old fisherman, went out in the sea after 84 consecutive days of fishless fishing. He caught the biggest fish in his life after fighting with it for some restless three days but by the time he reached the shore, there was nothing left of the fish but its huge skeleton.

The book is mostly about the old man's principles and philosophy. He is a man of dignity but his dignity doesn't take over his humility. He is too stubborn to give up but his ambition doesn't blind him since he knows how much of what he is doing is right and how much of it is wrong. Respecting the way of nature, he plays his role as the predator without looking down on the prey– which reflects well in his conversation with the big marlin he caught.

Had the old man been able to bring the whole fish to the shore, people would have applauded him, made this into a success story with the moral "patience and hard work pays off at the end". But with the orginal ending, the moral is more like–patience and hard work may or may not pay off at the end but the glory of them alone is no less than that of success. Even if others can't see it.

Tales of Greed

This webtoon consists of 7 stories in each of which the protagonist suddenly finds an item with a superpower and keeps abusing it until something goes wrong. Except for one story, all other stories' protagonists have the history of being bullied and the story unfolds in a way that shows the irony of a prey's turing into the predator they wanted to run from. In total, the webtoon has 39 episodes, story by Kim Juin and art by Park Taejun (creator of Lookism).

How the Nuclear Tests Destroyed the Lives of Innocent Islanders

Bikini Atoll The other day I was reading the story 'othoi shagor' of 'Tin goyenda' again after almost 8 years and learned about an interesting historical reference which I had completely ignored the first time I read it. Today I'm sharing that with you. After World War 2, during the cold war between the United States and Russia, the U.S.A. conducted some consecutive nuclear tests on different islands and atolls in the Marshall islands (the testing sites were given the name– Pacific Proving Grounds). These tests continued for 12 years starting from 1946, to show the world how much power they had. According to the document, 105 nuclear tests were conducted in total. The first explosion took place at Bikini Atoll on 1July, 1946. (Atolls are ring-shaped coral islands.) Marshall Islands is situated in the South Sea of Pacific Ocean and it consists of many small islands and atolls. The atolls consist of smaller islands. In the mainland of the Bikini atoll, lived 167 ...

An Excerpt from My Karate Journey!

One of the new things that has been added to my life this year is Karate. I had always been interested in learning some kind of martial art, so finally starting to learn karate was like a dream-come-true to me. Recently I've been promoted to yellow belt from white (belt ranking starts from white and gradually climbes up to yellow, orange, green etc.). Today I'd like to share with you some thoughts regarding my karate journey. First, let me tell you about our karate dojo (where karate is taught). Honestly, I've never been to a place full of so much positive energy before. No negativity, only hard work and learning. I think it's wonderful that we willingly keep coming to the place which keeps giving us tough time every week. I doubt even 1% of this willingness is present when it comes to going to school. Another different thing about this place is– here age doesn't make you junior or senior, your skill does. Often we learn from someone who is much younger than us and ...

Last Page of This Journal

I was reading the first blog of this site while smiling like a parent smiles at his/her excited child. How excited I was about this 'kingdom' of mine that I was building. This actually was my happy place, a place I could express myself although I think I could do better in doing so. It's been almost 4 years since I first wrote here and now that I look back, I feel like a totally new person. I'm glad I'm no longer as perfectionist and fearful of embarrassment as before, but I miss the desire I used to have to thrive for the better. Well, I'm still cluess about how my attitude towards life should be. I didn't have a plan to continue writing in this blogsite anymore, so I thought I'd better say final goodbye to this so called "Journal of My Journey" at the final hours of 2024. People are going berserk outside with their fireworks for no reason. What I'm writing is not entirely registering in my head. I do intend to continue writing on anothe...

Journal of My Journey

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