This book takes place in the past and is about an old man that loves fishing in the Gulf Stream. The old man was a thin with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck and had scars on his hands from handling the fishing rope. He taught this young boy how to fish and the boy loved him. He even brought him fishing many times. But the past 84 days the old man had not …showed first 75 words of 728 total…

…showed last 75 words of 728 total…and eat the rest of his fish, leaving just the head and scales of the enormous fish he had. When he was back at the dock, he just got off the boat and went right into his house and fell asleep. Everyone was so amazed by the fish he caught even though nothing was left of it. The boy told the old man to rest and get better and he would fish with him again.