To Have and Have Not

My book is "To have and have not" by Ernest Hemingway. He is by far my

favorite author, he is a bit racist though. He tells the story of Harry Morgan in

this book. It is a dramatic piece
of fiction that deals with trhe issue of a mans

choice bettween killing or letting his family starve. He does everything in his

to feed his family. He begins rum-running bettween Cuba and Key West. That

is the reason that his boat gets seized by the Coast Guard. He has this ship mate

who he calls a certain
word over and over. It is sad that life is so hard for him.

In part one Harry Morgan is running a fishing charter operation. He is in

the bar waiting for the charter to arrive. He is approached by 3 cubans who

speak good english. They talk and they ask him to take them some where I think

Cuba. They offer him a thousand a piece
he tells them he cannot
take them. The

big one starts to get angry with him. He threatens to slit Harry's throat and then

he calms down. Harry tells them no and finially they head twoard the door. As

they walked out the door a closed car drove up and had a shoot out with them

they all were killed. Harry went down to the docks to wait at his boat for the

charter but they were already on board. The charterer was a guy named Johnson

and he brought a rummy along with him. Harry takes them fishing and they lose

his equipment. When the next mourning comes Johnson is nowhere to be seen

he skips oput on paying Morgan for the equipment or the bill.

This is where the

plot complicates you see he now has no fishing business
so he has to find

another way to feed his family. So he does odd jobs here and there. He meets

up with a man called Mr. Sing. He was a chink. He wanted Harry to transport

something for him. He also wants harry to carry some men for him. Harry

agrees and takes the two hundred dollars. They agree on a place and time to

meet. Harry Morgan goes... [continues]

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