... of The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and other novels and short stories, once said, ”All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are ... feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.” On the lines ... So when you read, digest each word and sentence (and paragraph and chapter that follows) to help you form pictures and opinions about the characters, settings, and themes in the work On a separate...