A Journey to the Center of the Earth

Plot Summary: Professor Hardwigg yells excitedly to Harry. Harry ran to the professor to find him sitting in front of a very old looking book, with yellowed pages and hand-made cover. Harry is starving, but forgets about it over the strange excitement. Harry asks Professor Hardwigg what all of the excitement is over so he explains: The book is an old Icelandic book written by Heims-Kringla, a very brilliant author from the twelfth century. Harry …

…to follow language, yet Hemmingway was still able to put unbelievable images of picturesque settings in the reader's mind. There is also an interesting use of dialog, not only between the boy and the old man, but especially with the old man talking to himself. Comment: I liked the book because it is about the hard existence of the man fighting against his destiny, conditioned by the social and cultural structures that mark his life.