Sharks are unfairly depicted in these three “shark week” reading selections: the excerpts from The Old Man and the Sea, Unbroken, and the poem “The Shark”. In the selections the sharks are described as murderous, malicious, and fierce, which is not in their true nature. I have done research to prove that sharks are not fairly depicted in the literature selections. In Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, sharks are portrayed as murderous when “The shark closed fast astern and when he hit the fish the old man saw his mouth open and his strange eyes and the clicking chops of his teeth as he drove forward in the meat just above the tail.” (lines x-x.) I discovered from the website, Discovery Education, that even though the shark went in for the
