Matilda

Book Report

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Titel: To Have And Have Not

Publishing House: Scribner

Summary:

Harry Morgan lives at Key West with his wife Marie and his three daughters. He makes money in Havana by throwing fishing-parties or by smuggling with his boat. The only thing he doesn’t want to smuggle are people. But one day a man, who paid Harry to go out and fish with his boat, brakes a very expensive rod. The man says he will pay the rod and the costs for hiring the boat the next day. Harry trusts him but the next day the man leaves with a plane without paying.

Harry is broke and because he wants to have an income to support his wife and children he decides to carry chinese workers to Forida. During the trip Harry thinks Mr. Sing, the man who offers him this job, is going to murder the other twelfe chinese men. He kills Mr. Sing and sets the chinese men free.

A few months later, during another job, Harry and Wesley, a bad treated nigger, got under fire. Wesley was shot in his leg and becomes insane and Harry loses his arm. Meanwhile a party-boat with some important businessmen came in close. They discovered that Harry was doing something illegal and his boat got confiscated.

After doing some low-paid jobs Harry decides to go on with some illegal jobs. He starts with stealing his own boat but soon the authorities find out where he has hidden it. Luckily they couldn’t proove that it wasHarry who stole it. Eventually Harry can borrow a boat from Freddy, the local bartender.

While he is preparing the boat together with another friend named Albert, four armed criminals run out of a bank. Those four Cuban criminals made Harry and Albert start