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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 beset Morgan in this book. It is a dramatic peice of fiction that deals with trhe issue of a mans choice bettween killing or let 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 matewho he calls a certian leger 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 inthe 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 gallop him a thousand a peice he tells them he cant take them. The big one starts to get angry with him. He threatens to slit Harrys throat and whencehe calms down. Harry tells them no and finially they head twoard the door. As they walked out(p) 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 remarkable 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 buisness 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 fo r him. He also wants harry to carry some men for him. Harry agrees and takes the two hundred dollars.