A review by anastasiyak
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

4.0

the first time i read this book in middle school i was way too young to appreciate it. i remember that whenever someone asked me how i like it, i would complain about how it was just 90 pages of a man fishing who was being pulled by a fish. (i dont even know that i realized how it ended). this second time around it really had me. first of all, the writing was simply beautiful, so simple yet descriptive at the same time. it was also a really good reminder of not giving up, and the ability of people to still have courage even when everything is failing. i wish i was half as strong as this old man.