I don't think I grasped the point of this book, it's theme or why it's such a celebrated book. What I can grasp is that, I enjoy Hemingway's writing style and the way he describes the sea. 
 Hemingway uses sparse, simple words, and simple passages to reflect on Santiago's journey. Very clean, very nice, very simple. I don't think I know another writer that can use this method so beautifully, and if anything the Old Man and the Sea is all language. I love the language, the quotes about flying fish, about what it means to be a man. But I don't understand the climax, how the ending seems to be anti-climatic, and almost pointless. 
 Perhaps I'll go back in years later and see what I've missed out as a youth.