Two Big Hearted River
Of the stories on the syllabus the one that I most closely related to was "The Big Two-Hearted River" by Earnest Hemmingway. During my first reading of this story it was the setting and the action of the main character Nick Adams that I connected with.
Reading the opening sentences, grand visions of my childhood danced through my head. The story took me back to happy times of summers spent alone with my grandfather in the mountains of West Virginia. Like Nick, the camping and fishing trips were a welcomed relief from the city life and school for me. Although we were in a different area of the country the wilderness seems to be the same. Like Nick I remembered being dropped off near the edge of the wilderness to hike in and go camping near the river. "The river just showed through the trees" (Hemingway 480). As with the main character the river always intrigued me as a child. It was many things such as the smell, the sound, and the being apart of nature that I liked.......
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