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A River Runs Through It Response #3
Norman Mclean wrote a story that is considered by many to be his "fictional autobiography." A River Runs Through It is a novella Mclean wrote in order to deal with the death of his sibling Paul and his experiences within his own family and life. What is interesting as a reader is that it is hard to get the sense of where reality ends and fiction begins in this elegantly written story of family life and the importance fishing and nature played throughout Mclean's.
As it is hard to decipher what is fiction and what is reality in this short novel, it can be difficult to understand what some of Mclean's intents and purposes are within his story. A passage can be very simple in phrasing and full of purpose, yet hard to understand what exactly Mclean could mean by it at points. On page 63 of his story, Mclean writes, "It was here, while waiting for my brother, that I started this story, although, of course, at the time I did not know that stories......
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