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1) Which passage appears to be the most significant and why?

2) I'm looking for a really good discussion question and an answer that I can contemplate further.

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Hemingway's The Big Two Hearted River is briefly explicated in terms of theme and styles.

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1) As you choose some poignant passages, I cannot choose merely one. I like this quote, "He felt he had left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs. It was all back of him." It seems, to me, his recovery emotionally from the scars of the war and the turmoil that he is slowly healing from within his life. Does ...

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