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        <title><![CDATA[What are the psychological implications of the story's last sentence?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the psychological implications of the story's last sentence? &quot;There were plenty of days coming when he could fish the swamp.&quot;]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nick's Character]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>What does Nick have in common with other Hemingway heroes?</p>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:14:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The answer to the last question answered both questions! It was a very...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The answer to the last question answered both questions! It was a very good answer and made me understand this story alot more.  thanks Mr. don-anderson.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:57:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How would you describe the story's use of symbols and how they...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How would you describe the story's use of symbols and how they contribute to a reader's understanding of its theme?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:38:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hemingway communicates his theme in “Big Two-Hearted River” by...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hemingway communicates his theme in “Big Two-Hearted River” by paralleling and contrasting Nick Adams experience in World War I with his homecoming to Seney, Michigan. Upon arriving at the burned over town, Nick is in a place much like that of the battlefields of WWI. Seney is burned over so that no building is left standing and even the foundation stones of the Mansion Hotel are cracked. Hemingway does not directly recount Nick’s war...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:49:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[in essence, this story is about a soldier's return to nature as a means...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[in essence, this story is about a soldier's return to nature as a means of recovering from the trauma and disillusionment of the first modern war (WWI).  nature has a healing effect for nick, whose experiences camping and fishing serve as a metaphor (and means) of his healing.  a freudian/psychoanalytic theory best explains the fish in the stream as the memories nick has repressed, as nick seems to have a fascination with the fish.

the effect...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:53:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the theme of “Big Two Hearted River” and how is it...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the theme of “Big Two Hearted River” and how is it communicated?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:16:22 PST</pubDate>
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