Hemingway: Big Two-Hearted River

Nick returns from the war to his severed hometown

• "Nick looked at the burnt over stretch of hillside where he had expected to
• find the scattered houses of the town..."

Big Two-hearted River

• "Far off the left was the line of the river. Nick followed it with his eye 
• and caught glints of the water in the sun."

The climbing road

• "The road ran on, dipping occasionally, but always climbing."

Grasshoppers covered in black soot

• "They were all black."
• "Who knows how long they would stay that way."