Hemingway: Big Two-Hearter River

Human vs. Harmony
<Tab/>In his collection "In Our Time" Hemingway deals with the problem of war. A senseless act of human cruelty, it can be dangerous enough to ruin what the human civilization has been creating and accumulating throughout the centuries for a month, a week, even a couple of days. In "Big Two-Hearted River," however, the author emphasizes on the fact that there is still one thing that unlike all temporary human creations could resist time innocent and respectful--the eternal nature. Nick, the main character in the short story, who has faced the human attempts…