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Sometimes we’d have the whole river to ourselves for the longest time. Yonder was the banks and the islands, across the water; and maybe a spark – which was a candle in a cabin window; and sometimes on the water you could see a spark or two – on a raft or scow, you know, and maybe you could here a fiddle or a song coming over from of them crafts. It’s lovely to live on a raft.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 19. Huck and Jim really embrace the freeom of life on the river.
Of Mice and Men quote about Salinas River In River

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.

– John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men, Chapter 1. Opening words of novella introduce a mood of peacefulness. The words paint an idyllic scene, establishing from the beginning the importance of land and nature to the story. But Soledad is also spanish for ‘lonely’ or ‘solitude’ and this foreshadows the key theme of isolation and loneliness throughout the novella.
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