The Last Good Country

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The Last Good Country is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that follows a young boy who flees into the northern Michigan woods with his sister to escape legal trouble and find refuge in nature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf short story
author Ernest Hemingway NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresCharacter Nick Adams NERFINISHED
Nick Adams's younger sister
genre coming-of-age fiction
fiction
hasAgeGroupOfProtagonist adolescent boy
hasForm prose
hasLength short fiction
hasMotif pursuit by authorities
wilderness as refuge
hasNarrativePerspective third-person narration
hasRelationshipFocus sibling bond
language English
literaryMovement modernism
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
mainCharacter Nick Adams NERFINISHED
partOf Nick Adams stories NERFINISHED
plotSummary A young boy flees into the northern Michigan woods with his sister to escape legal trouble and find refuge in nature.
protagonistAction flees into the woods to avoid legal trouble
setting northern Michigan woods
theme escape into nature
family loyalty
innocence and experience
man and nature

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Nick Adams appearsIn The Last Good Country
Nick Adams appearsIn The Last Good Country
this entity surface form: The Last Good Country: Part I
Nick Adams appearsIn The Last Good Country
this entity surface form: The Last Good Country: Part II