pg. 1488-1497
1) “ ‘I’m swimming across the county’. (1494)”
Neddy Merrill decided to swim home because it was a way he could escape and he was determined to do it. He had to urge to swim across the county, which is equivalent of the Lucinda River. He had gone through different people’s pool in order to get home and he had experienced through different reactions of different people. People who had like him and people who did not like him.
2) “Why, we heard that you’d sold your house and that your poor children….(1494)”
Ned was determined to swim the whole way and did not care what others thought of him when he had passed them. Him, swimming to his house was the most important thing on his mind, even if it he was putting his life in danger. Since he hasn’t seen his family, he did not know that his family had left him, so he still thinks that they are home.
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