"It would take days to get to the other side of this jungle of vines, hedges, shrubs, and weeds."
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"Emma was determined to find the way through this maze of pathways tinnels and bridges."
d.enjoying a picnic
The End of Something is a short story, by Ernest Hemingway it narrates the end of a relationship and the end of a way to make a living by the standar american: The mills, little towns would grow around mills or factories, instead of the factories being stablished in cities. With the break up of the couple, Hemingway portarys the split from the past.
C concluded because it means to bring something to a end so it’s declining to end