The appositive in the given sentence above is "Hemingway's novel" which describes and renames the noun "The Old Man and the Seabook". An appositive is a word or words that are used to describe or rename the subject of the sentence.
In this paragraph, a white puddle is a simile for snow. If the sentence where white puddle is mentioned is this one: Patches of old snow, scattered here and there, looked like white puddles.
I hate to be that one person, but what are we supposed to do?
To help control the insects in Borneo
