Complex sentence: The title of the novel comes from Smith's hobby of running; one of his favorite places to run is a small hilly area near his home, every August that area would become infested with grasshopper so he nicknamed it Grasshopper Jungle.
Split into simpler sentences: The title of the novel comes from Smith's hobby of running; one of his favorite places to run is a small hilly area near his home. Every August that area would become infested with grasshoppers so he nicknamed it Grasshopper Jungle.