In Saints at the River, by Ron Rash, three deaths occur in the small town of Tamassee, South Carolina. Maggie Glenn is brought back to Tamassee, her hometown, to photograph pictures for the newspaper based on this case. The characters are brought together with each individual death, but the most major one is Ruth Kowalsky’s, a twelve year old girl who drowned in the Tamassee River because of a hydraulic. The town of Tamassee is brought together with the death and with the decision of whether or not to follow the law and preserve the river, or tear up it’s natural pulchritude to get Ruth’s body out. The environmentalists obviously want to protect the Wild and Scenic Act, which was established to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural,
Missoula Discussion One Missoula by Jon Krakauer is a compelling yet unnerving story of Allison Huguet, and the sexual assault epidemic at The University of Montana. Allison is a student, at Eastern Oregon University, who is assaulted while visiting her hometown of Missoula Montana. I like how this book not only tells Allison’s story, but told the story of many other girls in the same town. After introducing Allison the book later tells the stories of Kelsey Belnap, and Kerry Barrett. They were both raped in Missoula and both of their cases were brushed aside by the police department.
The author Daniel Henry Usner Jr brings the lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 into focus and delivers a coherent story of the complex social and economic history that is entangled into the Lower Mississippi Valley region. Usner reveals in this monograph the daily interactions between Europeans, Africans, and Indians in early colonial America. The study concentrates on the region along the Gulf Coast and depicts the frequent changes of political power beginning with the occupation of the French from 1699 to the early 1760s, and then the divided occupation of the Gulf Coast between the Spanish and the British from the early 1760s until the early 1780s. Usner does a notable job of exploiting the active participation in the local and regional
Cynthia Ann Parker was born in Illinois between June 2, 1824 and May 31, 1825 and moved to central Texas by the age of nine with her family. Cynthia Ann Parker makes her mark on history on May 19, 1936; this would be the day she and four others including her brother would be kidnapped by Caddo, Comanche, and Kiowa. Parker was approximately ten years old when she was snatched from the only home she knew “Fort Parker” with her parents and siblings and force into Comanche life (Lone Star). “Fort Parker was built for protection against an attack, built walls around the settlement and established a base for Texas Rangers” (Cynthia). Fort Parker was meant as a safe haven for the whole family, but little did it protect against what it was built for.
There are many themes in the novel My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt. Through the events of Tiger’s life, the reader sees why differences make us who we are, why death is a part of life, and also that true friends will ask for nothing more than an individual’s companionship. As she grows, Tiger learns about life and all the difficulties it will bring, but she also learns that she will have friends who will be with her every step of the way. First of all, the author seems to make a point that people can sometimes find it hard to think that different is okay. In the novel, Tiger is often made fun of by Abby Lynn and her group of friends because her mother acts so out of place due to her condition.
In the passage from Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, writer John M. Barry details the many complexities of the Mississippi river and juxtaposes its characteristics with many other well known rivers in order to communicate and share his fascination with the river to the audience. One of the most stand out ways in which writer John Barry conveys his fascination with the river to others is through intense description of the many complexities of the Mississippi river. Rather than simply stating the flow of the river, Barry opts to incorporate words such as “extraordinarily dynamic combination” and “tremendous turbulence” to paint a vivid picture in the reader’s minds. Barry’s word choice in describing
River Runs Through It Keelan Bartlett In the book River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean It is about a guy named Norman who has a lot of different people around him, especially his brother who needs help. Norman finds it very hard throughout the book to give help to others because either the person doesn’t want help, or he doesn’t like the person enough to put energy into helping that person. Throughout the book, Paul, the younger brother, needs help. He has a bad drinking problem, he gambles, he fights, he is broke, and just needs help, but the problem is that he doesn’t want help from anyone but his brother because he respects his brother Norman.
The Things That The War Can Bring Out In People The passage On the Rainy River written by Tim O’Brien was a short story about himself, and it displays the fear of death, and the fear of shame that Tim O’Brien is experiencing no matter what choice he decides to make. O’Brien is afraid to die, and that is a big reason why he doesn’t want to go to war, but the main reason is the fact that he hates war. He is completely against it, and sees no positive side to it whatsoever. Additionally, he’s afraid of the shame that comes with going to the war.
Heroes are everywhere, and no one ever knows when they will show up in life. In the story “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien, the story describes a certain time in someone’s life that they didn’t know what to do. TIm O’Brien is the character and is very confused with what he wants to do. He was called to the war, something called the draft wanted to bring him into the war, basically volunteer him. O’Brien then decides to leave his job and head north to Canada.
“The cry of a tormented man had come to the peaceful green mystery of my river, and the great presence of the river watched from the shadows and deep recesses.”
Native texts and Romantic poems both use literary devices to express their themes of the cycles of nature and life. In the Native text, “The Iroquois Constitution” by Dekanawida. There is a quote about the currents of water symbolizing that “Into the depths of the earth, down into the deep underearth currents of water flowing to unknown regions we cast all the weapons of strife” (Dekanawida 155). Dekanawida uses symbolism to show how the weapons of conflict are thrown into the water which the current guides away, to not be used again. The people no longer want to fight and want to have peace to unite the people of the Five Nations.
Water spans over approximately seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface. It is vital to the survival of every species, and serves as a passage way between societies. Likewise, “The Path of Water”, in the novel, The Seven Paths, can meaningfully connect to other texts, today’s world, and my life. For instance, this passage can correlate to the community within Anthem. The narrator of The Seven Paths hunts for water.
We have seen examples of talented poets who overview the world in a more sensitive way than normal people. My favorite poem by an author that we have encountered this semester is Lucille Clifton’s “The Mississippi River Empties Into The Gulf.” I think this poem is a great example on how poets recognizes features that normal people cannot interpret out. First, Clifton personified a river to have the characteristics of humans. Clifton noted rivers to carry, to empty, and to drag the memories from the past.
While drinking from the pond he would see the sandy bottom. He explains, “I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” (Paragraph 13). He is basically saying that he views time like the pond.
The Congo river was a river the speaker lived by while in Africa. The way the speaker talks about the Congo gives it the image of a bedtime remedy. Its waters flowing over rocks, waves crashing smoothly with each other, and short crescendoing waves washing up onto the beach soothe the speaker and lull him to sleep. The way Hughes uses imagery in these poems to describe his the surroundings enhances his literature to a whole new
