How Does Living On A River Affect My Life On The Raft

I remember growing up at our house on the river. It was so much fun and there was so many great activities to do. We could go swimming in the river, take the boat out, or even just lay along the pretty white sand. It was like a little beach which was really fun. I remember one summer my parents let me get a baby duck. The duck was yellow like the sun and had a little brown spot on his head. I named him dot because of the little brown dot that he had on his head. That duck and I were tighter than than two peas in a pod. He would always follow me around whenever I went on walks and would even go swimming with me in the river. Those days sure were fun. I would even take him on golf cart rides which was pretty sweet in my opinion. One day though things turned sour. We were taking our daily walk like we would every day and we were keeping a fast pace. Dot’s little legs wobbled forwards and backwards as he tried to keep a pace with me. It was pretty funny until it wasn’t. All of a sudden a hawk swooped out of nowhere and picked up Dot with its sharp talons and carried him away from the safety and security of me. It was very tragic indeed. I remember the days after that I’d walk around with my little bb gun that I got for Christmas trying to find the hawk that took my beloved Dot away from me. Those days were sad and I would miss him so much. Eventually though I moved on like any normal person would but there will always be a piece of me that is missing without my beloved pet

Twain uses the river to illustrate feelings of security and freedom for both Huck and Jim alike, while providing in depth imagery that parallels it to a safe haven that is mainly unimpeded by the social ills of society. While living on the raft the two are isolated from the stagnant nature that the land possesses. On the river, Huck learns to finally think clearly and ponder about life for the non-oppressive environment allows him to develop. He considers it “lovely to live on a raft” for every night when he and Jim were laying down looking above at the sky, it was “all speckled with stars”(PAGE), unlike the “cramped and smothery”(96) nature of a house on land.

Follow The River by James Alexander Thom is about Mary Ingles gruesome but yet courageous tale of her remarkable 1,000 mile journey home after she had escaped form the captivity of the Shawnee Indians. Through Mary Ingles hard work and determination she proved that all obstacles big and small can be overcome.

In the story “Raft” By Jim LaMarche, The author shows that the main character goes on a journey that changes him. In the beginning, he doesn't want to go to his grandmother’s house, but something happens that changes him for the better.

In “The Open Boat,” Stephen Crane’s writing style creates an emotional separation between the audience and the story’s characters. This short story is an example of American naturalism. American naturalism can be described as “whatever happens, happens.” Although the story’s characters do not think so, nature is indifferent. It does not try to punish or harm; it just follows its natural cycle. Because of the emotional separation created by the American naturalism style writing, the text is open to different interpretations. The audience may be able to recall different life events by the vagueness of the text, and most readers will have empathy for the stranded men.

After reading the short story The Raft by Jim LaMarche I think the raft increased the relationship between Nicky and his grandma. I think this because, Nicky started to help his grandma around the house, Nicky started drawing and painting pictures with his grandma, and finally Nicky watched animals and swam with his grandma.

It is their best choice of transportation as it helps them be unobtrusive. The river also protects them as there is a reward of $300 for Jim, the slave who used to work for the widow. Rivers are generally considered to be placid and to have a sense of tranquility. These characteristics, in a figurative aspect are similar to that of hope. In Greek mythology hope was the last thing that came out of Pandora’s Box, the one thing that would help mankind cope with all the evil in the world. Likewise the Mississippi river is a symbol of hope that helps Huck and Jim on their onerous and bizarre adventure. Huck is hoping he will escape his abusive father, the widow’s efforts to ‘sivilize’ him, but most importantly he seeks an adventure made apparent with the title itself. For Jim it is hope, that one day he will free his family from slavery that pushes him on. Both Jim and Huck knowingly or unknowingly, depend on the river. The bottom line is that Twain uses the Mississippi river to symbolize the great hope that resides in the main characters, thus elevating the reader’s outlook towards the

The river was peaceful and allowed felt like home to Huck. “There warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (Twain, 1356).

According to Huck, “what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others” (Twain 115). The raft remains a place of safety and freedom for Huck and Jim while on their journey. Alone on their raft, they do not have to answer to anyone, and “[They] said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (107). These words precede the chapter that begins with a focus on the glorification of life on the raft in beautiful language that mirrors Huck and Jim’s desire to escape the trouble and violence that characterizes life on shore.

Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” can be said to be one of the most defined narratives that have ever been published. The narrative, published in 1897, is based on the author’s experience of surviving a shipwreck in a sea while traveling to work as a newspaper correspondent. The author, along with other men, was stranded on a sinking ship after it hit a sandbar. The people aboard were forced to navigate to the shore in a rescue boat. However, one of the men died just before reaching the shore. While it is an emotional story, the narrative has been attributed to its effectiveness in presenting some of the most important aspects of human relationships, a thing that renders it a master class.

You said you fear you’ll lose you humanity. I do believe our souls would never abandon us. What you’ve seen, and been through, and whatever you’ve done will never diminish my love for you. Come back to me Jim.

The raft in the story was Huck and Jim's getaway vehicle when Huck is faking his death to get away from his father, Huck is the only known child of the town drunk, "Pap" Finn, who regularly beats his son when he is in town, and has no known mother. Huck in Missouri he encounters Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Jim has run away from Miss Watson after hearing her talk about selling him to a plantation down the river, where he would be treated horribly and separated from his wife and children.

This dramatic change in Jim’s life is giving me the idea that there will be an important journey for Jim relating to these deaths. After all, deaths in book typically play a huge role in

Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a pivotal piece to American literature that furthers realism and the exploration of the countryside. The novel follows fourteen-year-old Huck on his journey down the Mississippi River accompanied by Jim, a runaway slave. Huck and Jim’s journey down the Mississippi River allows the readers a very personal look into Huck’s life as he matures and begins to think for himself, rather than complying with what society has told him is correct; it is Huck’s journey to find his own morals and ideas through his experiences that really make this book a lasting piece of American fiction.

In a society full of moral confusion, the one character “is presented as intelligent, analytical, [and] highly moral” is Jim (Marshall). “Does Jim not make for a far more suitable role model than the drunkard Pap?” Marshall asks. He does, in fact, as he goes as far to create a home for Huck, that Pap never did. As unconventional as it may be, Jim and Huck become a family, with the river as their home. As they travel up the rive “it gradually becomes clear that the two characters leave the constraints of society behind them and create their own world on the water- it is within this world that the influence of societal values are suppressed in favour of a more logical, practical system of values” (Marshall). It is along this journey that Jim teaches Huck what values are really important in an individual, regardless of what society says is correct. He teaches Huck what it means to value another person’s life as much as one value’s his own.