Dead River Quotes

Once said by Charles Spurgeon “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” This helps show the theme of the novel by saying that the fear or anxiety can cripple you by draining your strength. In her novel Dead River, Cyn Balog uses characterization to reveal the them of the fear of death can be crippling which is also relevant to the border teenager today. The author uses the character Cyn, words and actions to reveal the theme: the fear of death is crippling. For example, Cyn once said, “Unfortunately, it wasn’t. So I guess that means it will be the tenth anniversary of my mom’s death.” The meaning of this quote is that unfortunately Cyn’s mother had died at the drowned in a river. However, she feels as if it isn’t so because she feels as if her mother is still there. Additionally, she later says, ”Please take me gently down the stream where I can't be hurt. Somehow I can’t escape the thoughts of icy cold water and death even when writing.” This quote means that the death of her mother in the cold frigid water still haunts her and that when her mother was carried away that she was taken to heaven or some other after life where she could not be harmed. These examples have shown that this theme has been shown throughout
For example, Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV) says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” This means that there is a plan and that those who fear rather than overcome are crippled with evil fear which is shown throughout real life by youth. Furthermore once said by myself, ”I’m not afraid of dying. I am afraid of dying of how others before me have thus I am afraid to drown.” This means that dying the same way others have is frightening it makes me scared to for example, go swimming in the deep section of a lake where others have drowned and