Examples Of Mark Twain's Perception Of A River

Mark Twain’s positive perception of the river changes negatively throughout his journey. He began identifying the river as beauty until his experiences changes his perspective of it. The author uses descriptive language to show the change in his viewpoint. In the beginning, he viewed the river as refreshing and beauty like a wonderful book. Twain stated, “There never was so wonderful a book written by man; never one whose interest was so absorbing, so unflagging, so sparklingly renewed with every re-perusal.” The resemblance of the river and book was to indicate that there was a meaning behind the river. Twain emphasized, “ The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger,