The River Warren and the Importance of Rivers In Our Lives :: River Warren Essays

The River Warren and the Importance of Rivers In Our Lives   It was tradition. Every Sunday after church building my dad, brother, and I would drive through the fields checking crops and whatever else made their homes in my fathers fields. Then wed drive down to the river to check how high or low it was, or to see how frequently worse the river was cutting into the land. The river flowed right at the end of the road, so my dad would always pretend he was going to drive serial into it. We live about one in a half miles from the Missouri River. We have our own private road that winds down to a small send that connects to it. Because of our closeness to the Missouri, I have grown to love and admire it. It is an enormous and amazing machine to me. I find peace and love for it. Its funny how much alike Jeff, Luke, (the two main characters in Kent Meyers The River Warren) and I are towards our rivers. Their River Warren is my Big Missouri.   Luke goes to the river to clear his head, to think about things, and to find himself. He also uses it as a means of control over his father. Two-Speed does not see the river as Luke does. Luke also finds understanding when hes on the river. He knows his father does not feel the comparable about the river, and thats why he takes him there. His father is afraid of the river, and Luke sees how afraid he really is. Before getting into the boat, Two-Speed lifted his head like fire in the air. He realized he was alone-with someone who couldnt be conned. The river worked on him. It flowed into the moment. He knew this was my place. I saw that he knew(223). The reason Luke brought his father out was so that he could try to make sense of things, to make him stay put for awhile, to get enough control to where he had to talk to me, and to where he had to answer questions(232). Two-Speed cant find himself. Hes been lost(p) all his life, made excuses for his drinking, and pretended he was someone else all his life.