n the passage ‘Two Ways of Viewing the River” from life on the Mississippi by Samuel Clemens,
expresses the way he views the river when steam boating was new to him. Describing the beauty and
incomparable sight he experience, spotting every trace the river holds in a way admiring everything in it’s
surrounding. Yet all the grace, the beauty, the poetry starts fading away. When he realizes that he cannot
view the river the way he did when he first fell in love, and he sometimes wonder whether he has gained
most or lost most by learning his trade (Mark Twain. However, the theme from Twain story can be applied
to a relationship between two people, due to the similarity of feelings changing during time.
When two people are attracted to each other from the first time they meet ,
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happiness and excitement are the first feelings that play in rule, also making both partners experience new emotions that will make them have a deeper affection such as love, concern, and admire. Then they will start enjoying the devotion, warmness, and empathy the relationship brings. For example, when a relationship is in it’s beginning, the guy tries the best possible to surprise his girlfriend and she will do the best possible to keep him happy.
Yet not knowing each other the best, they blind
one another by hiding who they really are, causing them to share more about their feelings,
thoughts and past. Further thus one of the partners in the relationship will no agree with the other
person’s point of view, the relationship will start changing causing the brightness of what they
once felt fading away.
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After a while when the relationship is no longer new, reaching to the point where both
partners get used of the daily times around each other. Feeling like they had mastered the language
of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as
familiarity as they knew the letters of the alphabet (Mark Twain). Deeply having feelings for each
other, but hardly not being able to have the same connection will make them crave with despair for
love and affection. For example, whenever a relationship is losing it’s spark of passion, everything that
used to make a relationship the happiest, no longer can fix the problems that could be fixed with just
a smile. Indeed the two ways of viewing a relationship are different, they also have factors in common. Whether a couple have learn the trade of their relationship or have not be familiar to each other , there will always be feelings involved making both ways of viewing the relationship similar. By learning everything about the relationship, the way of viewing and feeling will change some parts in a positive way .But changing the way of viewing the relationship have its differences too. For example, most couples enjoy most of the first months in a relationship because due to not knowing each other and not being comfortable, both partners do the best to look the most attractive to each other, but when times pass by and they both get comfortable not being pretty around each other, they lose interest in one another. Therefore some feelings fade away while other feelings come in play. In conclusion, Mark Twain’s theme relates to a couple’s relationship due to the learning of each other feeling such as the Twain to the river , and both partners to each other feelings, also including the similarities and differences of the two ways Mark Twain view the river. Above all “Two Ways of Viewing a River” and “Two Ways of Viewing a Relationship”, both have gain most than lost most by learning their trade.
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Sometimes we’d have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time. Yonder was the banks and the islands, across the water; and maybe a spark- which was a candle in a cabin window- and sometimes on the water you could see a spark or two- on a raft or a scow, you know; and maybe hear a fiddle or a song coming over from one of them crafts. (131)
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