Mark Twain's The Dangers Of The Mississippi River

Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. It may look beautiful and have pretty features and all, but when you master its values, it is not exactly what you thought it was. Mark Twain experiences as a steamboat pilot shifted as he gained knowledge of the dangers of the Mississippi river. First of all, when the author first introduced the river he introduced it as a book. He was making a connection. He was amazed by the way the river different stories the river told, it had a unique story everyday. The flow of the water was the story that Mark Twain was reading. He then started to analyze the river in a particular way. The author depicts, “In truth, the passenger who could not read this book saw nothing but all manner of pretty pictures on it painted but the sun and shaded buy the clouds, whereas to the trained eye these were not pictures at all, but the grimmest and most dead-earnest of reading-matter.” The pilot explains that he now see the good and the bad of the river he has gained knowledge of how the river changes throughout

The river was no long as beautiful and as graceful as he thought it once was before. As the ship sailed farther into the river the water became enriched with astonishing colors. Than the water started to be troublesome, it was trembling, boiling, breaking, and more. The author convey, "This sun means that we are going to have wind tomorrow; that floating log means that the river is rising, small thanks to it; that slanting mark on the water refers to a bluff reef which is going to kill somebody’s steamboat on of these nights; if it keeps stretching out like that;.” The river was becoming to be much of a scare for the pilot. He began to change his thought of the river as if it was trying to hurt him. He started to question different aspects of life, as feeling sorrow for things that wasn’t as bad as what he had just