Two views Mississippi

In  this reading Twain talks about how he once mastered the Mississippi River becoming familiar with the beauty and features of the water. He then became to lose memories he had of the appearances of the once beloved river. The river has totally lost all of its beauty. Twain is fairly unhappy about how once a beautified place turned into now an ordinary river becoming unnoticeable.

When you remember a place that you will never forget, there will always be a descriptive feature that won't lose memory. However if nature or mankind disrupts the beauty of the once favorite place is now scorched with hatred and disgust. Twain goes into detail on the subject of when steamboats would go through the river, but now there are trees sticking out of the water with the water decreasing. This portrays the aspect of how mankind has destroyed a beauty that Twain was very proud of.

Furthermore the two views of the reading would be the past and now the present. Also the views could be beauty vs disgust. Looking deeper into the lens you get the aspect of how he portrays that instead of mankind improving nature and its beauty we are destroying it. The river was once a place where people would go to have picnics, now the river hardly gets any attention.

Two Views Mississippi has nature vs mankind issues. Also there are problems between the beauty and disgust as in this place was glamorous with a lot of buzz. Now it is a place where you only go when you pass by or see it on a plane.