Imagery In John Graves Goodbye To A River

An iconic Texan writer, John Graves in his memoir, Goodbye To A River, published in the year 1960 addresses the topic of his experience on the Brazos River and argues that the Brazos River is important to keep. He supports this claim by illustrating the plant and animals, then the sounds of nature, and finally the life of the river. Graves’s purpose is to protect and convince the people to save the Brazos Rover and land around it, to preserve the river for future generations. He adopts an informative tone for his audience, the readers of Texas and others interested in the topic of the Brazos River preservation using imagery, from the specific details of the river from what he sees around him. John Graves tries to convince the Texans to help preserve the land. Within the first half of the reading, a specific rhetorical device would be imagery. For instance, from the reading, “I pulled onto a sandbar below a narrow flat that lay between the river and a mountain, the wind on my neck carried flecks of cold rain...”. Graves uses imagery to show the perspective of the river and landscape he is experiencing from his night setup. Toward the use of imagery, he describes the landscape to show how breath-taking something is that is close to …show more content…
An example from the reading would be, “As the evening light failed, the wind dropped; the rain kept on, a steady, soft, autumn drizzle”. The author uses a syntax in the second half of the reading from the example above, shows a compound and complex sentence. From his description of how the might along the riverbanks are during autumn shows a complete thought of how the rain trickled down, and from how the evening wind felt shows the use of importance to connect the idea of the rain and wind to show the reading’s scenery. In the use of syntax, described the night he experienced but with continuously improved sentences to show he went on and on without any