'Two Ways Of Viewing The River'

In Two Ways of Viewing the River by Mark Twain, he explains how beautiful and passionate a new experience can be to someone. He describes the beauty of the river by his quote “I still kept in mind a certain wonderful sunset which I witnessed when steam boating was new to me.” At first, everything is new and majestic and it seems to mesmerize Twain. After time passes he sees the river’s beauty more frequently, that it has lost its mystery and majesty. The perspective changes for Twain because with time, he realizes that the world, the beauty, always changes in some way once it becomes a routine. The way Twain felt about the river is similar to how individuals feel in a relationship.
In a relationship when two people start dating, it is beautiful and magical. People do not expect much from each other, just love and …show more content…
They are both different as well. In Twain’s essay, he describes how the beauty is lost; in a relationship, the energy grows stronger when the couple overlooks the flaws, the differences are that when the couple first starts dating they do much more for each other. They see no obstacles. Everything about the other person is amazing but, after living with them or seeing them on a daily basis, certain things about the person become annoying since it is the same routine all the time.
In conclusion, these two topics have a lot in common; the way Twain lost interest in the river and in its beauty is similar to how couples lose interest in each other and in their relationship. Sometimes people are too busy looking at the outside that they do not take time to see what it is like on the inside. Just as Twain, would see the beauty of the river, but when he started looking into it, he saw it was dangerous. In a relationship, partners are seen as beautiful until the other partner gets to know them, then they realize that just like the river could affect Twain, the relationship can have the same