Rainy River

believe in. However, sometimes while on the path of pursuing happiness, one may be forced to compromise and go against what he or she wants or believes in. This idea of compromising happiness has been depicted by Tim O’Brien in the short story On the Rainy River.…

interests can vary from having the freedom to choose between worshipping God or Buddha, to choosing to pursue a specific career in life. The restrictions that we put on our lives not only affect us, yet those around us as well. In the text On the Rainy River written by Tim O’Brien, we explore the life of O’Brien and the significance when an individual attempts to live unconstrained by his circumstances. Tim was a young man who was forced to fight in the Vietnam war, but refused and fled from…

lifetime. So how does one discern which pathway to take? Certainly, they must consider their moral principles and disposition. As well, they should weigh the importance of their aspirations in light of the situation. In his short story, “On the Rainy River”, Tim O’Brien demonstrates that if an individual faces a major moral crisis that affects their dreams for the future, they must trust their intellect, emotions and identity to direct their course of action. Tim, the protagonist, is a twenty…

battlefield by burning their draft cards or illegally crossing the U.S.-Canadian border. The narrator of The Things They Carried attempted the latter in the chapter “On The Rainy River”, but ended up not going through with it. But what made him change his mind? The scene where the narrator makes his choice takes place on a rainy river between the state of Minnesota and Canada. An old man named Elroy Berdahl, who had let the boy stay at his lodge, took him out on a fishing trip that day. At…

with a bright future who just received a notice? This is what the author Tim O’Brien went through in his autobiographical short story “On the Rainy River”. The story is about O’Brien describing his feelings and emotions after receiving a draft letter, and his need to escape it. In the short story “On the Rainy River” by…

conditions, the characters’ ways of life and the season. The weather conditions in the story were rainy, so much that the streams were overflowing. This impacted the story because it made it even harder for Dick to get out. He had to cross a full and fast-flowing river. “But the brawling creek he had swam a few hours before had risen, more than doubled its volume, and now rolled a swift and resistless river between him and Rattlesnake Hill” (14). Another setting aspect that affects the story…

and of course, it holds up its name proudly. No one really knows who came up with the name first, but it surely does fit our feelings for the town. Growing up in Tillamook, I start to notice more and more of the horrifying damage the rain water and rivers do to our town. According to the Tillamook County Department of Community Development, "DO NOT ENTER FLOOD WATER!" flood…

Environmental parameters Vs Plankton Incidents: The graphs presented in figureX to figureX, environmental parameters observed at different sites in each area are presented area wise along with the harmful plankton incidents observed. Average temperature, dissolved oxygen and salinity observed each day at each farm site is used to plot these graphs. There has been a notion that with drop in salinity, which means freshwater run off, there would be increase in nutrients and supporting higher…

Due to the flooding in Lower Onion Creek, Eric Rangel, 17, had to drop out of school due to the financial burden that flooding has imposed on his family. The Lower Onion Creek area flooded twice, once on October 31, 2013, and October 30, 2015. Many Lower Onion Creek residents are living in condemned homes five months after the latest flood. Eric Rangel said after the floods, the city condemned his home. His home was no longer inhabitable, and his family had to seek other shelter options.…

Downstream of dams, marked changes in fish populations occur as a consequence of blockage of migration routes, disconnection of the river and floodplain, and changes in flow regime, physiochemical conditions, primary production and channel morphology(McCartney, 2009, pg. 128). Due to the changes in the fish population caused by dams, the 1996 International Union for Conservation of…