River Journals

    Pages 1-15

"When you are in your teens-maybe throughout your life- being three years older than your brother often makes you feel he is a boy." -Pg. 5

"Besides it is the river that we knew best."

- I can relate to this quote that Norman said on pg. 13 because this is all Norman knows. And it's just like me for basketball, without basketball I don't know what I would be today. Norman was created through the water, as I am created through basketball. 

    Pages 15- 30

"One fear looked down the shoreline and said to me (a third person distinct from the two fears)" -page 18

"My brother's wet clothes made it easy to see his strength." 

-When Normans says these words about his brother, I knew that he was talking about how Paul had to struggle to get the fish and work hard. I can relate because after one of my sisters games and she's all sweaty, I know that she has worked hard and she has strength.

    Pages 30- 45

"they started at each other. No Scottish mother likes to be caught with a lazy son in bed, and no Scot going fishing likes to stand around waiting for a male relative with a hangover." - Page 34\

"The body and spirit suffer no more sudden visitation that that of losing a big fish, since, after all, there must be some slight transition between life and death."

 This quote kind of confused me when I first read it. I thought that i could relate to it because it's just like losing a game or something like that. But then I thought about it some more and thought that maybe what he's trying to say that it feels like losing someone through death. And that's what he feels like when he loses a big fish.

   Pages 45-50

" I had a better chance to dominate the situation by asking a question than by making a series of declarative sentences." -Pg. 51

"I was in the same old box."

I can really relate to this quote because he's basically saying that he was trying to get himself out of something, like an argument or something, and he always finds himself back where he has started.

   Pa