Beautiful Mississippi River

Twain's main point in Two Ways of Seeing a River is to express to the readers that there is more than one way of looking at something. He starts off by directing the reader's attention to the beautiful Mississippi River and gives the readers a vibrant outlook on it. Twain uses compare and contrast to describe the same thing in two completely different ways. First, he uses many detailed examples to paint a perfect picture in the reader's head of the beautiful river. For example, the “opal tinted, tumbling rings.. sparkling upon the water” (Twain. 494)and the densely wooded forest that ran across the horizon of the exquisite sunset. The details he chooses to use really helps put together that mental picture of his own experiences. As he does