Scene for Peace like a River

Authors Note: This is my prompt for Peace like a River. It's about a scene in the story that I thought was important. I made it short and right to the point. Hope you like it! Please leave a comment.

Throughout the novel Peace like a River, a specific feel for the book is maintained. This feel is somewhat ironic. The setting is based off of this ironic feel, and builds up your understanding of the book. I chose a scene that best describes the setting for the whole book.

The scene I chose is when Davy shot Tommy Basca and Israel Finch. The description for ironic is something that is crazy, and rarely happens. It’s a nightmare vision come to life. Witnessing a murder seems very ironic to me-especially two murders.

Symbolism was provided from the scene I chose. Some examples are past midnight, (p.48) door handle turned, (p.48) smoky and quiet, (p.48) wrestling his headache, (p.48) bright soaked and blinking, (p.49) bright black rain drop, (p.49) and the end of all our lives. (p.49) As you can see, all of the symbols are scary, and ironic. That’s why I choose this scene-because it helped me understand the mode and symbols of this story.

Throughout the story, there were many other scenes that also matched the mode of the story. Although, I thought this scene was the most obvious. It helped decide what the mode/theme of the story was, and what the symbols were.