Living through life
Everyone falls in love sometime in their life. Whether it is love at first site or love built up after being with someone after a long period of time, they all attain different characteristics of a loving relationship. In the story Selway by Pam Houston, the narrator has a love and a drive to stay with her boyfriend who is a wild and untamable person who loves to live on adventure. One of his hobbies is white water rafting where he gets his thrills. He decides to go on one of the hardest rivers around. He decides to take up the offer and take his girlfriend along with him. She is always up for a challenge and is very spontaneous and chaotic herself. Along the trip the narrator receives wisdom in which she really takes to heart. From the beginning of the story until the end, we will see the narrator gradually changes over the course of the adventurous trip. The narrators mind changes in her views, but also changes from her experience to realize she would live out the rest of her life by his side. As the story beings, the narrator and Jack start their trip of a lifetime by heading down to the Selway River. They have both known each other for about one year. She is one of four girlfriends who has gone out with Jack and has
Although their relationship is chaotic and broken down just like the house, they still have apart of their relationship still standing and built strong. She was comparing that with the fact of Harvey's wife being at home and herself being on the river. Looking at its fullness made me want to grab jack and throw him down on the boat ramp and make love right next to where the river roared"(Houston 22). At the end of the story the couple is heading home, and they are both talking about the trip. I wanted to think about dying"(Houston 23). She was starting to question what her real intentions were on the river with Jack. The only time they can actually really get along and have a win and loss on both sides is when they are having sex. The guys would then fall in love with her and not have that same passion just because they were bounded to her. The narrator wants a guy who was self sufficient and could keep on going but at same time have her and not lose his untamed heart. She was always the type of girl who wanted the guy and fought for the guy who was the most wild and untamable. Jack is quite different in this aspect. Although she is very smart and knew what she is doing, one instance that occurred is when she stuck her foot in the water and it went numb. "I wont even admit by how much the bad days outnumbered the good. Sex was where "making love when you're at once absolutely powerful and absolutely helpless, a balance we could never find when we were out of bed" (Houston 33). At first glimpse, Harvey thought as if the narrator and Jack were married and on a honeymoon coming down the river.
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