"How have the composers of these texts used the river motif in different ways to show how rivers can influence the imagination or govern the lives of people? Consider issues of culture and context."

Title: "How have the composers of these texts used the river motif in different ways to show how rivers can influence the imagination or govern the lives of people? Consider issues of culture and context."
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"How have the composers of these texts used the river motif in different ways to show how rivers can influence the imagination or govern the lives of people? Consider issues of culture and context."
Texts discussed: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, A River Sutra by Gita Mehta and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. A 'river' in everyday usage is seen as little more than a flow of water. The composers of my chosen texts, however, have taken the motif of rivers in a different perspective, and have used this motif in their works to show how rivers can influence the imagination or govern the lives …showed first 75 words of 1741 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1741 total…within a wide cross-section of American life, which greatly influenced the context of his novel. In conclusion, the composers of these texts have all used the river motif in different ways to show how rivers influence the imagination or govern the lives of the people around them. In each text the motif has been presented differently, as a result of the composer's cultures, use of literary techniques and the contexts in which they were written.

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