This weekend I plan on hanging with my friends and to just chill. I am going to the movies and probably work.

My face is swirled because Jake Henson punched me right between the eyes. I was yelling at him and calling him names. I also threw my orange at him.

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Theme

I think the theme for this book so far is that you should never give upon your dreams. Eddy acomplished somany things on his trip. When he was battling a huge rapid, he lost his gloves which kept his hands warm, and they were gone. He never gave up even though he lost his gloves which helped him paddle. He knew that he needed to keep on going to finish the journey. Another battle he faced was when he had to make it past a barge that was traveling up the river. All he could do was paddle to the shore and wait for the barge to pass, but it was something he had to do to finish his trip. These examples helped him continue on to finish his trip.

Post #3 Green Eggs and Ham 3 "Mississippi Solo"

The most prominent theme in the novel “Mississippi Solo” by Eddy L. Harris is overcoming obstacles that you dream upon completing in your lifetime, with or without the support of others. “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way,” is a quote to help better understand the concept of this theme. Many of his friends do not believe that this dream is worth aiming for. When he states that he wants to do it, they reply, “What the hell for? What are you trying to prove? Why don’t you just go over Niagara Falls in a barrel?”(3). This was from his own friends, so he had to get the courage on his own to follow his dream. He gets courage from his old friend Robert when he tells him, “…I was going to do the river. I told him the obstacles that blocked me, that I still had no canoe, no gear, no money, and that everyone I knew had said it was impossible and stupid”(5) No matter what people say, he looks past the obstacles and sticks his mind to complete his dream.

Theme

I believe the theme in Mississippi Solo is to always go for your dream no matter what people say. This is shown when Robert says "envy is what fuels their convictions." (8) this shows that when people want what you have that desire to fulfill your dream, they will tell you not to do it for many different reasons, however, the real reason is because secretly they wish they had the courage to reach their dream just like Eddy does.

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i believe the theme that sticks out the most is do anything you want and don't give up until you have achieved your goal.this is most noticeable when is says"Robert had said that if i were to quit that sure as hell is going to mess with your mind and he was right"this explains the theme because it means if you stop the journey early your going to regret it and your going to have the urge to keep going and to finish it.another example presenting this theme is when it says " the mosquitoes tore the shit out of me. i didn't sleep a bit all night long i felt like something was crawling on my."this shows this theme because it shows all the things they go through on this adventure and the determination it takes to overcome these obstacles is great.

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In the book "Mississippi Solo" by Eddy L. Harris the theme i believe is you can do anything if you put your mind to it and going through obstacles. This is shown when Eddy says " I would not make my being black a part of my success or failure or too great a factor in how I perceive things" (67). this shows that he is setting his mind because he is not making a big deal of him being an African American stop him from what he wants to do and what other people may think of him being black and wanting to canoe down the river. Also this is shown when Eddy says " Racism-sure it exists, I know that. But its effect and effectiveness depend as much on the reaction as on the action" (69). This also shows that he is going through obstacles because of him being black people are think that he is a crazy a black man for wanting to canoe down the river during the winter, but he is not letting them stop him from his goal. When the people do say something for him being black or may call him a bad word his reaction is'nt violence he just simply responds back to them as if nothing happened.

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In the book Mississippi Solo by Eddy L. Harris, I believe that the prominent theme of the book would be over coming obstacles that no one thinks that you can. This theme is demonstrated throughout the book whenever Eddy meets anyone who asks, “Where are you headed?” (20). He received many different responses to this question once he answered. They varied from, “You are crazy,” or “I wish I could go!”(51). Every time Eddy ventured into a new town, usually small towns, they all knew that he was not a regular in the town. But, he never did let what anyone would say get to him. Someone once said to him, “You should have a jacket like that. Instead of River Rat it should say River Nigger.”(70). Eddy simply responded, not with violence or being rude but with, “I’m from Nigeria. You mean River Niger. Aha-aha-aha!”(70). In the beginning none of Eddy’s friends thought that he would be able to make it on this trip; clearly he is proving them all wrong. Not only is he ‘just making it’, he is even making a few friends along the way.

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I believe that the theme of Mississippi Solo is that you can accomplish any goal or dream you have if you you give effort to with courage, strength, and passion. Eddy took on many battles to reach his dream of traveling the length of the Mississippi River in a canoe. One of these battles include when he had to make it past a huge barge that was traveling up the river (60). There was nothing he could do in this situation besides paddle to the shore in wait for the slow moving barge to pass, but it was something he had to do to move on to finish his journey. Also, at the very beginning of Eddy's journey, he had lost his gloves that kept his hands warm from the cold winter air that was moving in. Eddy had to paddle in his canoe through poor weather conditions which made him very cold and his hands ache very harmfully. Though, Eddy never gave up and that was just one of the many obstacles that he had faced to get through to reach his goal.

theme

The prominent theme of Mississippi Solo is you can do anything if you put your mind to it. This is shown when Eddy Harris says, "But for all my boldness and reaching out to embrace the world, what would be waiting for me out there on the river? Kindness or evil? Beauty or savagery? Whatever, i didn't want to miss a thing"(14). This shows that Eddy harris had the courage to things he wanted to even though he didnt know what dangers or obsatcles may occur on his trip and that he wanted to experience the unknown weather good or bad his mind was set to it beacause he didn't wanto miss a thing. This is also shown when Eddy harris says, "i decided to cnaoe down the mississippi river and to find out what i was made of "(2). this shows that no one else made him canoe down the mississippi river, insted he was the one who made the chioce on his own. eddy was determined to see what he was made of.

Post #3 Prompt (for Group A)

What is the most prominent theme in the book? ACECE

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Setting as a character - Jacob Black 7

I believe that Harris has developed the setting of Mississippi Solo so well the it can be considered another character. This is shown when Harris said, "Gurgling, cooing gently, the great river is just a baby" (15). The Mississippi River is just a "baby" when Harris starts out which is personalization and is also forshadowing that the river "grows" like a human. It's also shown when Harris put, "The river had bent the rules for me and allowed me to lock through despite the regulations concerning precedence, and the river had taken care to give me a thrill without tossing me over. The river was not as angry with me as I had thought. I was forgiven" (118). When most people think of someone being mad at them they don't normally think of a river, but in this case with how Eddie Harris developes the setting it made me think of the river from the beginning.

Mississippi Solo Setting Post #2

Mississippi Solo is set in the setting of the the late 1800's, early 1900's around the Mississippi River. It is logical that the setting of thee book is the Mississippi River. Eddy Harris did a great job of expressing the river as if it was human. He explain to us the features of the river, and the way the river responded to that. In his description, the river seemed real, an very lively like. "The river has become an adversary" (26). To me as a student reading it from an author's prespective, this quote spoke alot. This statement is like having a character as an opponent, like an invisible character. Eddy Harris explain the setting well so that we could understand, and "read between the lines".

Setting

Mr. Eddy Harris does a fantastic job on preparing the setting for the reader. He makes the river sound very frightening! The time period in which this occurred was a very racist time, for Eddy to over come all of that was pretty awesome. I believe that he describes the river as treacherous and the "mighty Mississippi". The people that he describes around him makes it more and more interesting. The whole setting all together makes it seem like you can see yourself in the book.

Setting Post

Eddy Harris does a very good job developing the setting into a character in Mississippi Solo.  "The Mississippi.  Mighty, muddy, dangerous, rebellious, and yet a strong, fathering kind of river.  The river captured my imagination when I was young and has never let it go"(1).  Eddy is pretty much describing the river as anyone does, then he uses the words "rebellious" and "fathering" in his description.  The other words he uses, mighty, muddy, dangerous, and strong, can also be used to describe a person.  Throwing the words rebellious and fathering in there make the river sound like a person/character in the book.  In fact, he talks about the river as a character throughout the book.  "I have been with this river a long long time.  I knew his mother.  I watched him being born.  I don't want to see him die.  I watched him meandering playfully in youth and running joyfully.  I don't want o see him wandering lost in the delta, searching for his way among the bayous weak and aimless like an old man"(242).  Eddy is pretty much saying that he watched the Mississippi form from Lake Itasca (Mississippi's mother) and grow into the huge mile wide river that it is now.  Instead of just saying that, he threw some personification in there to turn a lifeless river into a constantly developing character.

Setting

I think Eddy Harris did a fantastic job when it comes to the setting of the book (Mississippi solo). He used very descriptive words to show his audience the setting of the book. For instance, Eddy made the Mississippi River as a setting in most part of the book and you clearly can see the connection between himself and the Mississippi by saying he had dreamed to do that journey and now when he did it he felt a genuine relationship with the river. Eddy told us how the weather, the nights, animals, and rivers and lakes affected his journey. He made these things to look like a character in the story that all readers want to know about him. I myself consider the Mississippi as a character in the story because I want to know where it is going to take Eddy to.

Setting as a Character

The river can be considered a character because Eddie does a fantastic job of useing words that allow the reader to create a picture in thier head. This is shown when Eddie says " the sun is going down, shadows are long, everything is swathed in hues of yellow and gol. Along the edge where the lake is shallow, marsh grass grows in the solor of ripening wheat and creates a fake shoreline exending about ten yards or so." The river should also be considered a character because it has a mind of its own and Eddie talks about it like it is a living thing, and sometimes the river turns against Eddie like when the river took his boat and other times the river helps Eddie by letting the current take him down stream so he does not have to work as hard. The river is very important to the story and because it has its own personality it should be cosidered to be a character.

Setting

In the novel Mississippi Solo, the setting that Eddy creates can be considered another character. This is shown whenever he says, "As a child I feared this river and respected it more than I feared God. As an adult now I fear it even more... That old Veteran's Bridge seemed so weak and rickety. My imagination constructed a dilapidated and shaky span of old wooden slats, rotted and narrow and weak with no concrete support anywhere" (1). In this example, Eddy uses imagery to help develop the setting. He gives you a visual representation of the object, yet he mentions his feelings for it like he would with a human being. Also, the reader can make an inference about the way Eddy describes the bridge. He portrays it as very old, aged, and constructed of wood with no concrete supports. In todays society, bridges are very strong and not made of wood. A good era estimate would be in the mid 1900's, approximately the period of racism. Another great example is whenever Eddy states, "The sound of rapids is the same sound of water falling over those huge beaver dams that threaten my progress. I hate the dams but I fear the rapids even more" (26). In this prompt, Eddy uses the idea of personification. He is giving the beaver dam human characteristics of threatening his path. Again, he also develops feelings for this object, saying that he fears it. All of these traits make Eddy seem like he is talking about another character, yet he is still only talking about a beaver dam.

Setting as a charactor

I think Eddy Harris did a very good job at making the setting a charactor. Because there aren't very many other charactors along the way he almost has to develop the setting as a charactor. He writes about how he is so close to the river and how he understands it. He says "the river and life itselfhad, upon careful examination, been rather good to me"(178). He talks about the river as being almost a person that sometimes is calm and quiet but at other times fierce and unforgiving. He does a very good job of making the setting come alive and add that extra charactor (the river) to the list of people he comes across. If anything the setting is the second biggest charactor, he is always on it and always talking about it and what it means to him. He relates to it as almost a companion helping him along his way but also bringing him down other times.

Setting

In the book Mississippi Solo by Eddy L. Harris, the setting of the book can be seen as a character. First off, when it states "the river has become an adversary. I see deer munching leaves on the shore"(26). This shows how the setting is and how the setting could contribute as a character because it shows people like characteristics. Also when it states "that rushing sound, the sound of rapids, terrifies me each has hidden deep behind the marsh that has popped up again"(26). This shows how the river has people like characteristics and how fierce and wild it really is. There are many parts in this book that make the setting seem like a character but are different in many ways.

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yes, i believe eddy has done this. "the morning seemed brittle. when the sun finally rose it looked like it would have taken any excuse at all and go back to bed"(19). Eddy is trying to explain how faint the sun is shining and how the day seems slow and down. "finally the moon rises and throws down its light"(26). eddy is using personification to show how the moon shines in the night after a very long day of being on the river and pushing through its hardships.

setting

In the story Mississippi Solo Eddy does a good job of making the setting of the book seem like another character. Eddy says "After that I'm facing a real river, with current, wind and waves, and traffic"(17). This is showing how he thinks the river is such a beast and how its going to be hard for him to takle this task. In that sentance he makes the river seem like its alive. "The sound of rapids is the same sound of the water falling over those huge beaver dams that threaten my progress"(26). Again he shows how the river is threatening him and making his trip harder.

Setting Post

In the book Mississippi Solo by Eddy L. Harris, Eddy creates his own setting by his word choice and description he uses when explaining even the simplest things. This is shown when Eddy says, "My imagination constructed a dilapidated and shaky span of old wooden slats, rotted and narrow and weak with no concrete support anywhere. The iron girders that held the poor thing up were ancient and rusty, orange and bumpy with oxidation where they should have been shiny and black" (1). This shows how eddy uses his word choice and description for setting because just by explaining the bridge they went over, you can tell that the setting is the mid-late 1900's during rough times with money, since this bridge was described so roughly in Eddy's mind. This is also shown when Eddy states, "This man, at least, was an insurance broker, and while we waited for the waitress to finish talking to whomever, he brought up the weather and asked me where i was from. I told him and said what i was doing and he laughed, pointing out the women in their jackets, and he said: 'You should have a jacket like that. Instead of River Rat it should say River Nigger" (70). This shows that Eddy is in the racism era in part of its roughest times because Eddy doesn't even defend himself against this white man maybe because he was still scared to or he just was not looking for any trouble, but this description builds tension and gives you a clear idea of this harsh setting it takes place in.

Post #2 Prompt (for Group B)

Some authors are able to develop the setting of their book so well that it can be considered another character. Has Eddy L. Harris done this in Mississippi Solo? ACECE

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