Peace Like A River Analysis

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English 101 sec 63 Paper #2 Peace Like A River and Its Similarities To The Bible “Peace Like a River” is a novel written by Leif Enger. The book takes place in the 1960’s in Minnesota and also the badlands of North Dakota. The narrator and also main character of the book is Reuben Land. Reuben is the son of Jeremiah Land who is very religious and performs miracles that only Reuben seem to witness. Reuben has two siblings, Swede and Davy. Swede is his younger sister who loves literature and likes to write poems and eventually writes a story of their adventures across the country. Davy is Reuben’s older brother who is very protective of his family. Jeremiah catches two bullies, Israel Finch and Tommy Basco, trying to rape Davy’s girlfriend…show more content…
Anytime the Land family finds themselves in trouble or in a situation they cannot get out of after meeting Andreeson, they only have to pray and somehow they make it out of the situation together and ok. When the family is driving they realize that every few miles there is a state patrol car looking for them but somehow the police are not able to see them. Since there are so many police they are scared to stop for gas. The family knows that they should have already run the car’s gas tank dry, but somehow they are able to keep driving. Once they finally find a safe place to stop for gas, it happens to be Roxanna’s house and they get snowed in for days. This part of the story is almost one miracle after another that God gave them when they really needed. In the book Peace Like a River many of the miracles performed by Jeremiah are similar to miracles that occurred in the bible. In the book Jeremiah walked right off the edge of a truck bed and continued walking on nothing but air, which is similar to when Jesus walked on water. Also their vehicle never running out of gas is like in the bible when Jesus was able to feed thousands of people with only a few loaves of bread and a handful of fish from a local
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