The River Rdquo Analysis

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Stuart Mulzac Catholicism 9/12/09 Essay One After reading “The River”, which is about a little boy named Harry Ashfield (Bevel) who is watched over one day by a babysitter who decides to take Bevel down to the river where he can be baptized by a preacher name Bevel as well. As the story goes on I noticed that Bevel did not have any real knowledge of who Jesus was, until he was in Mrs. Connin looking at the picture on the wall, and seeing the book “The Life of Jesus Christ for Readers Under Twelve.” I will be using the text, and my own insights to answer the question of, “Is Bevel’s baptism the perfect Christian life journey?” Before I do answer the question, I had a question for myself…show more content…
It was such an emotional time for him that he had managed to get the book inside his coat and take it from Mrs. Connin home, before they set out to the river. The second time I believe that bevel found his liking was at the river the first time. Once he had been in the preacher’s hands, and was told that he would be able to go to the Kingdom of Christ, This is what Bevel wanted. Bevel even said, “I won’t go back to the apartment then, I’ll go under the river.” Thinking this is where the Kingdom of Christ is a better place where he will count. Wanting to go to the Kingdom of Christ, the next day Bevel decided to go back down to the river where Mrs. Connin had taken him. He felt that he wanted to do his baptism himself, and make his way to the Kingdom of Christ. Not wanting to deal with the silliness of a preacher doing the baptism, Bevel took it upon himself to do it until he found the Kingdom of Christ in the river. Indulging himself as the preacher had done before, thinking that nothing was happening since he wasn’t going any where, Bevel became upset, until he got scared and plunged himself under the water a third time. At this point, Bevel believes that the water is taking him to the Kingdom of Christ, so his anger and fear he had a few seconds before were gone, since he thought

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