The Same River Twice

     This section of the book follows the same pattern as the beginning. One chapter on him as an adult about to have a baby and the next chapter on him as a young boy exploring the world. The author spends most of his time continuously worrying about the baby's health, and if he will be the cause of it if something is wrong. For example at one point in the story he says, "I was against the test, afraid that if oour child turned out damaged, it would mean that i was too" (page55). I think his wife is starting to worry about the health of the baby as well simply because her husband is so concerned with it. On page 55 it shows an example of this by saying, "She wanted amnioscentesis to eliminate the worry of producing a baby less than perfect".
     The author still seems to wander through the woods seemingly doing nothing while his wife goes to work everyday. He did however recieve some payment for a short story that he wrote. He feels that the payment makes his wife feel comfortable with her decision to have a baby with him. The payment he recieved was only 54 dollars and i think thats the only money he has brought in for a while now. It seems to me that he is pretty much lazy and just doesn't want to do anything at all. This is pretty evident in some of the chapter in which he is a young kid roaming around the world alone.
     At one point he considers himself a drifter and doesn't know if he is running from something or running to something. Most of the time while he is our drifting from state to state as a young kid he finds work but hardly every stays at one occupation for a decent amount of time. At one point in the story he says, " Montana was a beautiful state but lacked employment" (page 67). At this point in time he seems to be wandering around looking for the perfect job moving from state to state. He did find one job that he like as a dishwasher. But the only reason he liked it was because he didn't have to do hardly anything including think. He even turned down a job with higher pay as a short order breakfast cook because he said he like the freedom of washing dishes.
     To me so far the story seems to have a pretty continous patter of worried father to be and lonesome wandering kid. To me the worried father to be chapters are pretty boring but i do enjoy reading about his adventures as a young kid.


amnioscentesis- is a medical procedure used in prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal abnornormalities and fetal infections, in which a small amount of amniotic fluid, which contains fetal tissues, is sampled from the amnion or amniotic sac surrounding a developing fetus, and the fetal DNA is examined for genetic abnormalities.

dyslexia- a learning dissability that impairs a persons fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read.

trepidation- ossilation in the precission of equinoxs

corpuscles- a small free floationg biological cell, exspecially a blood cell.