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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Goodbye to a River Plot Summary and More}}

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Goodbye to a River Plot Summary and More}}

'''Goodbye to a River''' is of course required reading material for all incoming freshman at Texas State University this fall. And of course the administration picked an obscure book to make sure sure students would actually read for once. However thanks to Search engine optimizing firm [[Directory:Page Creations|Page Creations]] the truly lazy now have an out. So without further ado...

'''Goodbye to a River''' is of course required reading material for all incoming freshman at Texas State University this fall. And of course the administration picked an obscure book to make sure students would actually read for once. However thanks to Search engine optimizing firm [[Directory:Page Creations|Page Creations]] the truly lazy now have an out. So without further ado...

==Plot Overview==

==Plot Overview==

==Part 1==

==Part 1==

===Chapters 1-3===

===Chapters 1-3===

The book opens up in October with graves trying to personify the river. He gives us some facts like since WWII the governments already put it two dams and 5 more are scheduled to go in soon. He then gives his two cents on how we should embrace the good old days but he then concedes progress in inevitable. He's a bit taoist if you ask me.  

The book opens up in October with graves trying to personify the river. He gives us some facts like since WWII the governments already put it two dams and 5 more are scheduled to go in soon. He then gives his two cents on how we should embrace the good old days but he then concedes progress in inevitable. He's a bit Taoist if you ask me.  

Chapter two starts with him coming back to west Texas then after BSing with an old merchant Graves and his best childhood friend Hale drive up to the new Possum Kingdom dam where they take his canoe and all his gear down by the river. Hale heads back to the wife, kids, and work while Graves meanders down the river with his only companion a dachshund puppy. He stops for the night and camps out along the back reminiscing and worrying that all the rain will make the river too high.

Chapter two starts with him coming back to west Texas then after BSing with an old merchant Graves and his best childhood friend Hale drive up to the new Possum Kingdom dam where they take his canoe and all his gear down by the river. Hale heads back to the wife, kids, and work while Graves meanders down the river with his only companion a dachshund puppy. He stops for the night and camps out along the back reminiscing and worrying that all the rain will make the river too high.

The third chapter is a short stint all about history. The original Spanish explorers named it the "Arms of God". The Comanches were nomadic but roamed and owned the whole area. They were then compared to the Huns, Visigoths and others. You know outside nomads vs. the romans (this time whites and Spaniards.   

The third chapter is a short stint all about history. The original Spanish explorers named it the "Arms of God". The Comanches were nomadic but roamed and owned the whole area. They were then compared to the Huns, Visigoths and others. You know outside nomads vs. the Romans (this time whites and Spaniards.   

===Chapter 4===

===Chapter 4===

===Chapter 5===

===Chapter 5===

The rain stops just enough periodically for Graves to talk himself into continueing. As he floats down the river he briefly discusses each what the bends are named for. Mostly old important white ranchers (Slaughter, Goodnight etc.) He then hits some pretty hard rapids is an area called Dark Valley and interrupts a couple fly fishing. Graves then gives more insight into the Indians of yesteryear citing there were good Indians everyone liked: the Ionies, Wichitas, Kichais, and Caddos and the bad Indians: the Comanches and the Kiowas. Graves next discusses the reservation system and why the Indians were so pissed off and scalpy. Next and story about poor Chotcaw Tom and his merry men and how they were slaughtered by the white man led by a guy named Captain Garland. This eventually leads to most Indians being eradicated or fleeing from Texas in 1859 by a General Neighbors. Finally Graves gets back to the present and moans about how he's not living off the land enough and eating mostly store bought food. After quoting Veblen and Thoreau a bit he calls it quits.

The rain stops just enough periodically for Graves to talk himself into continuing. As he floats down the river he briefly discusses each what the bends are named for. Mostly old important white ranchers (Slaughter, Goodnight etc.) He then hits some pretty hard rapids is an area called Dark Valley and interrupts a couple fly fishing. Graves then gives more insight into the Indians of yesteryear citing there were good Indians everyone liked: the Ionies, Wichitas, Kichais, and Caddos and the bad Indians: the Comanches and the Kiowas. Graves next discusses the reservation system and why the Indians were so pissed off and scalpy. Next and story about poor Chotcaw Tom and his merry men and how they were slaughtered by the white man led by a guy named Captain Garland. This eventually leads to most Indians being eradicated or fleeing from Texas in 1859 by a General Neighbors. Finally Graves gets back to the present and moans about how he's not living off the land enough and eating mostly store bought food. After quoting Veblen and Thoreau a bit he calls it quits.

===Chapter 6===

===Chapter 6===

===Chapter 7===

===Chapter 7===

Graves wakes up and sees another deer, maybe its a recurring motif or something. After exploring the banks some more he finds and abandoned house and goes on to describe damn near every object in there to build up an atmosphere. As Graves walks around the rusty, musty, dusty, house he wants to know what the people that lived there were like and their relationship with the river, the Indians, and other crap like that. Graves goes on about buffalo soldiers, and more about Charlie Goodnight and says some pretty nihilistic shit like "an economy in which the planned obsolescence of both man and machine in basic... (pg. 75) He stops off at a dude ranch along the river to make a telephone call but turns around because he doesn't feel welcome and waits until he gets to a quite white trash nearby town. Once there he walks into a shit-n-get and discuses the parlance of our times with an old shopkeep before going to a gas station to call his people then Hale. After heading back to the river Graves brings up Chaucer and Twain while talking about the difference between loneliness and aloneness. While on the loneliness subject he gives the biography of a hermit named Sam Sowell and his sad exploits until his eventual death. The chapter ends with the story of another loner that went to jail because he killed game out of season but Graves justifies killing anytime for survival is morally superior to killing in season for sport.  

Graves wakes up and sees another deer, maybe its a recurring motif or something. After exploring the banks some more he finds and abandoned house and goes on to describe damn near every object in there to build up an atmosphere. As Graves walks around the rusty, musty, dusty, house he wants to know what the people that lived there were like and their relationship with the river, the Indians, and other crap like that. Graves goes on about buffalo soldiers and more about Charlie Goodnight and says some pretty nihilistic shit like "an economy in which the planned obsolescence of both man and machine in basic... (pg. 75) He stops off at a dude ranch along the river to make a telephone call but turns around because he doesn't feel welcome and waits until he gets to a quite white trash nearby town. Once there he walks into a shit-n-get and discuses the parlance of our times with an old shop keep before going to a gas station to call his people then Hale. After heading back to the river Graves brings up Chaucer and Twain while talking about the difference between loneliness and aloneness. While on the loneliness subject he gives the biography of a hermit named Sam Sowell and his sad exploits until his eventual death. The chapter ends with the story of another loner that went to jail because he killed game out of season but Graves justifies killing anytime for survival is morally superior to killing in season for sport.  

===Chapter 8===

===Chapter 8===