“On the Rainy River”

I admit that the story is the first book that makes me feeling goose bumps because being in war is not funny. I had my uncle who was in the  war before, couldn’t live himself independently after the war because the haunts will be always remained in his mind. He had been addicted to heavy drug and alcohol that would help him to avoid bad flashback memory. He would never let anyone in his family know that he was addicted to heavy drugs and alcohol until he decided to tell us. We were shocked for a while, but we helped him to turn into a better person. Because we believe that anything is possible. I am still call him a HERO. However, this story is about a man who went to the war and was a government hater. He graduated in Manchester College and he plan to go to Harvard University.  One day, he received the draft notice from the military. He did not like the government by forcing people to go the war. So he decided to run away from his home to Minnesota because he wanted to avoid the problems that he had been in. As he met Elroy Berdahl, he was 81 year olds. He was the one who changed Tim O’Brien’s life. Elroy Berdahl owned the lodge, Tip Top Lodge. He helped him in many ways. One day, Elroy Berdahl and Tim O’Brien went to the north in border of Canada and America and fishing some fish on the rainy river. As O’Brien wondering, he should be neither crossed the river to be freedom in Canada nor went back to his family and to the war. But he wanted to go back to where he starts and goes to the war.  That part had actually made me feeling goose bumps. He didn’t proud with his decision. I wonder if his parent will look at him differently that he was planning to attempt the escape. But he is a hero because he went to the war to help their people.