Let's talk a look at it

This is the great Mississippi River. Possibly the most famous river in the United States it stretches North to South across the country and it seems to serve two purposes:

1. To provide water to the citizens of America
2. To provide a way to travel, in particular to young adventurous boys who use the river as a way to figure out who they are, and in the process who their friends are.

Scholars have agreed that the river is both very beautiful and extremely helpful in letting young men come of age.

Historic. And if you look at the picture really hard you can see the dreams of the young ones being squashed by the harsh realities of life captured in the river.

Just beautiful.