Peace Like a River
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Clay His Separate Shadow Beauteous Are My Cakes Indeed Your Toughened Heart Peeking at Eternity When Sorrows Like Sea Billows Roll Late in the Night When the Fires Are Out A Boy on a Horse By the Grace of Lurvy The Substance of Things Hoped For The Last Thing He Would Do At War with This Whole World Something Warm The Skin Bag Under the Gibbon Moon The Throbbing Heart of News The Little Man's Country Winning Her Hand Boy Ready The Ledger of Our Decisions The Red Farm Be Jubilant, My Feet The Curious Music That I Hear
Themes
All Themes Youth vs. Adulthood Religion Fiction, Reality, and the American West Loyalty and Family Justice and Consequences
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Characters
All Characters Reuben Land Jeremiah Land (Dad) Swede Land Davy Land Roxanna Crawley Jape Waltzer Sara Tin Lurvy Thomas DeCuellar Martin Andreeson Superintendent Chester Holgren
Symbols
All Symbols Sunny Sundown Valdez
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Peace Like a River

by

Leif Enger

Peace Like a River Symbols

Sunny Sundown

The cowboy Sunny Sundown is a character invented by Swede, and the hero of her epic poem. Over the course of his journey, Sunny Sundown transitions from staunch lawman to misunderstood outlaw. He acts…

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Valdez

Valdez is a bandit king from Swede's epic poem. As Sunny Sundown’s adversary, he first appears as a greasy villain: obviously evil, but also sure to lose to Sundown. Following Swede's kidnapping by…

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