English

Tyler Fields

29 August, 12:58

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book - a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

-Life on the Mississippi,

Mark Twain

What main idea does this passage convey about the river?

A - The river is meaningless to most people

B - The river is wonderfully different each day

C - The river protects its secrets

D - It is easy to get to know the river