Please bring a revised copy of your rough draft to school so we can continue our peer editing. Notice that the revision guides are all available on the research paper webpage. Also, here is my revised version of the introduction example we discussed last week in class. The document that outlines other introduction requirements must be on a different computer, so I'm unable to post it at this time.
In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates a wide variety of characters which he then forces to interact with one another as Huck journeys down the Mississippi river. During these interactions, these characters must define their relationships with one another and Twain focuses primarily on the negative elements of these relationships instead of the positive ways people could relate. In fact, a central focus of the novel is the way in which characters use other characters to benefit themselves, rather than acting in a selfless way. The main character, Huck, is no exception to this idea, and throughout the novel, Huck acts metaphorically as a vampire, sucking the life and prosperity out of other characters when it best suits him, and discarding them when he has the chance. Huck demonstrates this vampiric behavior most clearly in his relationships with Pap and the Duke and the King. By portraying Huck in this fashion, Twain draws a parallel between Huck and Southern society and criticizes the South’s continued mistreatment of African-Americans.
