We had to read this book for my American Literature class, and I’m currently working on writing an essay (MLA format of course) on it with the topic of the ‘explorer’ archetype. I just wanted to know if anybody else had read this book and what their feedback was about it. I was just curious about people’s reactions to this book, particularly the ending. I am a bit confused about some aspects of it. I have the penguin edition of the book, and really enjoyed it. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed a book that was assigned for school as much as I enjoyed this one. Writing the rough draft has been challenging, I’ve just got an outline and a paragraph going right now; by Monday I have to have a whole rough draft so I can do peer review in class. Make no mistake, I really enjoyed reading it, its just demonstrating traits of an explorer as a valid and clear argument is a bit hard. I mean, how common was it for explorers to be mutinous, lawless, cannibalistic, naive wanderers? Could one attribute all of this to their ego?
Well, to start, there is a big thing on the SDMB against doing someone else’s homework for them.
At the same time if you asked specific questions about the story you might get some answers. Your OP is pretty wide open.
Slee
I wasn’t asking for people to help me with the essay I have to write. I wanted to open up a discussion about the book so I could get feeback and ideas.
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