For this paper, you should describe and analyze at least three separate scenes in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Your criteria for comparison can be any of the following topics or a different set of criteria, but if you establish your own criteria you must make clear what those criteria are (in other words, tell why you’re comparing the specific scenes you have chosen). Select only one theme or topic:
To sum up: Select at least three scenes, but only one theme or topic. These are just a few of your possible topics, but any of the above should provide you more than enough evidence to support your arguments in a short paper. You are not limited to three applicable scenes, but identifying at least three to describe should help you focus your paper. Do include the “so what?” factor that gives any college paper its significance: That is, include a thesis statement that summarizes the ways that your selected scenes are related and identifies the points they jointly prove. Your thesis statement should not just be a generalization. It should strongly make a very specific claim that your paper goes on to support with evidence from your selected scenes.