Papers you have to write?

[Skylark]

I have to write a journalistic piece about Paul Baribeau by May but other than that I have nothing at the moment.

[the shortest route to the sea]

Last year I had a substantive piece of writing due every week, and now my first writing assignment is in 3 weeks. It's on Huck Finn, so I'm trying to decide between Huck's experience and understanding of death as the novel goes on, Twain's exhortation that no one try to find motive, moral, or plot in the novel, Huck's complex use of religious terms and beliefs, the concept of scavengers, or just plain talking about morality.

My English teacher is...subpar, let's say...but I hear that other teachers are teaching Huck's understanding of death very closely. It's a topic I'm very interested in, but I have to do my own research and make my own conclusions. But Huck's lonliness is often directly linked with death in the vocab he uses, and his attitude after his father's corpse passes by is a perfect example of his attitude, compared with when he learns that it WAS his father. It's just such a rich topic...maybe too rich, actually.

Twain's exhortation is: "Those attempting to find a motive in the narrative will be prosecuted; those attempting to find a moral will be banished; those attempting to find a plot will be shot." In his own sarcastic way, he's inviting the reader to discuss and revel in three of the books' most poignant themes: motivation (especially for a crime or bad deed), morality (and the decision to commit a crime) and plot (the total chain of crimes and bad people which Huck and Jim travel though). There's a lot there, but I'd just touch on how rich each topic was. Seems more suited for a paragraph or short essay, though.

Huck tends to learn a lot about religion from the Widow and, although he misapplies it a lot, he uses it regurally. Whether this has to do with the customs of the time (like being racist), his use of it definitely makes some statement about it in general. But this topic coincides too much with how pragmatic and logical Huck is, and how he approaches things from trust and then makes his own conclusions that not even Jim's argument can shake.

Morals would be a fun topic. Because writing a beautiful paper is one way I can say FUCK YOU to my teacher, I want a large topic which I can handle...but in this case, I've actually been looking at Huck Finn through alignments: Lawful Good, Chaotic Neutral, etc. Of course, I could just reduce it down to morality against immorality versus amorality, but where's the fun in that? This is my favorite right now.

I'm honestly only just past when that drunk was killed in the Arkansaws town, but I want to be ready for twists so I've skimmed ahead a little. I will also be ready for this paper. Any help on which topic I should pick?

[ME##]

I DID ONE ON JOHN PROCTOR LAST YEAR AND I GOT AN A+
do you want to borrow it

Yes.

I was going to do Mr Proctor in the first place.

[Det in F♯ Major]

Yes.

I was going to do Mr Proctor in the first place.

okies luls.

and also .

[Skylark]

For the Crucible essay I did Hale

[Wrench]

I've got to type a 1 page summary and 1 page reaction about the bailout for government. I've also got to summarize some sections of the Republican planks.

[Rosti LFC]

I have to get a journal from the library at the Engineering dept at my University and find an article that I will then basically give a presentation on.

This isn't hard in itself, except I gave myself all of yesterday afternoon to find an article, only to get to the department and find that I couldn't actually get inside on a Saturday