Essay Topics
1. Put yourself in the canoe with Graves and write about your experience.
2. Select a character, perhaps your most or least favorite, and write an essay about him or her.
3. Write an essay about one of the book's themes.
4. Write about what you think is Graves' purpose for the book.
5. Select one of the book's settings and describe it with the sensory images you experienced while reading about it.
6. Study Graves' use of language -- such as nouns, verbs or adjectives -- and write about how Graves uses it to tell his story.
7. Select a quotation that you feel summarizes the book's purpose and write an essay about it.
8. Write a conversation between two or more of the book's characters.
9. Write an essay about why you think Graves took only his dog with him on the trip.
10. If the river could talk to Graves, what would it say?
