Essay topics

On monday my group and I came up with four very good essay topics based up the dime novel California Joe. Topic one is the idea of the nature of a classic hero vs the outlaw hero that is presented in Cali Joe. The second topic is the purpose of Maggie in the story, We thought that this would be a good topic because in the story she only show up at times and then after that chapter she leaves and is not seen again for a while. The third is the idea of money in the novel. This comes up as an issue because in the book some people call Joe the gold man, and his name California Joe gives off like the forty niner connotation. Even with all these things money seems to have no hold on Joe. The fourth and final topic is the anti climatic ending of the novel compaired with the the rest of the book. In the book up until the final chapter Joe engages in battles were he is greatly outnumbered and still he come out fine. In the final chapter though Joe is killed by one man in the bushes with a rifle. He doesn't even have a chance to fight he dies instantly and thats the end.