I'm going to tell you a little about my research paper. I'm writing it in a fictional short story format, and I'm hopeing that through my research I can create a very realistic theme. When I read over my own work though, I always feel as though I made it to fictional, like you're watching a cartoon or something of the sort. It never gets the true feelings I'd hoped to give it. I haven't started writing my paper yet, but this is going to be the first story I ever write using research. Hopefully that helps me with the realism I'm hopeing to accomplish.
So far I've begun the main characters and setting descriptions. I feel like the entire story will take place on a slave trade ship, starting in Africa when the slaves are originally being stolen away from their home. The main character is Thomas. He is African and one of the 130 people boarded onto the boat (I don't have a name for the boat yet, anyone willing to help me out?). His friend Harriot is also an African forced into the tiny space below deck. The main caretaker and janitor on board of the ship is Wallace. He's part of the crew and is mostly in charge of watching the slaves, distributing water and food, and emptying the tiny buckets the slaves are offered as toilets. (They are lucky, on most ships they got neither care taker, nor toilet..)
Anyway, although I haven't given away any real detail, I'll leave it at that before I do give away my entire story plot. Anyone want to offer me some ideas on how the story should play out, or other characters I should add, an event such as a heavy storm or shark attack?? I'm still building the story plot so anything you offer me is greatly appreciated!
