Mark Twain, part 2

Mark Twain, "The Lowest Animal" (535)

• Read "The Lowest Animal." (definition of satire on p. 534)
  
• What is Twain's purpose in this essay? What is he satirizing?
• Write a rebuttal to Twain's essay in which you defend human beings as rational, caring, civilized creatures.

This rebuttal may be written in any form: a letter to Twain, a parody of Twain's essay, a serious essay, a poem, an anecdote, etc. (HAND IN)