Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros | Essay & Project Ideas

Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros Ideas for Reports and Papers

1. Write a story of your own about riding on a rhinoceros like the one in "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros."

2. Do some research on the Indian rhinoceros. What is being done to preserve the animal from extinction?

3. What is the history of the rhinoceros's horn being an aphrodisiac? Do some research to determine the size of the market in rhinoceros horns.

4. How is a college "Comparative Philosophy" taught? What are students expected to learn in it? Why did the author choose this subject to be Gottesman's specialty?

5. Compare "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros" to Beagle's other tales about unicorns. What do they have in common? What makes each unique?

6. Beagle says, "But what amazed me as these stories [from Immortal Unicorn: Volume One] began to come in is the eternal command the unicorn retains over the human...
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