For this practicum I kept it simple.  I analyzed Kipling's children's story,"The Elephant's Child."  (I know, he's the worst, but my nephews were reading it the other night, and I was thinking that there was so much spanking going on that it was hard to keep track of who had been spanked by whom).  I couldn't get Gephi to work, so I drew the network manually on powerpoint.  First I did a network of who spanks whom how many times.  The thickness of the lines is equal to how many times the spankee is spanked, and the arrow points from the spanker to the spankee.

In the end, the Elephant's Child doesn't simply spank all the "people" who have spanked him in the past, in some sort of satisfying yet violent reversal.  He never spanks his parents or the Bi-Colored-Python-Rock-Snake even though they have spanked him.  He also spanks his brothers who have never spanked him and he finds a poor random Hippo on whom to test out his spanking before going back to his family. 

I also drew a network adding dialogue--specifically questions and answers, since questions are what supposedly get the Elephant's Child spanked in the first place.

This story has the strangest network.  I didn't realize that no one interacted with anyone but the Elephant's Child in this entire story.  What kind of literature has no one interacting with anyone but the main character?  Is children's literature more prone to organizations like this than adult literature?