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Write your thesis statement and 3 quotes that you are using to illuminate it. These quotes should be examples of support for your thesis statement. (Note: It is okay if you change your thesis statement between now and Monday. Remember that writing is a process.) Respond to 1 classmates post by Sunday.
Don't forget to bring 3 copies of your 2nd draft to class for workshop on Monday.
My thesis statement is that through this novel [The Power of One], Courtenay shows how the sport of boxing transforms an innocent boy into a young man. I use different quotes to support it throughout the essay, and they are as follows: “I had had no previous warning that I was wicked and it came as a fearful surprise” (4), “From knowing how to hide my brains I had now learned to use them” (40), and “‘Jappie Botha, come! Come, man come, I’ve been waiting for you for most of my life’” (510). These quotes are meant to support my thesis statement that Peekay changes as he gets older, especially due to his boxing.
ReplyDeleteMy thesis statement for Tom Sawyer is: All of these characters, and the experiences they share with Tom, cause him to see life and people in a new light, and ultimately raise his maturity level significantly. I use a variety of quotes to support this, my first is said by his Aunt Polly. She says "I ain’t got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience hurts me so, but every time I hit him my old heart most breaks." Another one is "Tom was a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young...There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging." The first quote describes him at the beginning, as immature and ignorant, then next, after he has changed quite a bit and has a set of morals. I think Jesse's thesis statement is excellent in it's broadness and how it seems like there are endless examples for it.
ReplyDeleteMy thesis statement is: Bilbo completes his journey and returns home; however he never really changes back into his original state of mind.
ReplyDelete1. Gandalf says "'I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that aught to be enough for all of you'"
Although this statement was directed at the dwarves it tell Bilbo he doesn’t really have a choice in the matter.
2. “It was a terrible battle. The most dreadful of all Bilbo’s experiences, and the which at the time he hated most – which is to say it was the one he was most proud of and most fond of recalling long afterwards.”
This shows his new love for adventure or at least after the danger has passed.
3. "'There is a long road yet,' said Gandalf
'But it is a long road,' said Bilbo.'"
This is at the end of the book when bilbo is not really want to go home.
I will post later about somebody else
My thesis statement is that catch-22 two is all about catch 22s
ReplyDeleteI think that Billy's thesis statement and quotes are good because they show how his character is forced to change for the quest, but then ends up being changed forever. The quote that I think especially relates to the thesis statement is the second one, about how Bilbo grows to love adventure.
ReplyDeleteMy thesis statement is: as the years progressed still stuck behind the cupboard, her continuance to survive made her strong, and her innocent immaturity vanished leaving her as a much different person, a girl who had matured into a brave young woman in 2 short years.
ReplyDeleteQuote 1: "I have strings of boyfriends, anxious to catch a glimpse of me and who, failing that, peep at me through mirrors in class." This quote shows her immaturity and how she talked about stupid things that don't matter before she moved to the annexe.
Quote 2: "Remember yesterday's date, for it is a very important day in my life. Surely it is a great day for every girl when she receives her first kiss? Well, then, it is just as important for me too! How it came about so suddenly, I don't know, but before we went downstairs he kissed me through my hair, half on my cheek, half on my ear; I tore downstairs without looking round, and am simply longing for today." This is talking about her relationship with Peter which made her stronger and more mature.
Quote 3: "Be brave! Let us remain aware of our task and not grumble, a solution will come, God has never deserted our people." This shows how she's matured and has become brave and strong from living in the annexe.
I think that Jesse has a really strong argument with her thesis statement and good quotes to support it. All of her quotes support the fact that the guys have changed from boxing, and that is exactly what she was trying to portray.
ReplyDeleteMy thesis statement for Friday Night Lights is: the impact of the adults hopes and goals lived vicariously through the lives of their children.
ReplyDeleteQuote 1: “Those lights become an addiction if you live in a place like Odessa, the Friday Night fix.” (pg. xiv) This is said by the author explaining why the football games are so high pressure.
Quote 2: “The solemn ritual made them seem like boys going off to fight a war for the benefit of someone else,
unwitting sacrifices to a strange and powerful god.” (pg. 11)
The author explains the pressure placed on the young men
Quote 3.A new set of kids, a new set of faces, a new set of hopes, a new set of heroes would be paraded atop the shoulders of the town as gloriously as the Greeks honored their gods. (pg. 285)
This is the authors explanation of what will come when a new batch of boys come into Permian football.
I think Molly did a really great job of having her three quotes show the progress of this girls life. Going from immature, to getting more mature to being a mature young woman over all. It really accentuates what i think she was hoping to portray in her Thesis Statement. Good job molly!
ReplyDeleteMy thesis statement is, Through the character of Dr. Manette, Charles Dickens shows how a man can have his life redeemed, and transforms his life from worthless to quite content, and ending as a hero. A Tale of Two Cities, which takes place in London and Paris in the time of the French Revolution, is a story with many interwoven plots, one of them being the story of the redemption of Dr. Manette. The quotes I used to support this are:
ReplyDelete1. A broad ray of light fell into the garret, and showed the workman with an unfinished shoe upon his lap, pausing in his labour. His few common tools and various scraps of leather were at his feet and on his bench. He had a white beard, raggedly cut, but not very long, a hollow face, and exceedingly bright eyes… His yellow rags of shirt lay open at the throat, and showed his body to be withered and worn.”
2. “The Doctor was in his best condition and looked specially young. The resemblance between him and Lucie was strong at such times and they sat side by side, she leaning on his shoulder, and he resting his arm on the back of her chair, it was very agreeable to trace their likeness.”
3. “The Doctor knew, that up until that time, his imprisonment had been associated in the minds of his daughter and his friend, with his personal affliction, deprivation, and weakness… he became so far exalted by the change, that he took the lead and the direction, and required them as the weak, to trust him as the strong."
I like Molly's quote about the strings of boyfriends, and I think that it is rather comical. It really shows the nature of the character in one capsulated statement. I think that although it is simplistic, it very effective.
My book is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and I'm analyzing the main character, Hank Morgan.
ReplyDeletethesis: WIth Hank's advanced technology and advantageous character traits such as resourcefulness,confidence, and work ethic, Mark Twain creates a character that proves to be the best suited for modernizing the Arthurian Britain.
quote 1: (on resourcefullness)
"You see, it was the eclipse. It came to my mind, in the nick of time, how Columbus, Or Cortez, or one of those people, played an eclipse as saving trump once, on some savages, and I saw my chance." (p. 25){To save himself from execution Hank used an eclipse to pretend that he had magical powers}
quote 2: (on confidence)
"[W]e put up our lightning rod, bedded it in one of the batches of powder, and ran wires from it to the other batches. Thundershowers had been tolerably frequent, and I was not much afreaid of failure." (p. 35){Hank is blowing up merlin's tower to prove his is a wizard to the people of the 6th century}
quote 3: (on work ethic:working for what he belives in)
"If I lived and prospered I would be the death of slavery, that I was resolved upon." (p. 112)
{and then later when he does finish what he started,} "Slavery was dead and gone;all men were equal before the law." (p. 237)
I really like Giulia's thesis statement, because I can personally relate to it. Plus, the quotes support the thesis in a direct and simple way that is none the less more effective. I especially like the 3rd quote where it talks about the football players being honored like the Greeks honored their Gods.
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