The Stolen Party Thesis
COMM 180 Winter 2013 Karen Crawford Hill
Research Essay Outline—Due Week 7
Student Name & Number: Amandeep Cheema 300673568
Topic Number: (from assignment sheet): 2
Topic Name: (demonstrate your understanding by briefly explaining the topic in your own words, e.g., characterization, theme, plot, social message/interpretation, etc.)
A theme is a piece of writing, a talk, or a discussion of an important idea or subject that run through it. In another word we can say that a theme is the central idea or ideas explored by a literary work and in order to identify the theme of the story, we need to composite, or assemble, the aspects of imagination that we gathered from investigation, and regard the story as a whole
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A Handful of Dates
2. The Stolen Party
Draft Main Points: (3 points, each relating to both stories)
1. The writers of both the stories use the method of characterization to create and portray characters.
2. The characters of both the stories had gone through certain experiences which they had encountered or undergone in the course of time.
3. Consequences which they met at the end of the stories for something which happened earlier.
Draft Thesis Statement: (1—2 sentences; include subject, readings, and main points)
The author of the story “A Handful of Dates” and the author of the story “The Stolen Party” are from different culture but treat a common theme of disillusionment. In my opinion characterization, experiences, and consequences are the most important aspects of these two stories.
Planned Development: (Identify support from primary sources for main points; expand table by adding rows or sections as necessary)
Point 1: (briefly restate your main point): The writers of both the stories use the method of characterization to create and portray characters.
Story 1 Examples | Page | Story 2 Examples | Page …show more content…
Story 1 Examples Secondary Source Support | Page | Story 2 Examples Secondary Source Support | Page | He has so far imagined that the field and playground “belonged to my grandfather ever since God’s creation,” turn out to have belonged to Masood(Diaz, G., 2007, p. 34) | 34 | Her memories of her childhood are quite clear and insightful- perhaps the reason for the numerous stories she had written about children. (Hassan, W. S., 2003, p. 185) | | 185 | | | | | | | | |
Point 3: (briefly restate your main point): Consequences which they met at the end of the stories for something which happened earlier.
Story 1 Examples Secondary Source Support | Page | Story 2 Examples Secondary Source Support | Page | It is a fall from childhood innocence that comes about with knowledge.(Diaz, G., 2007, p. 34) | 34 | What she discovers is that she has just begun her own training in servitude. (“Liliana Heker,” 2003, para. 2) | | | | | | | | | | |
Research Essay Outline—Due Week 7
Student Name & Number: Amandeep Cheema 300673568
Topic Number: (from assignment sheet): 2
Topic Name: (demonstrate your understanding by briefly explaining the topic in your own words, e.g., characterization, theme, plot, social message/interpretation, etc.)
A theme is a piece of writing, a talk, or a discussion of an important idea or subject that run through it. In another word we can say that a theme is the central idea or ideas explored by a literary work and in order to identify the theme of the story, we need to composite, or assemble, the aspects of imagination that we gathered from investigation, and regard the story as a whole
Relevant …show more content…
A Handful of Dates
2. The Stolen Party
Draft Main Points: (3 points, each relating to both stories)
1. The writers of both the stories use the method of characterization to create and portray characters.
2. The characters of both the stories had gone through certain experiences which they had encountered or undergone in the course of time.
3. Consequences which they met at the end of the stories for something which happened earlier.
Draft Thesis Statement: (1—2 sentences; include subject, readings, and main points)
The author of the story “A Handful of Dates” and the author of the story “The Stolen Party” are from different culture but treat a common theme of disillusionment. In my opinion characterization, experiences, and consequences are the most important aspects of these two stories.
Planned Development: (Identify support from primary sources for main points; expand table by adding rows or sections as necessary)
Point 1: (briefly restate your main point): The writers of both the stories use the method of characterization to create and portray characters.
Story 1 Examples | Page | Story 2 Examples | Page …show more content…
Story 1 Examples Secondary Source Support | Page | Story 2 Examples Secondary Source Support | Page | He has so far imagined that the field and playground “belonged to my grandfather ever since God’s creation,” turn out to have belonged to Masood(Diaz, G., 2007, p. 34) | 34 | Her memories of her childhood are quite clear and insightful- perhaps the reason for the numerous stories she had written about children. (Hassan, W. S., 2003, p. 185) | | 185 | | | | | | | | |
Point 3: (briefly restate your main point): Consequences which they met at the end of the stories for something which happened earlier.
Story 1 Examples Secondary Source Support | Page | Story 2 Examples Secondary Source Support | Page | It is a fall from childhood innocence that comes about with knowledge.(Diaz, G., 2007, p. 34) | 34 | What she discovers is that she has just begun her own training in servitude. (“Liliana Heker,” 2003, para. 2) | | | | | | | | | | |