The Journey In Experience In Ross Ones A Heifer Analysis

A Concise Guide for High School and University PrepPRIVATE 1. HEADER, TITLE AND INTRODUCTION -put your last name plus the page number in the top right corner of every page of the essay (this is the header) -on the line below the header, put (1) your full name, (2) your teachers name, (3) the course name and number and (4) the date in list form down the left side of the page, then put the title of the essay centred and underlined on the line below (remember to double-space everything) Anybody 1 Pat Anybody Ms. L. Wiles ENG 7Jc 16 March 2001 The Journey in Experience in Ross Ones a Heifer - the essay starts with a first few sentences which are a general, interesting lead-in to the topic As a writer of short stories, Sinclair
Ones a Heifer, for example, is more than just a story about the incredible poverty that Saskatchewan farming people had to endure throughout the 1930s. - last sentence in introductory paragraph is the THESIS statement, which is the main point/idea of the essay plus three illustrations. For example, in this essay, the thesis is The metaphorical passage from innocence to some degree of experience in the story is conveyed by means of an extraordinary journey that the boy takes across a bleak and frozen stretch of Saskatchewan prairie, through a kind of hell, from which he emerges having taken his first hesitant steps into the adult world. - this thesis implies THREE ways in which the story reflects the motif of the journey (which become THREE TOPICS for each of the THREE BODY PARAGRAPHS) (1) the extraordinary nature of the trip across a bleak and frozen stretch of Saskatchewan, (2) the boys experience of a kind of hell, and (3) the boys emergence from this hell having become wiser than before. The point is NOT to always have three points in your thesis and therefore three body paragraphs the point is that the topic of your body paragraphs, however many there are, must always relate to your thesis - remember that at the high school level, theses should always be one sentence, so sometimes it is necessary to construct more complex sentences using the colon () and the
More than this, his journey takes him into unfamiliar territory and places him among strangers. - the last sentence is a CLOSING sentence that relates back/ties into the thesis Rather like a knight arming himself for battle, the boy arms himself against the cold using the sheepskin coat and two suits of underwear (Ross 98), and rides off on what promises to be an extraordinary journey with evident self-confident innocence. 3. 2ND BODY PARAGRAPH a) TOPIC/TRANSITION SENTENCE (2nd point in thesis) b) EXAMPLES/QUOTATIONS c) COMMENT/INSIGHT d) CLOSING SENTENCE (relates back to thesis) - again, the first sentence is a TOPIC sentence, an exact statement of what the paragraph is about. Going to point 2 in the thesis, the topic sentence reads This journey takes him, metaphorically, into a kind of hell, where he comes face to face with (and does battle with) the devil in the form of a half-mad farmer named Arthur Vickers. N.B. Remember that topic sentences for body paragraphs 2 and 3 must also be TRANSITION sentences, which connect the essay in a flowing, logical