Thesis Handout

Step Three Examine your X-factor Step Four what is your take on the comparison? Is it arguable? Ie In both works the characters experience isolation so they are alone. (this is not arguable) Vs The monster reading books to learn about himself seems related to Catherine looking toward others to learn about herself both works therefore seem to suggest (something cool that is not obvious)

Conclusions
Never write In conclusion, Write something like Based on the collective evidence it certainly seems that my thesis is a reasonable connection to start with Dont repeat exactly your thesis or your intro paragraph

What to put
Do you have any suggestive ideas based on your thesis that could be explored in a further paper elsewhere? Ie The notion that hospitality is a marker of violence might be something to explore when looking at ancient Greece as a whole does this thesis hold up there? (a bigger application)

What is significant about your findings?

These findings suggest a reconfiguration of our understanding of culture as being not a social good but rather a defensive mechanism for maintaining power structures in society in general.

What is missing? (can include that)

Perhaps an examination of The Iliad in conjunction with my findings on The Odyssey would counter or support my thesis. Perhaps by only looking at violence-related moments in the Odyssey instead of peaceful ones this thesis might be taking somewhat of a narrow view of the book.

Ideas from elsewhere

These notions of hospitality might be useful to think about when examining business and the strict guidelines of a business meeting, particularly in accounting, where any failure to adhere to the norms is not taken lightly.

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Before I come on board your vessel, said he, will you have the kindness to inform me whither you are bound?

Felix, Agatha, the old man (De Lacey)

What does the monster learn? 76 A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family; it was poverty

Justice in France (85)

What other instances of justice are there in the book? The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth, rather than the crime alleged against him, had been the cause of his condemnation

86 but is he innocent
The Turk allowed this intimacy to take place, and encouraged the hopes of the youthful lovers, while in his heart he had formed far other plans.