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Thesis workshop assignment: Post your opening paragraph with thesis statement (and your preliminary outline)
Essay assignment prompt:
Which author’s way of using description of physical things to depict the condition of his or her parent/child relationship more effectively communicates the nature of the relationship? Explain why.
Sarah Vowell tells the reader about the relationship by describing physical things: the political posters in the upstairs window of the house, her father’s workroom compared to her music room, etc.
Brad Manning reveals what his relationship with his father was like by describing the look on his own face and the look on his father’s face when his father had just beat him in arm wrestling in the opening paragraph.
description — give evidence of the senses; report what the senses perceive.
- What physical thing(s) does Vowell describe in order to tell the reader about her relationship with her father?
- What physical thing(s) does Manning describe to tell the reader about his father-son relationship?
Define, in three sentences each, how each author’s description of the physical is used as a vehicle for telling about the dynamics of each relationship.
Compare the two and state in your thesis which author more effectively uses description of the physical to reveal these dynamics to the reader.
- Your thesis statement, in direct response to the essay assignment prompt, is the result of comparing what you defined earlier in the paragraph ,