Alright for this blog we are supposed to elaborate on what ideas we have for our thesis statement on our upcoming essay. I’m going to be honest and say that I have not gotten very far in this book yet, but I am catching up I think. After saying this though, I would have to say that I would write my thesis statement on one of the most controversial issues in our class discussions: “Is our society today closer to the lives of the ‘savages’ or the lifestyle of what are considered normal people in the novel?” Of course this thesis isn’t final and maybe some other issues will arise and I will want confront one of them instead, but I have a feeling that most of the class will address this issue at some point in their essay.
The Dartmouth Writing Program website helped me to understand that writing a thesis is not all about taking a side and going from there, but instead to, “develop an interesting perspective that you can support and defend. This perspective must be more than an observation.” After reading this I noticed that this had been a problem in the past for me, but I think I have incorporated this idea into my thesis above.
Some other books I will probably include in my essay will be the Bible and 1984. So far this book has gone against many of my strong beliefs and I would really enjoy finding the true answers that I do not already know from the Bible. Also, this may help me out more in class discussions. But seriously I think insights from the Bible will enormously help my point of view on where we stand today as a society compared to the savages and the people from London. Another book I may end up using is 1984. I plan on using this book to compare and contrast the similarities and differences from these two novels.
