Writing A Thesis-Based Character Analysis Essay
TASK: Your task is to write a thesis-based character analysis essay. Details regarding the thesis specific to this essay are outlined below. Your body paragraphs will follow the same assertion/evidence/commentary formula they usually do, but a few helpful details regarding how best to use evidence and commentary in this situation are included below as well. Finally, your paper must reach some significant conclusion, an answer to the “so what” questions that linger in your reader’s mind after you have proven your thesis, a connection to the universal beyond the circumstances of this paper alone.
EVALUATION: Your work will be evaluated using our standards-based rubrics for 11.6 & 11.7.
DUE DATE: A completed, polished essay is due by Dec. 20, …show more content…
Evidence: Through a combination of paraphrased context and direct quotation, show your reader your character demonstrating that personality trait
Commentary: Explain for your reader how the personality trait can be seen in the context and quotation you just shared. If you would like, you can begin to extend your commentary here to show how this trait was a cause of the action/ability/thought/feeling/belief mentions in pt. 2 of your thesis
Reinforcing/expanding evidence: You should provide additional evidence that reinforces that your character demonstrates the trait while also showing that the trait was a cause of the action/ability/thought/feeling/belief mentions in pt. 2 of your thesis.
Commentary: You should finish each paragraph with commentary that ties all of your evidence to your assertion and to your thesis at large.
Conclusion
Finally, it is important that your essay finishes with a conclusion that makes a universal connection and shows the importance of the argument beyond these circumstances.
Because Dimmesdale was sensitive, devout and full of guilt, he was able to admit his sin to the
EVALUATION: Your work will be evaluated using our standards-based rubrics for 11.6 & 11.7.
DUE DATE: A completed, polished essay is due by Dec. 20, …show more content…
Evidence: Through a combination of paraphrased context and direct quotation, show your reader your character demonstrating that personality trait
Commentary: Explain for your reader how the personality trait can be seen in the context and quotation you just shared. If you would like, you can begin to extend your commentary here to show how this trait was a cause of the action/ability/thought/feeling/belief mentions in pt. 2 of your thesis
Reinforcing/expanding evidence: You should provide additional evidence that reinforces that your character demonstrates the trait while also showing that the trait was a cause of the action/ability/thought/feeling/belief mentions in pt. 2 of your thesis.
Commentary: You should finish each paragraph with commentary that ties all of your evidence to your assertion and to your thesis at large.
Conclusion
Finally, it is important that your essay finishes with a conclusion that makes a universal connection and shows the importance of the argument beyond these circumstances.
Because Dimmesdale was sensitive, devout and full of guilt, he was able to admit his sin to the