THESIS STATEMENT

One of our assignments for this semester is to write a position paper. The first thing that we all should do is to come out with a thesis statement that will summarize our focus on the story. I choose to do the story “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams. At first, I had difficulty in producing my thesis statement because I was not very clear with it even we had learned about it before. What I mean here is the way to write a thesis statement. At that moment, I had two issues that I wanted to focus on but I haven’t decided which one is the best. So, I created two thesis statements; the first one regarding the character of Stanley which is “Violence is Stanley’s way of showing power over women” and the second one regarding the character of Blanche which is “Blanche’s refusal to accept reality trapped her in world of fantasy”. During the class, Dr. Edwin asked all of us to write our thesis statement on the board. I think this is very effective activity for both the lecturer and the students as it saves a lot of time. For lecturer, it makes Dr. Edwin’s work easier because he can look at many thesis statements and corrected them at the same time as they were written on the board. As for the students, we can learn something from our friends’ thesis statement. Besides, we will know what story that our friends work on.

Talking about my thesis statement, I choose to write on the first one. Dr. Edwin liked my last sentence ‘…power over women’ but he did not like me to use the word ‘showing power’ and asked me to replace it with something else. So, I changed the word with ‘using power’ but he still did not approve it. Then, I decided to write my second thesis statement on the board because I think it sounds better than the first one. Luckily, Dr. Edwin accepted it and I was happy!

Intan Shuhada Masri
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