Place your thesis statement as the last sentence of the first paragraph.
Dedicate your whole essay to proving you are right.
Repeat a similar statement in your conclusion.
1. ADVERTISEMENT ANALYSIS
With highly strategic, subtle, and psychological images, messages, fonts, and symbols,
Abercrombie & Fitch ads continue to persuade consumers to pay far too much for clothing that cannot make anyone truly possess improved beauty or self-worth.
2. ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM ARGUMENT
Anti-intellectualism is rampant in America, but no where is stupidity and superficiality more rewarded than on MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” where “muscles and mammaries over minds” is the only lauded, acceptable maxim.
3. ANTICIPATION GUIDE STATEMENT
Statement #11 “ Memories are some of the most important things we possess” resonates with readers of The Giver because this statement commands attention and leads us to deem it profoundly true.
4. BINARY OPPOSITIONS ANALYSIS
An extremely revealing and salient binary opposition in The Giver is organic vs. robotic— once scholars focus on this binary, critical thinking possibilities abound.
5. CHARACTER ANALYSIS
If readers analyze Fiona’s portrayal, role, and traits, we can experience great epiphanies about Lowry’s themes of desire in The Giver.
6. DREAM ANALYSIS
Each of the seemingly random objects in my dream—the convertible, Brad Pitt, the squirrel, and the hands-to-doves transformation—should and can be viewed as revealing a vital
“truth” about me.
7. FILM ANALYSIS
Because of No Country for Old Men’s unique wide and tight camera angles and the lack of any soundtrack whatsoever, the viewer becomes enmeshed in an introspective analysis of human evil and cruelty.
Because Disney’s Wall-E possesses such astonishing visual and audio effects, the powerful themes about human happiness and horror are absorbed by even the youngest viewer.
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8. HERO ANALYSIS
My mom is my hero because she behaves selflessly and saintly even in the most adverse conditions.
9. LENS ANALYSIS
Of all literary approaches, the Marxist lens best magnifies the essential meaning of Lois
Lowry’s salient The Giver.
10. LITERACY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Because of early Bible studies with my mom, mature film analysis with my dad, and rigorous expectations with two high school English teachers, I am now empowered to analyze sophisticated literature.
11. METAPHOR ANALYSIS
The war game Asher, Fiona, and other kids are playing surges as the most profound metaphor in Lowry’s The Giver.
12. MY BEST QUALITY
My best quality is loyalty to that which is good to me; as soon as a system proves itself to be great to me, I will devote all I can to that system.
13. NOVEL EXCERPT
Poignant and perfectly positioned, the passage during which the Giver speaks about his bond with his “given” daughter, Rosemary, is undervalued by most readers.
14. SYMBOL ANALYSIS
The pill the community members must take each morning stands out as the central symbol in The Giver because it signifies the rigid regimentation Americans are expected to “swallow” every morning of their lives.
15. WHY? ANALYSIS
Go beyond the obvious; pizza is wildly popular in America because it is round, freezable, and has handles.
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