2 to 3 pages essay

Thesis Statement Worksheet

Synthesize essay: review of the critical literature

1. Your Research Question. The question you want to answer. The ideas you want to know more about.

How is the theme of marriage portrayed in the “Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin?

2. Your topic (Funnel Method):

A. Broad topic:

The negative depiction of marriage

B. Narrowed topic:

Interplay of female independence

C. Final topic:

Theme of love

3. Your big controlling idea, i.e., your arguable and defensible claim, argument, opinion, point-of-view.

The main idea in this story is that Kate Chopin Portrays a negative perception of marriage, love by presenting the audience with an extensively overjoyed woman over the death of her husband.

4. Thesis Statement (Topic + controlling idea). Your argument. Your point of view.

Kate Chopin evaluates several issues majorly involved in negatively depicting issues of marriage, love, female independence through the short and effective characterization of the apparently widowed Louise Mallard in her last hours.

5. Key points you want to argue:

A. marriage

B. female independence

C. love