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A thesis statement is found in the first paragraph. It generally has a list of three things, though it can be more, that are the main topics you'll be discussing in your essay.
For example, "Tigers are the best of the big cats because of their loud voices, bright coloring, and social structure."
A. She in turn had told him - indeed, had summoned him in order to entrust him with - another story, one from long ago, before the Civil War.
B. Most of the time, it’s a white character using the word - or, most conspicuously, the novel itself, in ts voice - with an uglier edge
C. The same few passages, in the very first pages, remind me of this - they’re markings on an entryway - sudden bursts of bristly adjective clusters.
D. It may represent the colosseum American literature came to producing an analog for “Ulysses,” which influenced it deeply - each in its way is a provincial Modernist novel about a young man trying to awaken from history - and like “Ulysses,” it lives as a book more praised than read, or more esteemed than enjoyed.