Introduce your topic with a hook in the first sentence. First impressions are important so make the reader want to read more by making the very first thing you say interest the audience such as a quote or a fact that relates to the topic.
Give context and background. Talk about your topic on a basic level.
State your rationale. What do you believe about this topic and why do you think that?
Explain why your research is important. Why should the audience/reader be interested?
State your hypothesis or your thesis statement. (I was taught this should be the last thing in the intro paragraph) This is the claim to are making in this paper and all your evidence will point back to your thesis statement/ hypothesis.
I've got some great ones.
Classics:
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- A catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Good books
- Jodi Picoult books (if you are a girl XD)
- Divergent trilogy - Veronica Roth
- John Green books
- The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins
- The Maze Runner Trilogy - James Dashner
.. Just to name a few.
Answer:
A Both sides viewed her as an important person
Miller’s purpose to include this excerpt in the opening narrative was B. to compare the Salem Witch Trials with the political atmosphere of his time.
This introduction in the play signals a foreshadowing of what is going to happen as the events are recalled. However, Miller’s purpose throughout the play is to compare those historical events to what was happening at the time he wrote it. Arthur Miller sought to criticize Senator McCarthy’s prosecution of presumed communists US citizens by comparing it with the Salem Trials, in which innocent people were accused of witchcraft and later hanged.
