For my essay, I chose “Araby” by James Joyce, the thesis statement that I wrote was “He realizes towards the end of doing this that his feelings for the girl have blinded him. Not only that, but he also had high expectations for the bazaar, and this leads the narrator to have a loss of innocence. He realizes that not everything will be how he wants it to be.” I believe that the type of secondary source information that supports my thesis might be analyzing the author’s history with the Catholic Church and how he uses it in his story to “mock” it. He uses religion as well a tremendous amount in “Araby” and one of the secondary sources I found speaks exactly about this. It is a critical essay I found on Gale, and it criticizes Joyce’s use of religion in the story. The author writes about how the girl affected the narrator’s views and beliefs of Catholicism, and I think I could use this as my secondary resource because of my theme that I’m writing about.
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Hey Mike, good starting points but you might want to look over your thesis statement again. As a reader, I find it hard to relate your thesis to your argument, it does not’ clearly explain exactly how his experience relates to the character’s religion. It may also help to shorten it a bit, so it is more to the point. Your secondary resources should be a major help in fleshing out your thesis paper. Best of luck!
I agree with Williams as I also found the thesis statement confusing and it did not really reflect the ideas you wanted to write about. I do think that you have an strong argument and it is actually quite interesting as I haven’t viewed the short story “Araby” from that point of view before. I also agree with what Williams said about how the secondary sources should help out with providing context and body for your research paper.