Monday, November 3, 2008

Thesis statements and topic sentences

Open ended thesis statement: The god with the most human characteristics is Calypso because she fell in love with Odysseus.
List Thesis Statement: The god with the most human characteristics is Calypso because she fell in love with a human, protected him, and didn’t want him to leave. This shows that she has strong emotions and can feel love for humans not just gods.
Topic Sentence 1- First, Calypso is the most human-like because she shows her feelings of love for Odysseus.
Topic Sentence 2- Second, she protected Odysseus from Zeus’s messenger Hermes from taking him away showing her feelings of attachment.
Topic Sentence 3- Last, she didn’t want Odysseus to leave so they could be together forever

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