PICTURE BRIDE THESIS PAPER

1. Title of Paper

Title of Book Report related to writing option: Relate to message or focus of thesis – not the book name.

What should go in a title? How should it reflect writing?

WHICH TITLES ARE STRONG AND WELL-DEVELOPED? WHY?

Option 1

Lessons of Picture Bride =

Discrimination: More Effects than One =

Racism within Their Lives =

Option 2

The Lessons that Hana Learned =

What Lessons did Hana Learn? =

What lesson(s) does Hana learn while in America? =

Adaptation, Perseverance and Helping Others =

Option 4

The Right Decision =

Hana’s Correct Choice to Stay in a Bad Camp =

Hana’s Decision =

Logical, Realistic and Loyal =

Option 5

Lessons Learned from Picture Bride and Why They are Important Today =

Thesis Paper for Picture Bride =

The Repetition of History =

Now, Then, Always =

The Relevance of Picture Bride =

WHICH THESIS STATEMENT IS STRONG & WELL-DEVELOPED? WHY?

#1 Theme, lesson, moral, message?
In Picture Bride there are many important messages.	The main themes displayed in Picture Bride are related to the effects of discrimination.
#2 What lesson did Hana learn?
The major lesson Hana learned in the story was that accepting herself and what life gave her would bring her greater happiness than trying to be something she wasn’t.	Throughout Picture Bride, the main character, Hana, learned many invaluable lessons.
#4 Hana’s Decision
Hana made the right decision at the end of the novel by staying at the internment camp.	Hana made the wrong choice of staying.
#5 Why relevant today?
The lessons taught in Picture Bride are very relevant today.	Picture Bride is relevant today because through all time people have been threatened with persecution because of their ethnicity.

The difference between a thesis statement, contention and example

Odysseus was a not a great hero.

He was arrogant, he made some fool-hardy decisions

and he was adulterous.

1. EXAMPLES FOR ARROGANCE

-led crew like a dictator, not letting them in on the decisions or info.

* didn’t tell men that some wouldn’t make it past Scylla.

* didn’t tell men about the wind in the bag.

* didn’t tell men that he was the reason they couldn’t return to I.

-didn’t thank Poseidon for his assistance in the TW.

2. EXAMPLES FOR FOOL-HARDY

- led his men into the Cyclop’s cave.

- told his name to the Cyclop after stealing from him and blinding him.

- After getting his men free from a spell he got the rest for a party.

- killed all the suitors and most of the maids.

3. EXAMPLES FOR ADULTEROUS

Circes and Calypso – both distracted him from his goal

Hana learned many lessons in this story that helped her become a better person.

She learned to take risks for herself,
be giving to others
and to find love and happiness
in the worst of situations.

1. EXAMPLES FOR RISKS

- coming from Japan to US

- marriage to a man she didn’t know

2. EXAMPLES FOR GIVING

- helping Kenji Nishima

- working at church

3. EXAMPLES FOR LOVE AND HAPPINESS

- husband

- best friend