Outline for Essay

Cassie Seidel    11/16/10

Main Point or Thesis:  Why Dill and I are lonesome.

Bell Word: loneliness

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Hook: We are lonesome on many different ways

Comment: As a person we have been lonesome

Comment: We can get over loneliness

Thesis: There are many ways that we are lonesome

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TS: Dill is very lonely

Bell words: solitude, alienated

              SD: Dill was extremely alienated

                                 CM: Jem said that children couldn’t, “Hold something in their mind about a little while

                                 CM: Dill found that Jem had changed and he was excluded

             SD: Dill felt separated from his parents

                                  CM: They didn’t love him

                                  CM: He had nowhere else to go

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TS: I am sometimes lonely

Bell words: withdrawal, lonesomeness

             SD: I feel that I am the only one who cares

                                  CM: about what I feel

                                  CM: about what others feel

             SD: When I am all alone

                                    CM: At home

                                    CM: At school

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Hook: How we are lonely

Comment: We can help ourselves

Comment: How we can help ourselves

Thesis (restated): We are all lonsome