introhandout - Raw Materials: Thesis and related quotation Example 1 THESIS STATEMENT In Ayn Rands novel Anthem the author shows the protagonist

Raw Materials: Thesis and related quotationExample 1 THESIS STATEMENT In Ayn Rand’s novelAnthem, the author shows the protagonist, Equality, changing from a collectivist to and individualist, which she conveys through imagery, plot and metaphor. QUOTATION “All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individualthinks. Only the individualreasons. Only the individualacts.” ― Ludwig von Mises,Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis Example showing how to bridge the thought from the quotation (epigraph) to the thesis All rational action is in the first place individualaction. Only the individualthinks. Only the individualreasons. Only the individualacts Ludwig von Mises Mise’s emphasis on the importance of the individual matches the views of Ayn Rand as she expresses them in her novel,Anthem. The novel’s main character, Equality, follows Mise’s pattern:firstacting, thenthinkingand finallyreasoningabout his situation. The result is that Rand depicts Equality changing from and individualist to a collectivist, which she expresses through imagery, plot and metaphor.

At the start of the process, Rand creates and image to show how Equality starts out as an individualist. Raw Materials: Thesis and related quotation Example 2 THESIS STATEMENT In Ayn Rand’s novelAnthem, the author shows the protagonist, Equality, changing from a collectivist to and individualist, which she conveys through imagery, plot and metaphor. QUOTATION Remember always that you not only have therightto be an individualyou have anobligationto be one. Eleanor Roosevelt

Example showing how to bridge the thought from the quotation (epigraph) to the thesis Remember always that you not only have therightto be anindividualyou have anobligationto be one. Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt’s observation describes Ayn Rand’s novelAnthemperfectly. Equality, the main character in the novel,becomes anindividualist because he feels he has therightwhen he discovers new information and because he comes to feel anobligationto share his new understandings with his society. Rand shows how Equality changes from being a collectivist to an individualist, which she conveys through imagery, plot and metaphor. At the start of the process, Rand creates and image to show how Equality starts out as an individualist. Raw Materials: Thesis and related quotation disagreeingExample 3: THESIS STATEMENT In Ayn Rand’s novelAnthem, the author shows the protagonist, Equality, changing from a collectivist to and individualist, which she conveys through imagery, plot and metaphor.