What is your hypothesis at this point for how to answer the question of your working thesis?

Hi , I have attached the instructions for the final paper , I am trying to figure out the outline and thesis now so that I can make a paper. Assignment
Paper two continues to practice conducting analysis, changing the focus of that analysis from a visual text to a written one. The same analytical tools of observation and interpretation that were exercised in the first paper will be exercised again in this assignment.

To begin, you will choose to focus on one of the short stories that I have included on our course site. Together in class, we will read and discuss one or two short stories (neither of which are options for you to write about in this essay) and you should apply the ideas from those course discussions to make your own analysis of whichever story you choose. As part of making an analysis of a short story, I suggest that you do two things.

First: Choose one specific aspect of the text on which you will focus. This aspect could be a literary device or element of the text, such as the type of narration used, the setting of the work, the character development in the work, etc., but this aspect could also be an idea or theme that is present in the work, such as the role of gender, politics, values, etc. (this is sometimes a better focus). Focusing on a single aspect of the text will help you to focus your topic, ensuring that your essay will not be a summary of the work.

Second: Interpret what the significance is of the aspect of the work on which you are focusing. If you are focusing on an aspect of how the work is written, your interpretation/the thesis of your essay should focus on explaining why it is important that the work is written in that specific way. For example, your thesis could focus on explaining how the authors choice to use a third person omniscient narrator allows the author to accomplish something. If you are focusing on a specific idea of the work, you could push your interpretation further by considering what the portrayal of that idea might say about an element of society (what might it say about social class, gender roles, racial relationships, etc.)

Out of the thought process described above, your essay will flow. The goal of this essay is to present a thesis that clearly states an interpretation (one that is not obvious) of some aspect of your short story and to support that interpretation by pointing to examples from the story, explaining the significance of those examples in relation to your interpretation.

Note: While some summary of the short story may be necessary, assume that your readers are already familiar with it, only summarizing parts that support your thesis. This essay should not summarize just to summarize. Also, remember that the narrator and the author are not the same person (the narrator is a fictional creation, like any other character), so do not interpret the story as saying something about the author.

Getting Started
Begin by being very familiar with the short story that you choose by rereading it several times. First, read it just for comprehension and to get an idea of what aspect you might focus on. Then, read it again with a focus on a specific aspect of the text, marking (underline and write notes in the margins) the text up whenever you notice that aspect coming up, repeating this focused reading as necessary.

This is the instructions for the outline
Literary Analysis Thesis and Organization Workshop
The idea of what follows is to be a practical workshop that you can go through yourself to develop the outline that is due this week. Before you can do this, you have to have done the ground work, so be sure that you’ve completed the previous workshop/assignment that began with making a list of 20 observations. Once you have done your data gathering, though, let’s turn that into an essay that will all work together to support one clear idea.

As one final thought before we jump into the steps, be sure that you use this process to narrow your focus. I titled this lecture “Say More About Less.” Writing Analytically has a tool called “10 on 1,” where the idea is to say ten things about one topic, not to say one thing about ten topics. The basic logic is that it will nearly always be more interesting to say more about less because then you start to go into greater detail, not scratching the surface but taking a deep dive. That is why the first step of this workshop will be to start narrowing that focus. So, here we go…

First Create a working thesis. Remember, youre making a first draft thesis at this point, not a final draft thesis. A question is not acceptable in the final draft, but it could be ok in the first draft. Write your initial thesis below. Here are some potential models that your thesis could follow (choose what fits best):
The crux of this story is ____________. Which is the best interpretation?
An interesting aspect of the story is ______________. What is I.R.S. about the use of this aspect in the story?
While this story seems to be about ___________, what else might it be about?

What is your hypothesis at this point for how to answer the question of your working thesis? Write that initial answer to making a final working thesis.

For the working thesis that you identified here, sketch out what evidence/details in the story fits with and supports that idea. Looking over the evidence that you listed, start grouping that evidence into categories of similar types of evidence. Remember, it is fine and even good if details in the same group come from different parts of the story.

For the different groupings of evidence that you made, write a topic sentence that summarizes the idea that each grouping of evidence is supporting, presenting that as a body point’s main idea, listing the evidence/details underneath that main idea as support.
Out of this work, present the outline of what you’ll develop in your essay, stating the working thesis first, then presenting the body points, with the details under each of those for how you’ll support each body point.

I am wanting to have my points together with the support and the thesis. But I am struggling writing is my worst subject

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