- Identify two possible topics for your paper (examples - you may explore and identify the messages, themes, character motivations, or character development, etc.).
- Give a thesis statement based off of your first choice topic and put it in the following format:
In the novel, (italicized title), by (author) … (your main point - example- the main character wrestles with a crisis of identity as a biracial young woman in America).
- Find two articles that you may want to use to support your thesis. Look on Eastern’s library page to search for them.