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Heres an Example of How Hooks

Work:

Essay Question: What caused the

Community in The Giver to eventually

become a flawed and twisted Utopia?

Thesis Statement: While theCommunity started as a noble attempt

at creatin a Utopia! eventually it lost

touch with its own history and

sheltered its members from all the

pain of the world! leadin to itsdownfall"


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#$W C$U%& '$U (EG)* T#)S?

+, -hetorical Question:

What kind of person would you be now if

you could never look back at all the

mistakes youve made in your life? Can

people ever grow if they cant look back?


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., /ivid )mae:

A stack of colorful bound leather

encyclopedias sit, gathering dust on shelves

stacked twenty feet high, untouched for

centuries. Their pages turn brown and dry

from neglect as they sit hidden from those

who need them most.


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0, (old Statement:

e who never learns history is often bound

to repeat it.


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1, 2naloy or Comparison

The rampant, hatred and anti!"emitism that

overtook #ermany before and during World

War $ led to one of historys most horrific

genocides. Adolf itler and the %a&is killed

countless millions of 'ews in the name of

(racial purity). Their attempt at building aperfect race was eventually stopped and the

lessons we learned from this time in history

have stayed with us and made us more

tolerant people.


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3, E4tended 5etaphor

The Community in *ois *owrys novel The

#iver is like a horse with blinders on, never

being able to look around and appreciatethings or look back and see where its been.


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6, &efinition

+ystopia! a society characteri&ed by misery,

sualor, oppression, disease and

overcrowding


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7, 2 Quote

(The worst part of holding the memories isnot the pain, its the loneliness of it.

-emories need to be shared.)


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8, 2n 2necdote

When was a kid stores offered this thing to

pet owners called a (shock collar.) The

point of it was that every time your dog

would stray too far off, you could tug on it

and it would give a mild (shock) to your

dog and hed eventually learn not to dragyou and the leash all over the place. -y

parents and thought this was cruel. We

refused to buy it. We also spent most of our

time being dragged around by our #erman

"hepherd who which weighed about /$0

pounds and never got properly trained. e

might have learned from a little bit of pain,

but we chose not to e1pose him to it.

*otice! each of these openins has a


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relation to the overall thesis! but they

9ust #)*T at the thesis" They dont

reveal what your essay is aboutimmediately"


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*ow watch me ta;e number seven The worst part of holdin the memories is not the

pain! its the loneliness of it" 5emories need to beshared"

This uote, uttered by the #iver, a character in *ois

*owrys novel, The #iver, speaks of the isolation felt

in a world without memories. ndeed, the 2topian

society at the center of the novel tries desperately to

remove all traces of human suffering from the livesof its members. 3ooks are kept locked up in a store

room and memories are kept locked up in the mind of

the main character, 'onas. While the Community

started as a noble attempt at creatin a Utopia!

eventually it lost touch with its own history and

sheltered its members from all the pain of the

world! leadin to its downfall"

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