Writing a thesis statement; what a challenge…

It might sound easy but it was indeed very difficult and stressful. My first thesis statement for the proposal paper was rejected, and I need to do it again. According to Miss Siti, my thesis statement was of a low level standard and needed to be improved. My first thesis statement was about the cause and effect of Miss Havisham’s vengeance and that was not suitable for this proposal paper. Once again I cracked my brain to come out with a better thesis statement.

As to improve the first thesis statement, I still used the issue of vengeance but this time I specified it on the case of Miss Havisham bringing up Estella. My thesis statement was “Miss Havisahm’s purpose of bringing up Estella is more of vengeance than love in ‘Great Expectation’ by Charles Dickens”. After showing it to Miss Siti, she suggested that I focused on the issue of vengeance and not to mention love in the title. So, I came up with the sentence “Revenge is Miss Havisham’s reason for bringing up Estella in ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens”. At last, Miss Siti approved this and I could continue with the next stage to search for evidences in supporting my argument.

In this process of coming out with appropriate thesis statement, I learned that writing is indeed a tiring process. I remembered what Dr. Jaya had said in his class that writing is a recursive process, and now it made sense to me. Well, it was just a beginning, and there would be more challenges waiting. I now need to prepare myself for them.