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Thesis statement help?
This is my introductory paragraph and thesis statement for a high school research paper, the last sentence being my thesis statement:
Society loves to turn innocence into scandal. People inject controversial issues into beloved pieces of literature and create something the author didn't put there. People have been doing just that to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, especially when in regards to race and cultural diversity. Society would love to brand this beloved author as a racist. Contrary to popular belief, Tolkien's epic The Lord of the Rings does not show preference of one race over another, and therefore, shows that Tolkien himself cannot logically be painted a racist.
It has been said that it is too vague, but I do not know how to narrow it down. Any ideas?
3 Answers
- mr. rooLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Perhaps:
"...The Lord of the Rings does not show preference of one race over another, and therefore, provides no evidence for the assertion that Tolkien was a racist."
The fact that LOTR doesn't show any racial preference doesn't prove Tolkien wasn't a racist, it just shows that you can't use LOTR to assert that he might have been.
- 1 decade ago
Your thesis is too vague. That is what research is for. Having established a thesis, now you research to prove/disprove your thesis. In the process of research and gathering your evidence, you will narrow your thesis down to a finely honed knife. But now you have to do the research. By design your research net should be broad. You have numerous 'good' races, all of them endless described, both positive and negative characteristics. How does Tolkien balance each race, how does he show the strengths and weaknesses of each race, how does he show their necessity to the development of the story? And how does he handle the problem of intrinsically 'evil' races like the orks an goblins? Where do these 'evil' races come from? How are they used as foils for the the 'good' races? How is Tolkien's 'race' different from what we consider to be 'race'. How is it similar?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
the closest, one could say of the Lord of the Rings, is species particular........but even still, this does NOT hold water as the races intermix among each other, Gandalf after all is half elf....the you have reverece being shown unto the hobbits.....it si the epic struggle between good and evil......and people tend to hate the bad guys more if they are ugly too........many bad guys, they aren't hated because someone finds them attractive......but he WANTED these guys to be hated, not because of being a different species, but rather because of the hatred they were to represent......the evil was to be apparent for all too see............in real life, the evil ones usually look pleasing to the eye, and we can't tell until it is too later.........but in the movies, we can make that evil very apparent on the outside, rather then hidden, leaving no room for a misunderstanding
