Outline: Loneliness

                                    

Main Point or Thesis of Essay: Loneliness

Bell word: Isolated

Paragraph 1 -- Opening

Hook: Loneliness is unavoidable

Comment on the hook: Even in biggest crowd, can still be lonely

Comment on the hook: Not only when alone

Thesis  (with bell word): Loneliness is a hyena, it pounces when you fall

Paragraph 2

TS (Main Idea, Topic, or Thesis): Dill’s loneliness

2 Echo words to be used: Abandoned, isolated

SD : Dill always lonely and abandoned

CM: Mom busy with new hubby

CM: No siblings or father

SD: Parents love you, no attention

CM: “ The thing is, what I’m trying to say is ---they do get on better without me, I can’t help them any.”

CM: Home isn’t home when no one’s really there.

SD: Dill can’t please parents

CM: “They buy me everything I want, but it’s now-you’ve-got-it-go-play-with-it.”

CM: He is isolated

Paragraph 3

TS (Main Idea, Topic, or Thesis): Why is loneliness so terrible?

2 Echo words to be used: Alone, forlorn

SD: Loneliness is like cancer

CM: You don’t know if it will leave, even if you do the treatment

CM: Getting rid of it doesn’t mean it won’t come back and consume you later

SD: Loneliness is awful

CM: Always alone, always unsure

CM: Burns can hurt your outside, being forlorn can kill your inside

SD: Medicine doesn’t make loneliness go away

CM: Doctors don’t heal the hurt

CM: No proven cure can help; it’s all up to you

CS: Loneliness is the worst disease a human can receive

Paragraph 4

Hook (the same as paragraph 1, or different): Everybody has felt lonely

Echo word (could be bell word): Friendless

Comment on the hook: It’s not something that only a few people get

Comment on the hook: Everyone has felt friendless at one time

Re-statement, in slightly different words, of the thesis: Being lonesome from time to time means that you’re still human

                                                      By Jenn