English Paper ( thesis + tipic sentences )?

Question

I am writing a paper on the great gatsby by fitzgerald. I need some help making topic sentences out of my thesis. Heres my thesis.

In Fitz Gerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby, the strongest theme, the corruption of the American Dream, resounds throughout the novel.

I need some help making topic sentences out of that. The 4 Paragraphs i will be using will be about ( how ) Daisy, Gatsby, George, and Tom demonstrate the failure of the american dream

Thanks in advance for the help

Answer 1

You're close already. How about:

In Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby, the theme that resounds throughout the novel is the corruption of the American dream.

Possible continuation in the opening paragraph: In this essay I will show how four major characters, Daisy, Gatsby, George, and Tom, exemplify this corruption.

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

It sounds like you've got good organized paragraphs already. And with one character and one failure per paragraph, your topic sentences will be easy. They would go something like this:

First, Gatsby demonstrates the failure of the American Dream in his [whatever his failure is]...

Next, Daisy demonstrates the failure of the American dream by her [whatever her failure is]...

Thirdly, George's failure demonstrates the failure of the American dream in his [insert failure here]...

Finally, Tom demonstrates the failure of the American dream by his [insert failure here].

Of course you can jazz up the writing with nicer verbs and whatever, but that is basically all you have to do for a topic sentence: summarize what you're about to tell them.

Answer 3

Thesis: In F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby, the strongest theme, the corruption of the American Dream, resounds throughout the novel. Topic sentence: The characters Daisy, Gatsby, George, and Tom all demonstrate the failure of the American dream.