Identifying Reasons – Possible Topic Sentences
Using the questions you just answered about your character, push your thinking to explain why your claim is true. This is separate than the initial evidence you previously found. Each explanation becomes a reason, which could later serve as the topic sentence of each body paragraph.
Text Title: Swim
Claim: Ruthie from the story 'Swim' by Jennifer Weiner learns that sometimes you have to not let what's past affect your future.
My claim is true because in the story 'Swim', Ruthie has a hard past, but when she finally gets through it, she realizes that even though she still has memories of the problems in the past, she has to not let it affect her future.
Reason 1
When Ruthie is reminded about her past, she leaves it behind and doesn't take those memories into her future, where she doesn't need them.
-Her ex-coworker calls (he betrayed her) and offers her a job. She says no, and she refuses to meet up again, therefore letting the past behind her.
Reason 2
When someone asks her to tell them about her past, she doesn't tell them and doesn't make a big deal of the things that don't matter anymore. She is letting the past go.
Reason 3
She doesn't take her old memories or places and people into her daily life, she instead focuses on the moment during her day and tries to live life for the moment without letting the past affect her.
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