This depends on what you are trying to prove about
Fahrenheit 451. Being a work that demonstrates that man should
value the ability to think for himself, or that the government should never have total
control, I suggest you pick a message (of the two I mentioned) to begin. Then, think
about how the author gets that message to the audience.
I
encourage my students to TAG their thesis statements. This means to use the
title, author and
genre. Then come up with a strong verb like demonstrates,
expresses, delineates, or portrays. Finally describe the message you think you
see.
When you get to topic sentences for writing about a
piece of literature, you might mention in each topic sentence a different strategy the
author uses to get his message across to an audience. In this case, this novel happens
to be a dystopia and that fact drives home many points... you write those points.
Another paragraph might be about character. Another one might be about
plot.
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