56. End a body paragraph with a topic sentence

56. End a body paragraph with a topic sentence:

Standard analysis paragraphs begin with a topic sentence or transitional topic sentence that indicates the subject of the analysis of the quotation. By beginning a paragraph with the context of the quotation, a writer can vary his paragraph structures by ending the paragraph with a topic sentence. So, all of the information: context, condense, connect, close read culminate in the final sentence of the paragraph.

STANDARD PARAGRAPH: transitional topic sentence, link, introduction to the quotation, context, condense, connection.

THESIS: Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time is not just against war; it is against all cruelty, violence, and immorality.

Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams sees and rejects violence in the everyday world after WWI. (Topic Sentence) Nick is a reporter in Spain when he sees a bullfight. The details are gruesome and brutal, but the people in the stands actually enjoy it! (links) The omniscient narrator in the story writes: (Intro)

He felt warm and sticky from the bleeding…Sometimes the bull

only bumped him with his head. Once the horn went all the way

through him and he felt it go into the sand…They were swearing

at him and flapping the cape in his face.

(Hemingway 131).

At this point in the text Nick has left home, enlisted, and been shot in the spine to earn him leave from the war. After the war he stays on in Europe and explores. (context) In the above passage the violence toward the bull and the matador is horrifying. The matador has been gored to death. (condense) This so called entertainment would chill anyone to the bone. How can anyone live to be a kind or at least empathetic person in a world where we turn to the agony and torture of animals and other human beings? In Our Time is arguing that because we live and have always lived in a culture where cruelty is common, malice will continue to be an acceptable and unnoticed occurrence in the world. (connect)

END WITH THE TOPIC SENTENCE PARAGRAPH:

Our sometimes protagonist, Nick has left home, enlisted, and been shot in the spine to earn him leave from the war. After the war he stays on in Europe and explores. In this passage the violence toward the bull and the matador is horrifying. (context) The details are gruesome and brutal, but the people in the stands actually enjoy it! The omniscient narrator in the story writes: (intro)

He felt warm and sticky from the bleeding…Sometimes the bull

only bumped him with his head. Once the horn went all the way

through him and he felt it go into the sand…They were swearing

at him and flapping the cape in his face.

(Hemingway 131).

The matador has been gored to death. This so called entertainment would chill anyone to the bone. (condense) How can anyone live to be a kind or at least empathetic person in a world where we turn to the agony and torture of animals and other human beings? ? In Our Time is arguing that because we live and have always lived in a culture where cruelty is common, malice will continue to be an acceptable and unnoticed occurrence in the world. (connect) Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams sees and rejects violence in the everyday world after WWI. (Topic Sentence)