Subject matter: Consider McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.
• Identify conflict. How does the conflict move the action (plot)? What is McCarthy saying about people?
• What questions did you find intriguing? Find the one question for which you have a strong opinion and which you can answer with facts, direct quotations, and logic.
• Write one sentence that explains your opinion. Congratulations, you have a thesis.
• Write five pages. Be clear. Use quotations. Consider the counter-argument.
• Please READ and CONSIDER the examples I gave as references.
