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1210xx Original Compare Contrast Essay

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TOPIC: Protagonists in Holes and IBD

Introductory Paragraph Hook: How would you fare if you were placed in a life and death situation which depended upon your survival skills?

Background Information: discuss the Survival genre, which began with Robinson Crusoe, but maybe even earlier with Jonah and the whale

Two Items to be Compared: name books, characters, immediate similarities

Thesis: each character had strengths and personalities which allowed them to survive

First Item/Topic Sentence: description of how Karana came to be stranded

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Closing Sentence:

Second Item/Topic Sentence: description of how Stanley came to be at Camp Green Lake

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Other Point of View Acknowledged:

Summary Sentence:

Now That This is Known... (how does this information benefit the reader, or anyone else?