I need help with a good thesis statement on forgiveness.

For a
simple five-paragraph essay, forgiveness can be an unwieldy concept. Its the same as writing an
essay on the meaning of love: impossible to do well in less than five hundred words, unless you
connect forgiveness to a very tangible, concrete situation.

Have you recently
read any novels (for school or outside of school) that connect to the theme of forgiveness? If
your high school or middle school reads The Kite Runner, you could connect
Amirs guilt over his failure to protect Hassan from violence, and its repercussions twenty years
later. If your school reads any memoirs, like Marjane Satrapis Persepolis
or Elie Wiesels Night, you could discuss how each work's author/
forgives/doesnt forgive their persecutors.

Have you thought about writing a
thesis statement on a current issue? For example, you could easily research the idea of
forgiveness as it relates to debates over the death penalty, or in an even more recent current
event, the forgiveness extended by the family members of those murdered in the Charleston
shooting.

Start with this link to NPR to research the death penalty debate.
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/22/400445794/debate-is-it-time-to-abolish-the-death-penalty