A good thesis statement
will make some kind of arguable claim that can be defended with evidence from the text (i.e.
quotations) as well as offer some idea of how that claim will be argued. You might choose to
draw some conclusion from the fact that the only dynamic character, one who changes
fundamentally in the text, affects the story's meaning. Dee does not change during the course of
events presented by the text; when she arrives home, her idea of heritage is that it is
something to be preserved and not something to be honored by continuing to live it, and she
leaves with this same idea.
When we meet Maggie, she is quiet and reserved,
and she finishes the story that way as well. Her mother, however, has learned to see Maggie in a
new light, to value her and her care and concern for their family's heritage in contrast to
Dee's failure to learn the stories about the artifacts she so covets. Mrs. Johnson's change,
from trying to please the demanding and destructive Dee to learning to...
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