For this blog post, we are supposed to share with our classmates what we are going to write our first essay about. Our class was given three thesis statements and instructed to pick one and have the thesis statement in mind when reading the story. I started writting my paper on thesis statement number 3 as followed.....
Bartleby is a martyr figure who serves to expose the ineffectiveness of what claims to be a christian charity in 19th century american society.
I chose to write about this thesis statement because not only was the lawyer tring to help Bartleby but the lawyer didn't go out of his way to help Bartleby, if that makes any sense. I find it personally funny in some odd way because in certain parts of the story for instance (par.94) the lawyer was willing to help but in (par.190) the lawyer says "In vain I persisted that Bartleby was nothing to me-no more than to anyone else".
So I hope you know where I am coming from, here are my claims followed by evidence!
Claim 1:
(par. 88) Basically the lawyer knows that Bartleby is living out of his office space provided but really doesn't go out of his way to fix the problem.
Evidence 1:
(par. 94) goes into detail how the lawyer tries to help Bartleby but doesn't go out of his way to try and find out why he is living in the office space so with that being said he just left it where it was.
Claim 2:
(par.170) The lawyer is trying to get rid of Bartleby as best he can.
Evidence 2:
(par. 171) The lawyer is starting to care for Bartleby but not as much as he intends to because at the same time he wants Bartlby gone.
Claim 3:
(par.172) The lawyer feels that if he abandons Bartleby, the problem will resolve itself and it will no longer be the lawyer's problem.
Evidence 3:
(par.177) Shows that the lawyer left Bartleby behind which makes the lawyer think he will be problem-free in the near future and wouldn't have to attend to Bartleby anymore.
Claim 4:
(par. 197) The lawyer really didn't care about what was going to happen to Bartleby anymore.
Evidence 4:
(par.190) The lawyer didn't want anything to do with bartleby anymore.
I really liked your ideas in this post and how you presented them. I think breaking parts of the story down into claims and then providing the evidence was a quick and easy way to understand and follow the story. I am sure you will do very well on the essay because of your creative break down of the story.
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