9p - Response to Literature: Sample Intro

Y'all,

Here's how I want it done.  My sample introduction:

Sexy.  Foreign.  Exotic.  We all hope to be memorable, beautiful, and exciting, and in the chapter "Sally" from Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, we see how Esperanza, the narrator, feels the same way.  In this chapter, Esperanza relates how she wants to be like the unusual and mysterious Sally, and we see Esperanza's longing for something more than she has.  Cisneros uses simile and metaphor to show that Esperanza both envies and adores Sally.  This envy and adoration fuel Esperanza’s fire to escape the confines of her poverty.


What's with the colors?  The colors indicate the BASICS of an Intro paragraph for this Response to Literature essay:

Yellow - two literary devices
Green - the thesis, which states that "The Author uses _____ and ______ in order to ________"
Pink - a hook, or some language enticing me to read
Orange - the Author's full name and the title of the work, underlined or italicized