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Considering the attached documents, what are some ideas or examples of thesis statements related to the texts "Boys and Girls," Hamlet, "The...

It appears that your instructor is asking you to think of potential thesis statements for essays you might write in the future about your assigned readings. The thesis statement need to address certain themes. 


For the theme of identity, you might state that in "Boys and Girl" the narrator originally has an almost genderless identity as a prepubescent child. In the story she gradually begins to develop the identity of a "girl" as she reaches puberty, and finds this identity quite restrictive, especially in the way that it constructs her as inferior to her brother Laird. You could next mention that her moment of decision comes when she lets the horse Flora escape, giving Flora. albeit only briefly, the freedom she herself is about to lose when confined to the woman's world of the kitchen.


For Hamlet, his identity is established as a Prince of Denmark and yet he too has to make a choice as to whether he will identify with his father and take revenge or support Claudius. You could argue that the decisive moment for him is that in which he decides to assume the identity of avenger of his father, as that sets the subsequent plot in motion. Another important element of identity in the play is that of false identity, of Hamlet pretending to be mad and the actors pretending to be characters of the play within the play. One could even argue that Claudius is in a sense assuming a false identity of King, based on murder an duplicity.


In Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," Harry's identity rests on his role as writer and adventurer and for him these two identities are closely tied together. This identity is closely related to his sense of gender, in which the female appears almost as a threat to his self-identity and independence, and something he blames for his creative dry spell.


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