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Student Sample One
Thesis excerpt: Connie mistakes music as a sacred force of protection because it gives her pleasure, failing to realize that it is actually a force of self-destruction. -
Student Sample Essay Two
Thesis excerpt: society’s superficiality leads to the death of innocence through the metaphor of popular music as a corrupting influence. -
Student Sample Three
Oates uses the repetition of disguises and appearances in the harsh adult world and emphasizes the honesty and safety of the youthful domestic world to draw contrast between the two realms, and to show Connie’s transition from one to the other.
