#3 First Body Paragraph

Post your first body paragraph.

Remember that your introductory sentence must establish the topic of your paragraph. The concluding sentence must wrap it all up and tie your paragraph back to your thesis.
DUE10/28

THIS EXAMPLE SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE STRUCTURE OF YOUR PARAGRAPH.

Thesis: The colors white, yellow, and green, represent the materialistic values that lead to corruption

I. White
A. Wedding Cake Ceiling (p. 12)
B. Gatsby’s suit (p. 89)
C. Daisy’s name

II. Yellow
A. Daisy’s name
B. Cocktail Music (p. 44)
C. Gatsby’s car (p. 68)

II. Green
A. Gatsby’s car (p. 68)
B. Green breast of land (p. 189)
C. Light on Daisy’s dock (p.25-26)

First Body Paragraph

TS—One materialistic color, the color white, indicates emptiness as it relates to money in their lives.

CD—For example, when Nick visits Daisy for the first time, he sees the “frosted wedding cake of the ceiling” and windows “gleaming white” (12).

CM—(This shows that) Their mansion with its fancy windows and ceiling reveals the colorlessness of their marriage and the shallowness of their hearts.

CD—In addition, when Gatsby comes to meet Daisy at Nick’s house for the first time in five years, he wears an all-white flannel suit.

CM—(This shows that) The relationship between the two lovers has no basis because of Gatsby’s false wealth and identity.

There is more to write for this paragraph, but we will work on that in class. What I want you to take from this is the structure of the paragraph.