Question

so with the Ethan Frome thing. Im asking if people have read it because I need help writing a thesis for my topic for an essay.

My topic is comparing Ned and Ruth Varnums sled crash to Mattie and Ethans suicide sled attempt.

Here is a link to a summary of the whole book. I hope someone can help me with a thesis.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frome/summary.html

Answer 1

@e.cociuba @Compassionate

Answer 2

Have not read it.

Answer 3

i put a link of the summary of the whole novella. its a 2min read the summary

Answer 4

You're comparing two characters.

>>> http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frome/characters.html

You need a character list.
You're welcome. This will take literally 10 minutes.

Answer 5

im not comparing the characters. im comparing the 2 accidents. and im only asking for help because the worst part of my essays is always my thesis.

Answer 6

Read the character's synopsis

Answer 7

y cant u help me? i thought this was a site were ppl HELP each other

Answer 8

If we wrote your thesis for you, that would be plagiarism..

Answer 9

Your thesis is just what you are going to be talking about in your body paragraphs and your viewpoint on it.

Answer 10

@shamil98 id never copy word for word. i just need a losely constructed thesis to add a whole bunch of detail to

Answer 11

Who are Ned and Ruth? I didn't read about that.

Here is what I got

>Ethan and Maddie were lovers
>They loved each other, but didn't want to leave
>Maddie proposed a double-suicide (Like, in Romeo and Juliet)
>Ethan rejected, but Maddie kept seducing him per say (Like Adam and Eve)
>Eventually, they agreed, to end it all, out of love and happiness
>The tragic ending was that, Ethan died, and Maddie stayed alive
>The starstruck lovers separated
>Ethan's wife never fired Maddie - they lived together and grew old
>Two women loved the same man, and in the end, will both, too, die together.

Answer 12

your pretty much right @Compassionate except for the fact that Ethan becomes an injured cripple who is able to still do simple work around the farm. And mattie has to be nurtured by Zeena.

Answer 13

Ethan died.

>Together, they mourn the tragic plight of the silent, cursed man and the two women fated to keep him company during the long New England winter nights.

Answer 14

Ethan did not die. I no that as a fact.

Answer 15

Well - the synopsis made it sound like he did.

You can handle it form here.

Answer 16

You are writing a thesis for a paper that compares the two.
Just say something along the lines like:
Along the lines of many tragedies that occur, suicide is one of the worst, especially in the case of Ethan and Maddie, and Ned and Ruth, whose attempts at suicide were horrific and held many tragic similarities.

Answer 17

@Compassionate this is from sparknotes, its from the conlclusion
Thus, everything comes full circle, and the cyclical nature of life on the farm is embodied in the terrible fate of Ethan and the women. Instead of finding escape in suicide, he and Mattie have ended up in a state of living death, in which all Mattie’s vitality has been leeched away, and she has transformed into a carbon copy of her former opposite, Zeena. Zeena herself, appropriately enough, has been restored to greater health by the necessity of caring for her disabled husband and cousin—as if she can be healthy only when others suffer.

Answer 18

You sound literature enough.

You should be able to compare this yourself. I don't even know why you would need help with this. It's extremely easy for someone if your caliber.

Answer 19

I haven't read these stories so yeah ..

Answer 20

@shamil98 arent u supposed to list at least 3 topics in a thesis?

Answer 21

I don't know the similarities, so it's incomplete.

Answer 22

One of them is how they both used sleds?

Answer 23

but for a general thesis format dont u need 3 topics at least?

Answer 24

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/1/

Answer 25

good luck.

Answer 26

@shamil98 if u can wait like 5-7mins for me to finish the thesis can u give me ur opinoin on it? u dont have to have read the novella. u shud atleast be able to give an opinon based on how its formatted?

Answer 27

okay

Answer 28

Shamil, give me a medal real fast.

Answer 29

ok o.o

Answer 30

@shamil98 here it is. what do u think?

what do you think of this

Suicide is one of the worst tradegies that occur, especially in Ethan and Matties case whose suicide attempt ended horrificly, induced by jealously of Ned and Ruth's perfect relationship causes Ethan to not think, the abuse Ethan has suffered from his wife being the trigger for Ethan to go along with Matties suicidal ideaolgy in the end, and Mattie finally snapping after being abandoned by her only family, Zeena.

Answer 31

Ruth's perfect relationship caused* Ethan to not think, the abuse Ethan suffered* (delete has) from his wife became the trigger for Ethan to go along with Matties suicidal ideaolgy. ( delete in the end) its a run on.. your tense is incorrect as well

Answer 32

@shamil98 can you help me?! :)

Answer 33

what is wrong with the tense?

Answer 34

Mattie finally snapping? proofread your thesis.

Answer 35

here is the revised one with ur correction @shamil98

Suicide is one of the worst tragedies that occur, especially in Ethan and Mattie’s case whose suicide attempt ended horrifically, induced by jealously of Ned and Ruth's perfect relationship caused Ethan to not think, the abuse Ethan suffered from his wife became the trigger for Ethan to have gone along with Mattie’s suicidal ideology, and Mattie finally snapping after being abandoned by her only family, Zeena.

also what can i replace with "to not think"?

Answer 36

and i fixed the last line to match the tense

Answer 37

caused Ethan to act irrationally and out of depression

Answer 38

@shamil98 dude. u r the best. thank u so much. *highfive* hopefully we can be friends and help peer edit each other or something in the future?

Answer 39

became the trigger for Ethan to have gone along with Mattie’s suicidal ideology,
became the trigger that resulted in Ethan complying with Mattie's suicidal ideology.
Mattie became suicidal after she was abandoned by the last of her family, Zeena.

Suicide is one of the worst tragedies that occur, especially in Ethan and Mattie’s case whose suicide attempt ended horrifically. Induced by jealously of Ned and Ruth's perfect relationship caused Ethan to think irrationally and out of depression. The abuse Ethan suffered from his wife became the trigger that resulted in Ethan complying with Mattie's suicidal ideology. Mattie, Ethan's partner in the suicidal mission, became suicidal after she was abandoned by the last of her family, Zeena.

Answer 40

May I ask what grade you are in? lol

Answer 41

I didn't say anything, I was wondering for what grade this assignment is for..

Answer 42

and the grade i dont no the point value of but its like 30-35% of my total grade

Answer 43

thanks for the help though @shamil98