My Position Paper

From the very start after knowing the fact that I need to do a position paper for EDU3234, I kept thinking about what text that I would choose for it. In my 6 years of learning in this course (including my 2 years of foundation course) I have learned more than 20 texts that I can use for my position paper. However, choosing the right text for it is a very tricky job. One main priority that I use to choose the text is that it needs to be a text that I understand and like. After thinking for about a week, I decided to choose “Of Mice and men” by John Steinbeck, a novel that I learned in my foundation course. “Of Mice and Men” is a dark tale of men’s journey through pitiful, brutal and inhumane world and in this story, John Steinbeck focused on two main characters which are George and Lennie. It is a very interesting and emotional story that I think I could relate to. As John Steinbeck always interested in loneliness and human, I also wanted to do a thesis statement on loneliness which is also a theme of the story. Due to that reason, I come out with a thesis statement that I think would be a good motion for me to discuss in the position paper. It is, “All human being are longing for companionship in order for them to have purpose in life”. I wanted to discuss the theme of loneliness in the story and also the need of companion in life. I wanted to show that companion is a major need in human life and how does companionship contribute to purpose in life. After I come out with the thesis statement, I quickly showed it to my tutor for approval and luckily my thesis statement is accepted. However, he asked to me to work on the thesis statement so that my point would be much stronger and I have more supporting details for that thesis statement.