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Organization Choices TS2 After he leaves his home and father, Pip, the prodigal, squanders his inheritance on a life of dissipation. Thesis: In A Tale of Two Cities, the battle between the human and the inhuman is resolved, with Stryver fleeing as a hypocrite and the unlikely Carton rising as a phoenix to save humanity. Organization Choices TS1 The reader first meets Stryver, the self-important opportunist, contrasted to Carton, a self-deprecating servant, at the trial of Charles Darnay in the Old Bailey. TS2 Next, in Stryver’s office the reader glimpses the nightly business interactions between an underestimate jackal and a roaring lion. CHECK THE DICTION OF THE TOPIC SENTENCES WORD GLUE Does the writer use word glue to connect the topic with the thesis? The writer may use synonyms or exact words. The writer or reader should be able to draw circles around common words in the thesis and topic sentences. If the writer cannot, the reader might not understand how the writer plans to prove the argument. Look at the example which follows: CHECK THE DICTION OF THE TOPIC SENTENCES ORIGINAL FIRST TOPIC SENTENCE Pip lives in a household of violence and poor relationships. (plot detail) REVISED Pip first encounters the impressionable stage of childhood, wherein Pip is not yet able to evaluate situations critically; consequently, Pip surmises an association between hands and acrimonious relationships. CHECK THE DICTION OF THE TOPIC SENTENCES ORIGINIAL SECOND TOPIC SENTENCE Pip begins to hate his life at the forge after he visits Miss Havisham and Estella. (fact from a chapter) REVISED Shortly after early childhood, Pip begins to grow into the more contemplative stage of preadolescence, a stage in which he begins to question his surroundings as well as draw conclusions about them. Thesis Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” illustrates man’s proclivity since the Fall to sin without cause, to possess the opportunity of reconciliation, and to have the option to d