Your paragraph should include, in this order:
1.
Topic Sentence
2.
Set-up / Establish the context (What’s happening
when your quote is spoken?)
3.
Quotation (Punctuate it properly – use your
models!)
4.
Analysis (Why does the quote prove your point?)
5.
Closing sentence (How does this event help cause
the death?)
Be sure to write about literature in the
present tense.
Sample paragraph:
One
time sloth leads to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is when Friar John fails to
deliver Friar Laurence’s letter to Romeo. First, if Friar Laurence wasn’t so
lazy, he would have delivered the letter himself. Everybody knows that if you
want something done right, you have to do it yourself. Also, Friar John should
have worked harder to deliver the letter. When he returns to Friar Laurence’s
cell, he says, “I could not send it – here it is again – / Nor get a messenger
to bring it thee ” (V, ii, 14-5). With even a little effort, he could have
outsmarted the guards and accomplished his task. He didn’t even try to find
someone to help him. Instead, he just gave up and returned to Verona. He must
have known the letter was important, but he didn’t even try. If either Friar
Laurence or Friar John had been less slothful and more energetic, Romeo would
have learned of the plan beforehand, and he never would have rushed to commit
suicide.
