Outline for Essay Number 1

SUBJECT Jackson Browne's song, the poem by Langston Hughes, and my life.
Bell word Relationship 

Paragraph 1 -- Opening
Hook Life in general has many connections to other occurrences, but these occurrences dwindle as the parameters increase.
Comment on the hook Life however can be related to a poem by Langston Hughes, A Dream Deferred
Comment on the hook Also, life and this poem can connect to a song by Jackson Browne, For a Dancer
Thesis (with bell word) Life can have a relationship with many things these occurrences can become fewer but life can be related to A Dream Deferred and For a Dancer
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TS (Main Idea, Topic, or Thesis)

Echo words to be used connection similarity correlation  

    SD My life has few connections but I connected my old cat to both the poem and the song                  

         CM My cat was a big cat and his belly thumped along so “Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.”

        CM Also my cat was eaten by a coyote and this is what  thought when we couldn’t find him “I don't remember losing track of you”.
        
    SD When Jackson Browne says “You were always dancing in and out of view” this to me means people in my life come and go

        CM I had some neighbors who used to live next door but they moved away
        CM Every now and then  we get a letter from them and they come back into view
        
    SD When Langston says “or does it just explode” this can be related to the song
        CM Jackson Browne supposedly wrote this song for his girlfriend who commited suicide
        CM Jackson’s girlfriend exploded with feelings because she committed suicide

CS Jackson and Langston wrote about different things but they both have underlying meaning
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TS (Main Idea, Topic, or Thesis)

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    SD Fire in your in For a dancer can be related to the sun

        CM When you look at the sun you have fire in your minds eye

        CM But it is a different fire than A Dream Deferred
        
    SD For a dancer and A dream deferred make you realize how your dreams might not come true

        CM Your dreams might be deferred or they might explode
        CM Some of Jackson Browne’s dreams were destroyed when his wife committed suicide
        
    SD The death of Jackson Browne’s wife might crust over.  
        CM It would not be a sugary sweet
        CM It would be a sore that festers

CS Jackson Browne’s wife commited suicide and it can be related to A dream deferred in many ways
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Hook The relationship of A dream Deferred and For a dancer have more occurrences with greater thought
Echo word
Comment on the hook
Comment on the hook
Re-statementof the thesis