Model Paragraph
For each of your body paragraphs, be sure to include:
a. topic sentence
b. context of the quotation
c. quotation
d. reflection/analysis (3-4 sentences)
Model Paragraph: Use the following paragraph as model for paragraph structure.
Although Beatty argues that books are meaningless because they contradict each other and confuse their readers, Faber believes books are essential to a meaningful life. He explains to Montag that it is not books in themselves that matter so much, but what is in books. Books “show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers.” The very contradictions that Beatty despises are what Faber argues make books invaluable. Books reflect the truth of life and just as the world contains millions of people with different experiences and different viewpoints, books reveal to us the diversity of thought in our world. Rather than confuse us, these “contradictions,” these “pores” show us not only the good and the bad, but all the detail in between. These “pores” show us all the gray areas between the black and white of different opinions. They show us moments so full of anguish and suffering that we can see the happiness in our ordinary lives. The people of the 451 society just want a “perfect” world without pores or flaws, but they don’t realize that a world without flaws is an empty, superficial world without substance.
*a transition may begin or end the paragraph in order to make the connections between each topic clearer.
Rather than confuse us by contradicting each other, books with different viewpoints help us to develop our own opinions.