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Brittany Woodhall 19th July 2010

The Loop Essay Outline

Thesis ideas

People have a need for power by nature

The higher up you strive for, the more radical and harder sacrifices become to get

to the top So what? Only certain people can do it?

If so, does this make them worthy of their gained power, or evil for the grief

theyve caused on others to get their power?

Thesis: Power is sometimes gained by hurting others for ones own benefit; one who

rises from the detriment of others is not a worthy leader.

Four Arguments

Argument: These leaders are often weak, using scape-goats for reasoning rather than

blame themselves.Evidence: Everything seemed to be going wrong lately In fact, now he came to think

of it, everything had been fine and dandy until those goddamn wolves showed up. Well, itwas time to get serious and get rid of them (Evans, 253-254).

Argument: The power one has is often through other peoples efforts, not their own asthey like to let people think.

Evidence: Lovelace remembered the mans father, Henry Calder. His own father used to

call him King Henry and joke about how high and mighty he was (Evans, 257).

Argument: Those who follow are only ones who have the same mindset, but not the

courage to follow through.(or stand up?) (not a good crowd to support you, will notfollow when you fail)Evidence: Clyde was always so keenly tuned to Bucks mood, always a little too eager

to please. Whatever Bucks opinion, it became Clydes as well and if Buck changed his

mind, even if he argued that black wasnt black after all, but white, then Clyde wouldsoon be laboring through paler and paler shades of grey until he got there too (Evans,

187).

Evidence: If you ask me, hes past it. Way too old. I didnt Buck snapped Clydeheld up his hands. Okay, okay. And dont okay, okay me either. Jesus! He slammed

a fist on the steering wheel. (Evans, 342)

Evidence: Dan wants to kill the rest of the wolves Or are we all supposed to call it,

what was it? Oh yeah, lethal control. Dan sighed. They killed one of your fatherscalves. So Dans going to let himself be bullied into doing exactly what your father

wants: get rid of the wolves. No wolves, no wayall you have to do is shout loud

enough. Sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war. Thats bullshit, Dan.Youre just letting Calder push you around If you dont take a stand against people like

him, youll never win the war (Evans, 385-386).

Evidence: Dan was still seething from his encounter with Buck Calder. I told you hewas a piece of work, Rimmer said Piece of something, anyway. Oh, hes okay.

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Reckon his barks bigger than his bite. Hes one of these guys likes to test you, see how

tough you are (Evans, 35).

Argument: By guilt or revenge (by those who were pushed down), one will regret their

choice of path to power.

Evidence: Do you think, Joseph, their life is the same as ours? I mean, what its madeof, that little flicker or spirit or whatever it is, inside them. Do you think its the same as

what we have inside us? No dear of course not. How could it be? Her puzzling seemed

to have drained her, for she closed her eyes and sank back on her pillow, with a faint,contented smile on her lips. Youre right, she sighed. How silly I am. How could it

be? (Evans, 296).

Before he died, the wolfer wanted to say sorry but there was no one to say it to. The

only person whod understand was Winnie and she was dead. He wondered how longshed known about that little flicker, as shed called it, and why she hadnt told him

before, though he knew in his heart hed never have listened (Evans, 372)

Evidence: (Things that were once used as an excuse are coming back to bite the one who

started them in the first place) (INCLUDE CONTEXT) Suddenly, though her shock andoutrage, something hed once said came back to her. She braked hard and skidded to a

stop, then reversed back so that she was looking right down on him from the window.Wanting something can be better than getting it, remember? Think of it as a favor.

(Evans, 357).