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Lesson 3.3: Moving from an Outline to a 5-Paragraph Essay Instructions: Using your chart outline, thesis statement, and restated thesis as notes to help you along in writing a full 5-paragraph essay to compare and contrast Toni Morrison’s “The Work You Do, the Person You Are” with Danial Adkison’s “Drowning in Dishes, but Finding a Home.” Answer: Did you know that over 57% of employees leave their jobs because of their bosses? Two essays which will be explored explain this fact. These essays are “The Work You Do, the Person You Are” by Toni Morrison, and “Drowning in Dishes, but Finding a Home” by Danial Adkison. Morrison’s essay is about her time working as a house cleaner, and how she made the contrast between work and life. She also had a pretty bad boss. Adkison’s essay was also about him working at Pizza Hut but he made his work pretty much his life because he had a good boss. While Morrison uses several stories throughout her life to demonstrate the line between work and life with a bad boss, Adkison sets out to prove, through a series of vivid anecdotes, that a good boss can very easily make your work your life. In “The Work You Do, the Person You Are” by Toni Morrison, Morrison clearly draws a line between work and life since she has a bad boss. The essay starts off describing her work as a house cleaner, “All I …show more content…

They were both teenagers, as Morrison stated in her essay “…for a few hours after school.” (Par. 1) and in Adkison’s essay, “…when I was a freshman in high school.” (Par. 2). They also both worked because of their familial situation. In Morrison’s essay, this is explained in paragraph 3, “The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound.” (Par. 3) She was necessary to her parents. She needed to work. Adkison also needed to work, as explained in paragraph 3, “My relationship with those men was almost always fraught, and I was always looking for reasons to be away from

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