1. Does this essay have an explicitly stated thesis? If so, what is it? If you believe the thesis is
implied, state it in your own words.
I do no think the author really explicitly states the thesis. I feel like he implies the thesis with his title.
2. Besides cause and effect, what other modes of writing that we’ve studied (comparison and
contrast, definition, description, illustration, narration, and process) does King use to develop his
essay? Provide examples from the essay for each mode you list.
I feel like illustration is a big one that he uses. Especially when he states certain things in such great detail such as If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree. If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, heh-heh-heh); if, on the other
hand, your insanity leads you only to talk to yourself when you're under stress or to pick your nose on the morning bus, then you are left alone to go about your business...though it is doubtful that you will ever be invited to the best parties.
3. The last paragraph of this essay is a single sentence. Why do you think King chose to write
such a short concluding paragraph? What effect does it have on the reader?
I feel like yes it is only one sentence but it is a sentence that says a lot and as a reader it put a good lasting impression on me. Therefore the effect was good.
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