Support Tips

One of the basic things you need to do to gather support is to read the sources where you are going to use.

Then using the reading group's techniques of reread and analyze, you can find the basic flow of the story and the personalities of the characters.

 Then using your understanding of the books, you need to make the characters stay in characters and imitate the authors' flow of the story.

Whenever, you are in doubt of something about the story or the characters, go find quotes in the books relating to what you are writing.

How to find quotes: Find lines that are important in proving causes in your story.  Used page number and highlight any parts you think is important.

How to analyze: Ask yourself :What methods are used in the introduction? List key observations and find supports in the paper that accompany the observations. And how is the overall conclusions of the paper?

Examples of good support: (Short versions)

Statement:  Rosaleen is like a mother to Lily.

Quote:  "She stared at the bee and shook her head.  "If you get stung, don't come whining to me," she said, "'cause I ain't gonna care."

     That was a lie.

I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond reason."  (p. 11)

Explanation:  This statement shows that Lily knows things about Rosaleen that wasn't common knowledge to others.

Statement:  The Wailing wall helps lighten a person's load.

Quote:  "I tore a piece of paper from a tablet and wrote my mother's name on it.  Deborah Owens.

When I looked outside, I knew I would have to make my way by starlight.  I crept across the grass, back to the edge of the woods  to May's wall.  Hiccuping all the way.  Placing my hands on the stones, all I wanted was not to ache so much... I pressed the paper with her name into a cranny that seemed right for her, giving her to the wailing wall.  Somewhere along the way my hiccups disappeared."  (p. 100-101)

Explanation:  Throughout the story it seems that only May needs to use the wall to let go of her sorrows. However this quote shows that Lily needed help letting things out and the wall acted like a person everyone can trust to listen to their sorrows.