PL HELP, AND READ THE QUESTION THROUGHLY Collecting and presenting textual evidence in support of an argument is an important skill. Let’s say you’ve been tasked with writing a literary analysis essay on the function of external and internal conflict in The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. In about 150 words, formulate an argument and collect at least three specific examples from the text and explain why each is relevant to the paper’s thematic topic of external and internal conflict. Your argument doesn’t have to be too precise or perfect. Just come up with enough of an idea so you have something to “hang” your evidence on.

Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. then, in 1958, when he was nine, his mother got a job as a dental assistant – and a raise. at about the same time, wash got a job, too. six days a week for eight years, he woke up by four o'clock in the morning to deliver milk. by the time he got to school each day, he'd already put in almost half a day's work. how does this excerpt readers make a personal connection to the story? by connecting readers to his mother’s medical training by connecting readers to the milk-delivery business by connecting readers to wash’s academic success by connecting readers to wash’s daily work routine