The thesis statement for the essay, "Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov, is "My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures" (Nabokov, page 1, paragraph 2). This thesis statement is found at the very beginning of the essay after where it states what the essay is and when it was originally delivered. The thesis is exactly the first real sentence on the page leading to the first paragraph of the essay. The thesis statement for this particular essay, "Good Readers and Good Writers", is explicit. I think it is explicit because it is stated at the beginning of the essay plainly. If it was implicit it would not have been as obvious; it would have been more hidden and the author would have expected you to to conclude the thesis yourself from reading the entire essay. I concluded this to be the thesis statement because the entire essay revolves around this sentence and Nabokov talks about the many literary structures throughout the essay. Some of these mysteries Nabokov addresses includes: "Can we expect to glean information about places and times from a novel?", "So what is the authentic instrument to be used by the reader?", and the "three points of view from which a writer can be considered" (Nabokov, page 4, paragraph 1). These examples of the revealed mysteries mentioned in this essay, as well as the others, can all be traced back to the first sentence, thus making it the thesis.
Nabokov, Vladimir Bladimirovich, and Fredson Bowers. Lectures on Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Print.
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