Thesis Statements:

Thesis statements are, by far, one of the hardest sentences to write for an essay. In one sentence, one has to encompass every subject that they will touch upon in their paper. It's hard, but not impossible.

The main points of a thesis statement can be summed up in two points:
1. The topic of your essay- what the essay is discussing.
2. What the main points of the essay are- what each paragraph will be talking about.

An example of this from a paper I wrote on "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams:
    In the play "The Glass Menagerie," each character is slightly mad in their own individual way, and though some characters are able to work past their madness, some are not.

In this thesis, the subjects are the characters of "The Glass Menagerie" and the point of the essay is how each character is crazy and which characters are able to move past their insanity. Each character should have their own paragraph detailing how they are insane and then two paragraphs on which characters are and are not able to move one from their madness.

I got an "A" on this paper, and this was back in junior year of High School.

Ensuring that you are discussing that which is in your thesis statement, you are able to get a better grade.