1A Sample Thesis Fill-Ins and Lexicon for “Room No.12”

Provide mapping components for the following thesis statements:

Like “The Culture of Enjoyment” and the “hashish dream” described in “The New Mecca,” the strange madam in “Room No. 12” represents the qualities of the Western consumer industry, which destroys smaller nations through ____________________, _____________________, ______________________, and ______________________.

“The New Mecca” portrays Dubai as a suffocating Bitch Goddess, which traps and extinguishes the soul through _______________, _________________, __________________, and ____________________.

 

Lexicon for Room No. 12 on page 220

 

1. femme fatale
2. steely  certitude see paragraph 1
3. rapacity
4. insatiability
5. enigmatic personage, someone who defies explanation, a mystery
6. decadence,  moral disintegration that accompanies self-indulgence
7. languorous
8. indolent
9. torpid
10. slothful
11. lethargic
12. soporific