Identify what you think the thesis statement is. This could be an actual sentence direct from the article, or what you think the implied claim of the piece is. Explain what you think the claim is, and what evidence the writer is bringing in to support his or her claim.

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.