Argumentative Essay

|Introductory |I am a movie fanatic. When friends want to know what picture won the Oscar in 1980 or who played the police |

|paragraph |chief in Jaws, they ask me. My friends, though, have stopped asking me if I want to go out to the movies. |

|(Thesis) |The problems in getting to the theater, the theater itself, and the behavior of some patrons are all reasons|

| |why I often wait for a movie to show up on TV. |

|First supporting |First of all, just getting to the theater presents difficulties. Leaving a home equipped with a TV and a |

|paragraph |video recorder isn't an attractive idea on a humid, cold, or rainy night. Even if the weather cooperates, |

| |there is still a thirty-minute drive to the theater down a congested highway, followed by the hassle of |

| |looking for a parking space. And then there are the lines. After hooking yourself to the end of a human |

| |chain, you worry about whether there will be enough tickets, whether you will get seats together, and |

| |whether many people will sneak into the line ahead of you. |

|Second supporting |Once you have made it to the box office and gotten your tickets, you are confronted with the problems of the|

|paragraph |theater itself. If you are in one of the run-down older theaters, you must adjust to the musty smell of |

| |seldom-cleaned carpets. Escaped springs lurk in the faded plush or cracked leather seats, and half the seats|

| |you sit in seem loose or tilted so that you sit at a strange angle. The newer twin and quad theaters offer |

| |their own problems. Sitting in an area only one-quarter the size of a regular theater, moviegoers often have|

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