The thesis statement of your persuasive essay is
A. the position of your opponent on your
argument.
B. your clear position on your argument.
C. your question to your readers about what they
think the best position is on your argument.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.

i think the anti-race spokesman is working to achieve equality between whites and blacks and to encourage blacks to shakespeare's theory

i think   they were arguing over whether they would get info from doing it or nit was invading privacy