Thanks to my previous experiences, I knew that the job of the thesis statement is to guide and instruct the reader on what your paper is trying to say. Even though I knew this, I realized that the standard three-point thesis was definitely not going to work. I had written many papers before the course, so I was surprised when I realized that it had taken me almost twenty minutes to even formulate an idea for the thesis. This inconvenience genuinely frustrated me, so I decided it would probably be best to seek advice from Mrs. Sutton, my teacher. After talking to her and banging my head against a wall, the thesis I came away with was: "The Killer Queen ad uses Katy Perry's real appearance and self-confidence to attract potential buyers by making them feel that if they wore the fragrance, they would feel powerful and have control over their “throne,” or life” (Cox 1). This thesis helped explain and provide the ideas I felt were expressed within the