mhaviland,
Your topic of Eliot's Silas Marner can be a great essay. Most great essays have very similar characteristics. They start with am attention-getting statement. Something that will garner someone's attention to put them in a great mood as they read your essay. Try to think of something that is either a quote, a statistic, a rhetorical question, or a broad statement about the overall ideas of the book conveyed through your life.
Next, comes background information. How do you go from your first statement to the next. What are the qualities of the book that relate to your first attention-getting statement.
Then, your thesis statement. How are some people lucky while others are not? Is it through their moral beliefs, their deeds, their actions? A thesis statement, an explicit one which actually lists your controlling ideas (what you plan to write about) generally comes last in an introduction.) Though after a while, and you become more proficient, you can place the thesis statement anywhere.
Depending on the class you are in, the attention-getting statement, the background, and the thesis can each be one sentence, resulting in a three-sentence introduction. In later advanced courses, they become more involved and complex as your writing ability improves.
If you follow those guidelines, your essay on Silas Marner can truly turn out to be a wonderful paper.
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