Nabokov's essay "Good Readers and Good Writers" was a different sort of essay, the thesis was not clearly stated anywhere so it was implicit throughout the entire essay. Explicit essays have a thesis clearly stated somewhere, usually at the beginning of the essay. I simply could not find the thesis anywhere. This essay was actually a very good one, I really enjoyed it actually alot. Nabokov makes you think about the different rhetorical questions he asks. The questions he states throughout the essay are his way of having a thesis instead of actually stating a clear thesis . He wants people to think about the questions that he asks throughout the essay, such as: "Can we expect to glean information about places and times from a novel?" (Nabokov Page1) He is asking if we can actually expect to lean and rely on historical times and places that are described in novels. He wants the reader to form his or her own opinion even though he wants the answer to be a "No" . The essay "Good Readers and Good Writers" is a great essay even though it lacks a clear explicit thesis. Nabokov does a great job with the implicit essay way of writing.
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