Is Hook Guilty Or Innocent?

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Outline of argumentative essay
Introduction
Hook guilty or innocent?
Question Do you think that brother is guilty or innocent.
Brief explanation well doodle died and we are trying to find out if doodle is guilty or not.
Background Well there are events happening in the book to see if he is guilty because it talks about him making plans to kill doodle and the doctor saying if doodle gets excited or two wet he can die.
Claim Is brother guilty for doodles death.
End guilty

body paragraph
Doodles death Guilty or innocent
The whole reason brother is guilty is because he died
Evidence one: I believe that brother is guilty for doodles death because
The doctor said if doodle gets too wet or excited he could die.
Well the quote I got from the book

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