Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Hunter Gracchus

Dont use quotes in the thesis. pls use the quotes in the body paragraph.
Here are the instructions:

Essay 2 must:
1) come up with an interpretive thesis (subject to approval)
2) use one or more stories for support and comment on the citations you use
3) organize the essay as an interpretive argument.
4)Show why the ideas you argue are important to understanding the stories
Topics: Invent a thesis from the themes below:
1. Time/Timelessness
2. Waiting
3. Truth
4. Death
5.Distance

How to come up with a thesis:
1 Read the story again and take notes
2. What is the story saying as it pertains to one of the themes above?
How does the story tell us about that theme? What does it say?