A thesis statement is the argument your paper proves.
For your paper in this course, you need to analyze two texts together. You are using existing research about a theme or themes in each text as evidence to back up your claims and show that you are building off of an existing conversation to say something new.
You might think of the structure for a thesis statement in a few ways, but it should be clear that you need to have done some research in order to write a thesis statement.
"Text 1 and Text 2 both deal with the Theme of X. However, the characters approach Theme X differently in Way 1 and Way 2."
"It may appear that Theme X is repeated in Text 1 and in Text 2, but a comparison of the two texts illustrates that the authors had contrasting views of the effects of Theme X, namely through Effect A and Effect B."
"Comparing Evidence A in Text 1 and Evidence B in Text 2 makes it clear that the authors thought about Theme X very differently, likely owing to differences in Variable Y."
These structures are not prescriptive (don't try and cram your argument into this structure if it doesn't flow) - they are meant to illustrate that you need to be explicit in how you describe your argument in your thesis.
