Look at the following model paragraph to give yourself a clearer picture of what is expected in analytical writing. Be sure to notice how each inference (each claim) is backed up by specific evidence from Rockwell's painting.

In his painting, “Breaking Home Ties,” Norman Rockwell presents a poignant moment between a father and a son. He reveals the eager excitement of the boy heading off to college through his uplifted, expectant face and the looming sadness of the father as he hunches over holding the boy’s hat over his own. The boy literally looks to the horizon ahead and the whole world waiting for him at a train stop in a college town, while the father looks down and in the opposite direction seeming to dwell on the past or to imagine a future without his son by his side. Rockwell reveals the relationship between the two through . . .