How do I write a good hook, introduction & thesis statement for the prompt: How does Scrooge's character transform over the course of the play?

A hook is an
opening statement that catches an
audience's interest and keeps them reading. An introduction
is, in quick
strokes, the barebones background readers need to give them a context for
your
paper, and the thesis is the argument you will be making in the rest of
the paper.

Starting backward, there is no question that
Scrooge undergoes a profound
transformation during the course of the story.
Therefore, stating that he transforms would not
be a strong thesis. A more
interesting and arguable question is why he becomes good. What
transforms
him? One could argue that Scrooge changes because he is exposed to both
forgotten
memories of his past and to new experiences he has never thought
about before, such as how the
Cratchits live or how his own death will be
treated. You could state something along the lines
that "Scrooge is
transformed through memory and the expanding of his imagination, both of

which help him to get out of himself and empathize with others."

As
for
an introduction, you would want to remind your audience briefly that
Scrooge begins as a
hard-hearted, selfish, and irritable man who has a life
changing encounter with three holiday
ghosts on Christmas Eve.

A hook is a sentence or two that pull the readers
into your paper.
If you instructor allows it, you could begin with a question, such as
"What
would Christmas be like is everybody were as hardhearted as Scrooge?" or with

description that sets the scene. Another tried and true hook is an interesting fact--you
could
find a quick fact about the popularity of or, to
help set context, about
how many poor there were in London in Dickens' day
who needed the generosity of wealthier people
like Scrooge.

Normally, as your own question suggests, you would begin with
your
hook, follow with your introduction, and end your opening paragraph on your

thesis.