Our Thesis Statement (once and for all)

Our thesis statement is as follows:
“What was I scared of?” effectively illustrates scapegoating within society now and throughout history. As the protagonist cannot explain the pale-green pants, he projects a negative perspective on the garment; avoiding/shunning the individual (pants) completely benign to the projection. Like similar assumptions toward those suffering from stigmatized disease (both mental and physical), the pants are unfairly regarded as an object of terror simply because the protagonist does not fully understand.