Like your last essay, this one will be a close reading of a text, this time a passage from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold.  Length will be 3-4 pages again.

As with all analytic essays, this one must focus on a particular theme, not a general topic (like "love" or "motherhood" or "desire" or self-awareness").  As a reiteration, a theme is a generalization which takes the form of a sentence (a subject and predicate).

In order to craft your argument, however, you're going to need to develop your discussion of the theme by examining two (or three) devices which Garcia Marquez uses.  In addition, you might look not at particular literary devices, but you instead examine how he develops patterns which might relate to a given theme.  In any case, your discussion must be centered on tying devices/patterns to theme, just as it was when you did a close reading of a poem for Essay One.

Here some possible devices or patterns that you might examine (but don't let these suggestions limit you):

Once you've developed a tentative thesis, e-mail it to me, so I can give you some feedback.