1) Choose any prose work from the course. Find something that repeats and discuss
its importance for the work as a whole. By “something” I mean any image, metaphor,
line or phrase, character trait, or event. You will recall our discussion in the poetry
section of how something repeated will seem magnified in importance, i.e. become
symbolic. A tree that just seems part of the setting when it first appears in a story
will seem much more symbolic when it appears again and again. You want to think
about how this meaningful recurrence influences an interpretation of the story as a
whole.
The work for the essay is sonnys blues.
