Write an essay rough draft (600 words) in which you locate one significant, specific pattern (an image, word, motif) that occurs at least three times in one text, provide specific quotations that prove the existence of the pattern, and then use interpretive strategies to explain how the pattern functions on a plot- level and also it's larger cultural signifigance.
Some questions to keep in mind: when does the author incorporate the pattern? when does the pattern shift in meaning? Does the pattern have particular significance to a specific character? How does the word or image affect the reader? Is this pattern obvious? Is the pattern deployed through imagery, symbolism, flashback,characterization, figures of speech, dialogue, setting, etc.?