Identification of a pattern (thematic, linguistic, and/or imagistic) of interest to you, using a name you give it, i n Mphahlele’s Down Second Avenue, with three passages in the text specified to illustrate the pattern;
The above for Ngugi’s In the House of the Interpreter: Identification of a pattern (thematic, linguistic, and/or i magistic) of interest to you, using a name you give it, in with three passages in the text specified to illustrate the pattern;
An essay (c. 6-7 double-spaced pages) that makes an argument about how a pattern (thematic, linguistic, an d/or imagistic) in Down Second Avenue or In the House of the Interpreter creates meaning in the autobiography and that includes mention of the second autobiography – the one you are not focusing on centrally – in the cours e of developing its argument. Please close your essay with a reflection on this question: what does your argumen t help us see about this autobiography’s significance within the literary tradition of life writing? More detailed instructions and tips: For your identification of patterns For each autobiography, first Mphahlele’s and then Ngugi’s, please: 1) Name the pattern you identify, with a name that you create; 2) List three passages from different parts of the text that you find valuable in tracing this pattern: give page nu mber, chapter number, and the first few opening words for each passage; 3) Note in 2-3 sentences how/ why this passage matters as part of your pattern.
