Your task is to read the last two passages (from Catch-22 and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe) and then write a 3-page analysis of one of those excerpts.

* An analysis of this type focuses on the literary characteristics of the text you have read. So to formulate your essay, utilize the “Useful Terms” page attached. Some of these terms (e.g., “Setting” are quite general, so they can provide topics for body paragraphs in your essays. Other terms (e.g., “Image”) are specific, so they can be the details in those paragraphs. You can also address other concepts, such as Character, which do not appear in the list.

* Please do not try to write about the whole novel. There is not time for that, and you will only confuse yourself (and me). And please– Do not try to steal information from the Internet about the whole work.

* You will thus produce one short essay, approximately 3 pages long.