"A Brother's Murder": ORGANIZATION Paper #2, if you break it down, is simple. It consists of 2 parts. First, summarize the essay. What’s it about? Who’s in it? Stuff like that. Second, analyze the...

"A Brother's Murder": ORGANIZATION

Paper #2, if you break it down, is simple. It consists of 2 parts. First, summarize the essay. What’s it about? Who’s in it? Stuff like that. Second, analyze the writer’s methods.


Let’s start with the ORGANIZATION in this piece. The writer begins by reflecting on the moment he received the phone call with the news of his brother’s death.


He then backtracks to the past: where he and his brother grew up, the type of lifestyles they individually had, how his brother took a path that led to death.


He then comes full circle and returns to the opening of the essay, receiving the phone call.

The essay ends with a dream, a very strong image. The dream is definitely worth analyzing!