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    Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver starts out with symbolism. “Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water.. Cars slushed by on the street outsider‚ where it was getting dark. But it was getting dark on the inside too.” With these few opening sentences‚ you can immediately tell that something “dark” is going to take place in the story. The picture went from snow‚ which in my personal opinion represents happiness‚ beauty‚ light‚ and purity (white is pure)‚ to dirty

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    The short story “A Small‚ Good Thing” by Raymond Carver is about a life taken from a young child days prior to his birthday. Vivid images are forced through your mind and behind it all a lesson is to be learned of how small things are good things in due time. Through this narrative‚ the reader becomes acquainted with the agonizing pain a mother and father suffer from their tragic loss with their child. In Carver’s story‚ “A Small‚ Good Thing‚” we are brought glimpses of the anxiety and are taught

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    characters and said story which is often used to symbolize real world applications. The author Raymond Carver is very proficient in illustrating a world in a short story while infusing real world applications and issues into a story while not directly addressing said theme. In “CathedralRaymond Carver uses the narrator‚ the husband‚ to illustrate the aversion many people have toward the disabled community. Carver uses the narrator to exhibit common behaviors people in the real world have toward the disabled

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    Summary of Cathedral On the surface Raymond Carver’s‚ Cathedral is nothing more than a story of acceptance. The story takes place in New York around the 1980’s. The principle characters include: The Narrator who is a jealous husband‚ Robert a blind man who is kindhearted and the Narrator’s wife who is a lonely woman looking for attention. The story begins when an old friend of the Narrator’s wife‚ Robert‚ was coming to visit. The Narrator’s wife used to work for Robert when she lived in Seattle

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    narrator is escapist. The narrator drinks too much‚ jealous of his wife‚ unable to adequately communicate with his wife‚ and unconnected to other human beings. In addition not only unconnected to others‚ but he also seems to resent his wife’s connections to other people as well. When “I” spoke of the impending visit by my wife’s friend: the blind man ‚ he states that‚ “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me” (Carver 32). “A blind man in my house was

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    Question: Essay discussing the role played by the setting in "Popular Mechanics." Analyze the central characters relationship to their surroundings. Does the setting limit the characters options or influence the development of the plot? Does the setting play any significant role in enhancing the theme of the story? (873 Words) "Popular Mechanics" was written in order to make the audience imagine their own details. The descriptions in this story are very basic and plain‚ the man and woman in the

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    The book “Cathedral” is about two men‚ one who can see and one who cannot. The two men did not communicate at first but in a way built a great bond towards the end. As they were watching television‚ cathedral came on the screen and the narrator did not know how to explain it to the blind man so they decided to draw it together. The blind man put his hand over the narrator’s and drew. As the narrator eyes were closed‚ he began to see a big change. He did not want to open his eyes after what he had

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    Raymond Carver Michael Tache English 210-12 April 28‚ 2011 Raymond Clevie Carver‚ Jr. was born on May 25‚ 1938 and died on August 2‚ 1988. Carver was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s. Carver was born in Clatskanie‚ Oregon‚ a mill town on the Columbia River‚ and grew up in Yakima‚ Washington. His father‚ a sawmill worker from Arkansas‚ was

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    Analysis of Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” In the short story “CathedralRaymond Carver chooses to use the narrative voice to tell of a simple event that occurs all the time in normal daily life‚ which is the visit of a family member’s old friend. By using colloquial language and ordinary daily scenes‚ Carver easily gets our attention and enables us to engage with the story and even to create the images that match with the story. By telling the story from the narrator’s point of view‚ Carver attempts

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    In Raymond Carver’s "Cathedral"‚ the narrator has composed an opinion solely on rumors and speculation. Before forming an opinion on something or someone people need to seek further information and consider other perspectives in order to construct a final decision. An opinion should not be based on generalized information because preconceived notions can be dangerous and have many negative consequences. Throughout life‚ people receive many stories‚ rumors‚ etc that can only show the positives to

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