The “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is a story about the narrator‚ his wife and his wife’s friend Robert‚ who is a blind man that she used to work for as a reader about ten years ago. They were able to keep in touch by mailing tapes to each other. Robert’ wife just died so he was coming for dinner and was going to spend the night at their house after visiting some relatives. The narrator‚ who lack social skills‚ was not so thrilled about entertaining a blind man and was a little jealous about his wife’s
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In the two stories — “The Necklace” and “The Story of an Hour”‚ both female protagonists are trapped by strict order of society depriving their freedom and status. Social status and family background are important to women because that is the only way they can gain respect and get their desires. However‚ in “The Necklace”‚ women had neither rank nor class in the late 1800s in France. Their beauty and charm is their only way to be a part of the higher society. Madame Loisel in this story was born with
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The children’s stories The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs are similar in many ways. To begin‚ both stories are classified as fiction because it is make-believe. In real life‚ no animal can actually speak. Also‚ no bears or pigs live in houses with furniture. Next‚ they’re both children’s books. The stories are favorites of elementary students. Lastly‚ both have a bad guy in them. The Big Bad Wolf is the enemy of the three little pigs. Goldilocks was the “bad guy” in The Three Bears. Both
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Raymond Carvers Cathedral illustrates the point of view of a self-centered man‚ the narrator‚ who suffers from a mild lack of education and culture while being more than slightly close-minded and rude. These are observations that one can make by considering how he reacts to his wifes blind friend‚ Robert coming over at their house as well as by his perceptions of the blind man. The fact that the main character is also narrating helps as well when trying to capture his nature since we have access
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“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver‚ I cannot comprehend what is going on. The story starts off with a husband named Robert telling the reader about “this” (par.1.) blind man who has been long term friends with his wife and will be coming to visit due to the tragic death of the blind man’s wife. Through the way that this man speaks of the blind person gives the appearance that the husband is not very fond of this person or any blind person. Robert seems very careless and judgmental. As stories of Robert’s
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older sister Junie‚ 16‚ who had survived the bombing unscathed‚ was taken to the University Hospital morgue to help identify a body. "I looked at the face‚ and I couldn’t tell who it was‚" she says of the crumpled form she viewed. "Then I saw this little brown shoe - you know‚ like a loafer - and I recognized it right away." Addie Mae Collins was one of four girls killed in the blast. Denise McNair; Carole Robertson‚ 14; and Cynthia Wesley‚ 14‚ also died‚ and another 22 adults and children were injured
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The Battle of Little Bighorn took place in the year of 1876; soldiers and Indians were battling due to the Indians not wanting the white people in their lands. The two accounts of the Battle of Little Bighorn were quite different because each story had a version. Although‚ both accounts were about the same idea which was the war between the Indians’ tribes‚ which involved Sioux‚ Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes versus the Seventh Cavalry. The story told by George Herendon‚ who was a scout for the Seventh
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Raymond Institute’s field trip to Carnegie Hall was a day of firsts. Never before had Theo attempted to use hair gel (and he wasn’t keen on using it again‚ after having Rebecca Dorian compare him to a shiny Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz). Nor had he ever battled a giant maniac bull-man. But that was later in the day. On that perfectly normal morning‚ Theo didn’t exactly sense that things were going to change so enormously. It was a little annoying that the universe didn’t show him any sort
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In Raymond Carver’s story “Cathedral”‚ he tells a story about an old friend visiting. Robert‚ the blind man‚ and the husband are alike in a couple ways‚ including the fact that they both care about the wife‚ and they both like to drink. The husband and Robert also have many differences; the husband is more judgmental than Robert‚ who has more of an open mind. There is the obvious difference that the husband is not blind like Robert. Carver wrote this story from the husband’s point of view‚ so we
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An art deco lamp with a slag glass shade cast amber light over the bed. The body of the silver haired man shuddered as he struggled to draw each breath. For seventy-six years Raymond Edward Boland lived a full and lusty life. Now he was dying. Resisting the waiting arms of death‚ he retreated into the past. In 1845 nature cast a dark spell over Ireland‚ causing the number one food staple to fail. Leaves curled up‚ stalks turned black‚ potato tubers rotted in the ground‚ and a stench rose from the
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