Realism and Minimalism comparing “Cathedral” and Summer Interior Both Raymond Carver and Edward Hopper show qualities of realism and minimalism in the short story “Cathedral” by Carver and in the painting Summer Interior‚ 1909 by Hopper. The moods and characters relate to both the short story and the painting. Dirty-realism was shown in the short story by Carver he shows disappointment and truths that the character’s face. Realism is different in art Hopper showed accurate‚ detailed‚ unembellished
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1/23/14 Comparative Literary Analysis Performance Task Allegory of the Cathedral As the philospoher Seneca once said‚ “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” Raymond Carver’s Cathedral is a story about a man who started out as a closed-minded man but‚ throughout the story his character changes as he begins to bond with his wife’s friend‚ Robert‚ a man who is blind. Plato’s Allegory of the cave is a story about a prisoner who is freed from being locked in chains living all of
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Blindness can manifest itself in many ways. Arguably the most detrimental form of this condition may be the figurative blindness of ones own situations and ignorance towards the feelings of others. In Raymond Carver ’s short story "Cathedral‚" the narrator ’s emotional and psychological blindness is immediately apparent. The many issues faced by the narrator as well as the turn-around experienced at the culmination of the tale are the main ideas for the theme of this story; and these ideas aid the
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The reader learns about Robert in Cathedral mainly through the narrator‚ the husband‚ and the actions of Robert. The narrator directly states that Robert is blind and lives in Seattle. The husband learned this from his wife who used to be his care-taker and continues to stay in touch‚ so in a roundabout way we know this information only due to his wife even though the husband is the one to tell us. The narrator’s wife is the first one to tell the reader why Robert is coming to visit‚ his wife just
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NI Topic: Breaching The Security of An Internet Patient Portal Nur-531 May 18‚ 2013 Introduction Kaiser Permanente is a health system which serves over eight million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. In the 1990’s the KP Northern California region created an Internet Patient Portal known as “Kaiser Permanente Online” (KP Online)(Wager‚ 2009). KP Online provides members access to request appointments and prescription
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Simon Glass liked all around campus. Rob (control freak)‚ Young‚ (intellectual)‚ Coop (athletic jock)‚ and Bob (smack talker) do all sorts of things to help Glass get nominated and ultimately win the title of senior class favorite. These kids go through different struggles to get Simon where he is at right now. Most of the boys are malignant; they cause harm and distress to the people around them‚ and even though the boys did not expect for things to end the way they did‚ Simon dies. In the novel
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The narrator of the story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver has never met someone who was blind until Robert came to visit. Robert has been a friend of the narrator ’s wife for the past ten years and is spending the night because he has not seen her for such a long time‚ but this bothers the narrator. He does not regard a blind man as a normal person with whom he can relate with‚ and is extremely uncomfortable with the idea of having to socialize with one for an entire evening. The narrator is stereotypical
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“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is set in 1983 in the narrator’s house somewhere In New York. The story starts with the narrator telling us about his wife’s old friend that was blind. The narrator tells us about how the blind man’s wife had died. The blind man then contacted the narrator’s wife. Arrangements were made and then the blind man was coming to spend the night at the narrators house. He would come to New York from his in laws in Connecticut by a 5-hour train ride. The blind and the wife always
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Reflection on Cathedral In a short story named Cathedral by Raymond Carver‚ he discusses about an unnamed man who is doubtful to his wife’s blind friend named Robert‚ he used to be the boss of her. One day he came to stay at their house because he was invited by the wife‚ and the wife invited him because he lost his wife and she wanted him to spend some time with them. The husband was feeling so uncomfortable because of the visit of Robert. The husband met the blind man‚ and he was acting in an
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