text I chose is “The Bath”. This text is a short story written by Raymond Carver‚ a re-known short stories writer from 1962-1986 in Americas’ history. Concerning the author message about “The Bath”‚ we are reading a story of a young boy called Scotty who was about to turn eight year on Monday that he was hit by a car while walking with his friend to school. The story is dominated by mute communication between personalities; bath was used as the means of relieve for affected parents‚ and desperation
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facilitate a fresh understanding of the world and people. This is evident in the Memoir The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara and short story Cathedral By Raymond Carver. Che discovers the harsh reality of poverty‚ class distinctions and the beauty of nature through his journey through Latin America. In contrast‚ the protagonist of Cathedral has a renewed spiritual perception of the world and people by meeting a blind man. Throughout The motorcycle diaries‚ Guevara discovers the harsh reality
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The Most Effective Literary Element in “Cathedral” and Reasons for its Effectiveness Raymond Carver uses the literary elements of characterization and point of view to make Cathedral an effective story. While Cathedral appears to just be a story about a visit between two old friends and the narrator‚ I see it as a journey between two men which shows the audience that it is possible to break personal barriers and stereotypes. Cathedral’s main characters are the narrator‚ his wife‚ and Robert the
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I am deeply ambivalent about Raymond Carver. My beef with this particular dead guy has less to do with his fine stories than with his 1980s-era apotheosis into an academic demigod‚ his canonization as St. Ray of the MFA programs‚ the way his works and style became paradigms to be slavishly imitated by a generation (maybe two generations now) of American writing students‚ a process of sowing that came to barren fruition in the bland‚ flat‚ snowy fields of zero-degree Minimalist prose. All this has
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One of the things that makes Shakespeare’s writing so famous is all of the literary devices he adds in. One of the many devices found is found Act 2 scene 2. At this point in the play‚ Macbeth has just killed King Duncan and is talking to his wife‚ Lady Macbeth about it. Macbeth is very paranoid and freaking out because he suddenly hears a strange knocking‚ but his hands are still covered in blood. This is where a hyperbole comes in and Macbeth says “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
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Pleasantly Obese Raymond Carver’s short story “Fat” brings the reader through a life changing moment for a waitress. The unnamed woman‚ who describes her encounter with an obese man to her friend Rita‚ is completely engaged in everything about the fat man while she waits him; his size‚ his appetite‚ and especially his hospitality towards her. Through the waitress’ thoughts‚ Carver repeatedly brings up the concept of obesity in his story. He allows her mind to tell the reader which parts are important
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Not be Covered With a Finger Inside Carver’ Life and Writing Style Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie‚ Oregon‚ on May 25‚ 1938‚ and grew up in Yakima‚ Washington. His father‚ a skilled sawmill worker from Arkansas‚ was a fisherman and a heavy drinker too. Carver´s mother worked as a waitress and a retail clerk. Raymond Carver was educated at local schools in Yakima. He had two children during his first marriage named Christine La Rae and Vance Lindsay .Carver started his writing development attending
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this‚ he has committed treason against his country. He hopes that his country‚ his other dearest love‚ will pardon him because he loves both his country and his love interest. | LITERARY DEVICES 1. PERSONIFICATION * Lines 4‚ 6-7: The love interest’s eyes constantly accuses and convicts the persona. This device highlights the extent to which the persona has hurt this person. * Lines 18-20: The persona hopes that his country‚ his other dearest love‚ will forgive him for the treasonous act
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Literary Devices – Poetry Allusion: An event or fact from an external context assumed to be known by the reader (e.g. historical‚ biblical‚ etc.). An allusion can increase one’s understanding of the poem in question by drawing parallels with other subjects. Anthropomorphism: The showing or treating of animals‚ gods and objects as if they are human in appearance‚ character or behaviour. Apostrophe: Something that addresses an object‚ abstract idea‚ or person who is dead as though it could
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the image of the product has more priority than the performance of the product. An article in‚ “The Onion‚” the author satirizes how products are marketed to consumers through means of a variety of literary strategies such as words and phrases‚ dialogue‚ and scientific vocabulary. First‚ the literary strategy of using words and phrases throughout the article to mock the long tradition of how marketing companies advertise their products. The product in this article is shoe inserts. For instance
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