Raymond and Trudy was an amazing book that I would read again but I would like to address one thing. The cover. No the cover is not a representation of what is inside of the book but let’s be honest‚ a lot of people do judge a book by its cover. The cover‚ to be frank‚ is TERRIBLE. Whoever made the cover for your book is terrible at their job. The cover is blurry and plain. Even if you just kept the design and got rid of the blur it would be MUCH MUCH better. The cover is a turnoff. If someone told
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incident that took place back in 1963 at a predominantly black church in Birmingham Alabama inspired several African American poets to interpret their own views and sides of the on the event that took place. Well-known poets such as Langston Hughes and Raymond L. Patterson use different elements of poetry to reveal their own side of the horrific event that took place. Hughes uses imagery in his poem and describes a highly graphic crime on the incident that took place in Birmingham. Patterson’s diction uses
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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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September 4th 2012 RH 200 / Merar REACTION PAPER (JOURNAL) by Raymond Alvarez‚ Jr. I though the people profiled in Without Pity: A Film About Abilities represented a fair cross-section of disabled individuals struggling against the world’s obstacles‚ to gain control of how they will eventually live. One story that really hit home with me was Charlie. Being born with no legs and arms‚ Charlie showed great adaptation and intelligence and had such a go-getter attitude. He attends school with
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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’s wife wrote a poem about how the blind man touched her face‚ the narrator did not like that at all. “the blind man asked if he could touch her face...She told me he touched his fingers to every part of her face‚ her nose--even her neck!” (Carver ) Before he met the blind man‚ he started being judgmental before he has to know him. I did not like how the narrator acted in the beginning of the story at all. After all the criticism the narrator did towards the blind man‚ He and Robert became
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“That anyone could father a child‚ but a real man chooses to be a dad‚” - J. Sterling. Hugh Garner’s short story‚ ‘The Father’‚ can closely relate to this quote with the protagonist John Purcell who chooses to dismay his fatherly duties of relating to and taking care of his only child‚ Johnny‚ and instead pursues in his drinking habit which has destroyed his home and social life. A father figure is an important aspect of every child’s life‚ and without one people can often be left emotionally unstable
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Washington Carver (1860-1943) Agricultural Scientist Dr. George Washington Carver was born in 1860 in Diamond‚ Missouri. When he was 30 he was accepted to Simpson College in Indianola‚ Iowa. Carver was later transferred to Iowa Agricultural College which is now Iowa State University. There he got a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in bacterial botany and agriculture. Dr. Carver discovered a large amount of products. He discovered three hundred uses for a peanut. Carver died
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The Raymond Carver Review 1 Book Review The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse: Chekhov to Carver. Kerry McSweeney. University of South Carolina Press‚ 2007. Hardback $29.95. McGill University professor Kerry McSweeney’s The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse should be well received by Carver scholars. While the book includes chapters on the merits of realist fiction writers Anton Chekhov‚ James Joyce‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ and Flannery O’Connor‚ it reads‚ in some ways‚ as a
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