Neighbors "Neighbors is a short story written by Raymond Carver in 1988. It is from the collection of short stories "Short cuts". The short story is in brief about the married couple Bill and Arlene Miller‚ who lives opposite the married couple Harriet and Jim stone. Bill and Arlene constantly see themselves in the light of the Stones’ happy life. Bill is a bookkeeper and Arlene is a secretary‚ while Jim is a salesman for a machine-parts firm. In the story the Stones are going on a business trip
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The Impact of Social Networking in Life The article “I’m So Totally‚ Digitally‚ Close To You (Brave New World of Digital Intimacy)” (2002) is written by Clive Thompson‚ who is also a blogger and columnist. The author aims to explain the users’ attraction of Facebook‚ Twitter and other forms of “incessant online contact” through his text. Since social networking has become a nearly ubiquitous aspect of human contemporary life‚ Thomson has effectively illustrated the invasion of the social media into
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“They’re Not Your Husband” is a short story by Raymond Carver‚ where he writes about the man named Earl Ober‚ who is an unemployed salesman‚ with his wife (Doreen) working as a waitress‚ at a 24-hour coffee shop. After a night of drinking as he usually does he goes to see the place where his wife works. Here he is treated like a nuisance by his wife. Two men start talking about his wife’s weight and this bothers Earl greatly. He decides to let Doreen know that she (he) has a problem with her weight
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but also through the personal qualities he reveals. He’s crude and he’s mean‚ but he’s also glib. There’s a wicked humor in the way he talks. While he certainly is detached from himself at the beginning‚ he is unusually talkative and clever for a Carver narrator. It’s a voice worth reading aloud‚ especially when one notices that the glibness is noticeably absent from the final pages. This absence delivers as powerfully as anything else how shaken and affected the narrator is by this experience.
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Don’t Fit In‚ Stand Out Have you ever tried to be so perfect at something and it ended up going all wrong? I have. In the essay “So What’s So Bad About Being So-So?” by Lisa Wilson Strick (205-207) she makes the point that being perfect doesn’t always turn out the way you hope. I completely concur with her. Perfection can often be a wonderful thing‚ but for me‚ perfection caused me to have a very low confidence and so it became a vice in my life. Rather then being myself‚ I was too concerned
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How do you feel if you work overtime every day? You feel under stress‚ want to go home immediately‚ or exhausted? Nevertheless‚ all of these answers are different for Americans. Many of them prefer to stay at the workplace rather than going home for various reasons: some feel more comfortable at the workplace than at home‚ others like to earn more money‚ but this is causing pain for them and their family. Firstly‚ many Americans feel more comfortable in the workplace. Nowadays‚ most of the employers
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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 water (black
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throughout it all‚ there is always a blessing waiting to be discovered that will help you overcome your burden. Life throws all kind of obstacles your way‚ whether you’re prepared for it or not. In Raymond Carver’s short story “A Small Good Thing” it actually allows the reader to experience that. Carver skillfully pours out the emotions of Mr. and Mrs. Weiss‚ how happy one can be until something tragic happens‚ which test their faith‚ but some how gives them hope to push on. In the beginning of
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Lisa Wilson Strick’s article “What’s So Bad about Being So-So?” states that‚ in today’s society‚ people are too serious to the point that no one does things just for fun‚ but only for competition. There are children who are acting like grown adults instead of children because they are so stressed out about being the best in everything that they do. Friendships are being ruined because no one is safe from today’s competitive edge. Strick’s article tries to instill the thought that we need to go back
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So Much to Tell You by John Marsden‚ explores the struggle that the protagonist‚ Marina‚ endures along her journey to mental wholeness. Marina’s soul has been shattered due to a traumatic event‚ and being witness to a large amount of violence and hatred in her family. So Much To Tell You is rich in techniques that are used effectively to convey the idea of Marina’s struggle‚ and journey towards mental wholeness. Marina’s difficulty in achieving psychological completion is shown through the major
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