Cathedral: Why the Narrator Keeps His Eyes Closed In the End of the Story Name Institution Date Cathedral: Why the Narrator Keeps His Eyes Closed In the End of the Story In the story “Cathedral‚” the author shares his experience with a blind man‚ a friend of his wife‚ who comes to visit their home. The author is troubled by the blind man’s visit for unclear reasons‚ but he attributes it to Robert’s (the blind man) disability. The narrator dislikes the blind and often refers to Robert as “the
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Also the day the lottery takes place described as “a day in mid summer” indicates the period of unconstrained growth and recklessness. Another literary device in the story‚ is the genre by showing horror and realism in placing the story in a generic small town and reviling the fate of the lottery winner at the end. A third literary device in the story‚ is the tone by showing detachment and calms of the tone through out the story from the beginning describing the sunny day‚ to witnessing
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Life of Pi - Option 2 In The Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ Pi Patel and Richard Parker travel in a liferaft for many days while stranded in the Pacific Ocean. However‚ the setting helps aid the story in multiple ways. The setting guides the character’s feelings and actions to grow dynamically and adds foreshadow to the storyline. In the beginning of the plot when the weather started to become rough‚ Pi admitted that he was “very afraid” (Martel 101) and he was so frightened to where “his mind could
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Every author and play writer has some kind of reason for writing their piece. As readers and viewers‚ we use our knowledge to decipher the underlying message that comes across throughout works of art. Our Town by Thornton Wilder has many people with several diverse opinions sharing their ideas about the play. Thornton Wilder’s purpose for writing Our Town was to show the amount of control human beings have over their life‚ but fail to recognize until death. You can see this through daily events in
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Following the theme of identity not through language but through the mark a person can leave on the world the poem “Dusting” was written. In its simplest form a signature is the easiest way for someone to expresses who they are and to leave their mark. In the poem this is the focus of the little girl who “each morning wrote [her] name on the dusty cabinet” and every other available surface in her house as her her mother to erased them all everyday (line 1-2‚DUSTING). In order to emphasises every
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PAPA’S WALTZ I read the poem about ‘’Papa’s Waltz’’ in my reading. I found on line one and two when father came home from work drunk off of whiskey. I think that could cause father’s to be violence to his son. Because when you drink alcohol it effects your body such as emotions‚ mad‚ and more other thing. I got a source that tell you about the effect of alcohol www.learn-about-alcoholism.com/effect-of-alcoholism.htmi. This website have great facts about effect of alcohol. The father would been fine
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elicit emotions (Harpman‚ 261). Mirroring the acceptance of the haunting of Beloved’s baby ghost‚ these portray inverse forms of facing traumatic memories. Furthermore‚ Morrison reflects the role of storyteller through utilizing familiar elements to convey a message‚ in reimagining Beloved through the lens of Denver’s birth‚ a story often told by Sethe. The emergence of a physically present ghost creates an atmosphere that forces memories to resurface for Sethe‚ and “the gothic not only grows real
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allusion to Tiffany and Co‚ which is a high end and expensive brand. This line implies that the woman the singer is speaking of is easily controlled and gets lost in expenses and power. The lyric “We are all just prisoners here‚ of our own device” is a paradox because it contradicts itself. A prisoner is someone who is forced into a cell by the law‚ but here the singer is speaking of how their materialistic beliefs keep them
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The characters in the “Cathedral” had a lot of exploring the unknown. Not only was Robert exploring the unknown of what is a cathedral‚ but also so was the narrator with how was going to explain what a cathedral was. What is more‚ he also had to interact with a man that his original preconception was to hate. After the whole first half of the story of the narrator explaining why he did not want the blind man coming to his house. He wife left him there alone with him so he decided to smoke a joint
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Through the comparison and other literacy techniques‚ we are able to better able comprehend the differences between the adults and the children‚ moral and ethical actions and thoughts‚ in I’m not scared by Niccolo Ammanitit. The functions of the literary devices are to conveys the different moral and ethically decision made by both the children and the adults in I’m not scared. Throughout the book the adults are seen as corrupt and unethical‚ this is showed when Ammanitit uses a similarly to compare
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