Stories are composed of few essential elements for it to come to live. Writers focused on having a setting, a plot and of course, characters. If a story fails to have any of these elements it would have no sense whatsoever. Characters are one of the most important elements for the story to come to life. There are many type of characters in the literature world, they can be a human being, an animal or even an imaginary figure. Writer’s use characterization to make a character come to live, they might be descriptive: to have an idea of the physical or mental traits while reading the story or they might be developed characters, where the character is introduced deeply in the story, they can be fully develop from the beginning or evolve through
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Carver characters are working class people, he personally experienced the difficultness of making a living and it is reflected in many of his works. Also, he does not give too much details in his stories as if he wanted the reader to understand the purpose of the character based on his or her point of view. Through his characters he inclines toward showing the reader different ways of looking at the world and the million forms we can connect with people. Cathedral is the perfect example it is a story with few details, thus this is what I understood. The narrator is a man who is not happy at all about receiving Robert into his house, mainly because he is jealous of his wife past with him. Robert is a blind man who recently lost his wife, for this reason the narrator’s wife invites him over. The narrator’s wife and Roberts had been friends for a long time now and they never lost contact. Robert is a tranquil man who changes the narrator point of view about him, he surprised him because he wasn’t want the narrator expected of a blind man. They later where watching a documentary about middle ages and the narrators stars talking about cathedrals, Robert asks him to describe one, but he cant. Hence, Robert tells him to draw one while he follows the movement of the narrator’s hand. Then, Robert asks the narrator to close his eyes and when he finished the drawing he did not wanted to open his eyes, he then understood that drawing is really something changing the narrators
Carver characters are working class people, he personally experienced the difficultness of making a living and it is reflected in many of his works. Also, he does not give too much details in his stories as if he wanted the reader to understand the purpose of the character based on his or her point of view. Through his characters he inclines toward showing the reader different ways of looking at the world and the million forms we can connect with people. Cathedral is the perfect example it is a story with few details, thus this is what I understood. The narrator is a man who is not happy at all about receiving Robert into his house, mainly because he is jealous of his wife past with him. Robert is a blind man who recently lost his wife, for this reason the narrator’s wife invites him over. The narrator’s wife and Roberts had been friends for a long time now and they never lost contact. Robert is a tranquil man who changes the narrator point of view about him, he surprised him because he wasn’t want the narrator expected of a blind man. They later where watching a documentary about middle ages and the narrators stars talking about cathedrals, Robert asks him to describe one, but he cant. Hence, Robert tells him to draw one while he follows the movement of the narrator’s hand. Then, Robert asks the narrator to close his eyes and when he finished the drawing he did not wanted to open his eyes, he then understood that drawing is really something changing the narrators