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Sabrina Ginsburg Period 9 In March of 2005, Natural History authors Laura Session and Steven Johnson wrote a descriptive literary article about the Moegistorhynchus longirostris also known as the mega-nosed fly. In this article, this particular sub-type of southern Africa fly was compared to the universally known fabled boy Pinocchio. The comparison was because both Pinocchio and this particular species of fly both have very long noses. While the nose of this fly was overly extended and may…

A maturing, forlorn lady living in Paris and keeping up herself by showing English is the subject of this character picture by Katherine Mansfield. Miss Brill's life is one of ratty culture and falsification; this impression initiates in the opening passage as she affectionately takes an antiquated fox hide out of its crate for her standard Sunday excursion to the greenhouses. Anticipating the new Season, she is, in any case, diverted by an unconventionally unpropitious inclination that is by…

Cathedral “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, was focused on the issue of love and its absences and the bearing of love’s absences on marriage and individual identity. His story was involved in very little “action” with in the plot. Instead, the focus was much more on the dialogue and investigation of the theme. The surface of his story looks calm and banal, but if you go deep into it you can see full of emotional tension, hidden memories, wounds, longing, hate, anxiety and melancholy. It is all…

The story “ Miss Brill By Katherine Mansfield ” is based off of the rather lonely life of an elderly English woman in Paris whom makes a living as an English tutor for young children and also reads to invalids. Miss Brills life is quite dull and dreary, as only a limited amount of things bring joy to her. The main ones are displayed throughout the story as her fur coat, and her ritual every Sunday in the Jardins Publique where she listens and watches the people around her to try and relieve her…

Literary Terms are structures writers use in their works to convey their message in a way the readers can understand. Conflict is a literary term that occurs in all stories after the problem. Conflict is a struggle between two opposing forces (“conflict”). “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield is a very good short story that helps the readers understand the conflicts beyond our emotions. In “Miss Brill”, the main character struggles with herself, society, and the supernatural. Miss Brill struggles…

The short story, "The Cathedral" by Raymond Carver is about a woman whom invited a blind acquaintance from her past to stay with her and her husband. The husband, technically, has normal vision but; he is blinded by a plethora of his discriminatory choices. Through the husband's words and actions when he is dealing with Robert, the blind man, its evident he doesn't understand what Robert’s blindness affects his life. When Robert first arrives at the house it makes the husband uncomfortable. As…

The story Cathedral, by Raymond Carver, is about how a blind man can see so much and someone with vision sees so little. The narrator has vision but lacks insight. Whereas Robert, a friend of the narrators wife, is blind but he appreciates life more. Robert helps the narrator realize what is important in life and helps him examine the way he sees the world. This story is about blindness; though someone is blind they can have more insight and appreciation of life than someone who has vision.…

In the short story " Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, the author shows that having physical sight does not mean the person can truly see. When the narrators wife invites an old friend to stay with them for a little while, the narrator is not only upset that it’s a man but also because he is blind. Through the actions and words the narrator uses, it is evident that Robert (the blind man) can see more than Bub ( narrator) can. The narrator character is not a nice one. From the first sentence…

Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, is from the view of a first-person narrative about a man who is unamused by his wife’s blind friend coming to stay in their home. His wife received a summer job ten years ago with this blind man, Robert. Over the years the two communicate through tapes, telling each other how their lives have changed since they had last seen each other. Throughout the story, the narrator is insensitive toward the connection that his wife and the blind man have. In this essay, I…

In Anton Chekhov’s short story, “A Lady with A Dog,” Dmitry Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna are two characters bound by their uncontrollable desires. Though tied by lust and loneliness, the character’s dissatisfying and emotionally damaged lives are what eventually weaken the relationship. Though the story plays with multiple themes, the most significant of those themes is that of dissatisfaction. This theme is expanded by the significant shared quality of the main characters. Both Anna and Gurov’s…