Blindness

Through awareness, we create change, and sometimes it takes an unforeseeable encounter with a peculiar individual, to ignite our awareness, and educate our perception. It’s up to us to accept the awareness and allow the change or to be aware and avoid the change. The Narrator in “Cathedral”, by Raymond Carver, experiences awareness through Robert, the blind man. Similarly, Victor in “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, by Sherman Alexie, finds realization, through the company of…

One of the most feared injuries a person can experience is permanent vision loss or blindness. This injury is often associated with medical errors; Medical Malpractice. To awaken from a long but otherwise successful surgery for something unrelated to vision entirely, and feel an indescribable scorching, burning, shooting, extreme pain deep within your eye and realize that your vision in that eye is completely gone, is tremendously frightening and devastating. The first thing I remember when…

Reaction Paper In a world in which sight is the most commonly used sense, people gifted with the ability to see often do not take advantage of all of the wonderful perceptual cues around them. People like Mike Mays, John Hull, and Sabriye Tenberken have overcome the obstacles of being blind, and have inspired others to do so. One of the many challenges people without sight have to face is ridicule. I was not surprised at how poorly blind people were treated because I learned in my…

When someone tells you a story you are expecting to hear what actually happens. That is not always the case. We have certain characters from stories whom we encounter that they way the story is told is so believable, even though is not true. But there is always the case when story is told unbelievably, and we end up believing the facts that are presented to us, as readers. Two stories that come in mind about main characters or narrators whose stories are told in different aspects – believable…

We all tend to judge people by what we see on the outside occasionally. Either from what they are wearing or how they are going about their days. This is just a small issue in this book that the author uses to make sense of the plot of the story. The details in this story are very specific to what’s happening which makes it very easy to understand the author’s perspective. The author uses an interaction between a blind man and a stressed husband to get the point across you should never assume…

Unlike other students in my class, the place where I did my service learning was a little bit different. What made it so different was that there was a lot more, at least I felt, elderly people as opposed to people with disabilities. Sure they may have been a few that if you went there you could maybe tell that they were disabled but honestly, after putting in so many years of visiting nursing homes with multiple groups, I couldn’t even tell if the younger people there were there for the program…

“Cathedral” by R. Carver Lola Helms He uses the sense of sight to show what the blind man is deprived of, but he also uses the sense of touch in order to show what the blind man has. Because the blind man has no sight, he could not read or watch television. When he fell in love with his wife and married her, living all those years by her side, he could not see her. He had no idea what she really looked like, and she passed away without being able to see herself…

Everyone knows what it feels like to have expectations put onto them. Expectations the come from personal experience or from other people. A need to improve and do better, have the next generation be better than the previous one. Expectations that will hopefully help to motivate someone and encourage them to be the best that they can be. Yet sometimes expectations can have the complete opposite effect on someone. Destroying them from the inside out and causing them to suddenly not care anymore.…

Disability is a physical or mental disadvantage that limits a person’s senses and actions in everyday life. It requires the failure of functioning that impairs opportunity for human flourishing. Some disabilities do not reduce the incapacity of the person being able to flourish. There has been a widespread of an ugly attitude towards people who have the disability trait. People without disabilities are seen as somebody without imperfections, but someone engineered, as a human being should be.…

In the story Cathedral, the narrator's mood changes from being jealous in a way to feeling connected with the blind man. In the beginning when he talks about the blind man he speaks in short sentences and avoids certain topics. Throughout the story he likes talking about his relationship with his wife and all of their good times. He likes to make jokes about the blind man saying things like "maybe I can take him bowling" and things of the sort. Gradually through the movie the narrator becomes…