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    Interpretive Response #1 To Look or To See Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” centers upon a narrator who is psychologically blind to the world around him. Although the narrator is not physically blind and he is capable of looking at the world from his own naïve perspective, he’s incapable of actually seeing anything beyond the surface. He is detached from the world around him, isolating himself in a sheltered world that he has created for himself. His ignorance of the unknown seems to scare him,…

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    “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is a short story set somewhere in the state of New York during the early stages of color television. The wife, Beulah, brings a blind man, Robert, over to her house to introduce him to her husband. During that evening and most of the story, the focus is on the husband’s view of the blind man and how it changes once he spends time with him. At the end of the story, the husband is experiencing something that he did not predict would happen, and is surprised by it. By…

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    A cathedral is a large church from the Gothic period, but in Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”, a cathedral represents much more than that. The story of Cathedral is about an unknown man whose wife invites a long-standing friend over to stay, who happens to be blind. The unknown man, who is the narrator, is unhappy about the blind man’s visit for he has prejudices against blind people, as he has never met a blind person before. In the end, he overcomes his prejudices and everyone has a…

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    Can a person be gifted with perfect sight and yet still be blind? Raymond Carver attempts to answer this question in his short story “Cathedral” when he suggests two types of blindness: physical blindness which leaves one without visual perception and a narrow-minded blindness which causes one to fail to see the true side of people due to his or her stereotypical views and fixed opinions. In fact, in this story, a physically blind man happens to see more of the world, in a cognitive way, than a…

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    In this short reader's response essay I will simply describe or explain why I think, feel, or believe that the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek" is the best from this week. I think the short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek” was the best from this week. This was the the best short story to me because it offers two different types of conflicts and it also has the best plot. It shows that the main character Peyton was experiencing issues within himself as well as with a few members of the…

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    near equal to the Saracen army .King Guy received advice from Count Raymond as Tiberias was his holding and he knew the land best. The king was advised to let Tiberias go as the Count believed that Saladin did not plan on keeping the city just plundering it and removing its defences before returning to their own kingdom. The count advised the King to also make attempt no attack on Saladin’s army , this was the same advice Raymond gave four years earlier to Guy that led to his removal as…

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    Experience 11/2014 – Present Self-Employment Chandler, Arizona Math Tutor I helped my students by pointing out mistakes and giving advice on how to avoid mistakes on future tests. Through my teaching and test preparation, they raised their grades. 9/2014 - Present Chandler Unified School District Cafeteria Chandler, Arizona Lunch Crew Working in the cafeteria in my school, making sub sandwiches for students every day, I quickly became one of the cafeteria’s top performing employees due to my…

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    thing has on another. Raymond Chandler’s use of influence within his work is prominent and abundant. The novel, Farewell, my Lovely, displays connections between Raymond Chandler’s life as well as innovations of technology and societal differences from the 1940s which have a major influence on the evolution of crime writing. Many factors within Chandler’s time influenced his writing and the crime writing genre, including technology and the society which he grew up in. Chandler made a very…

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    world. Raymond Chandler contrasts the oil fields at the beginning of The Big Sleep to their appearance at the end to convey the destructive corrupt quality of money as it allows crimes to be hidden and false illusions to be portrayed. Chandler’s Los Angeles, similarly, reveals how money casts a nightmare-like haze over the city and filling it with fabricated images. As the Sternwoods are just beginning to acquire their wealth, the prosperous…

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    Farewell, My Lovely, as Marlowe realizes the corruption he is fighting is not a criminal, but society itself (Moss). In this way, Chandler’s characters mirror the undertow of corruption still prevalent in society today, making his work timeless. Chandler divulges his writing theory explaining the reasoning behind his characterization verses action ratio: “My theory was that readers just thought they cared about nothing but the action … The things they really cared about, and that I cared…

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