The Blind Girl

In the short story by Raymond Carver, known as “Cathedral,” the narrator is shown by Robert the blind man that he is blind figuratively as much as Robert who is literally blind. The story seeks to demonstrate how there are different aspects of blindness. The narrator shows his blindness to the world through his stereotypical ideas and assumptions before he truly meets Robert. “In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed” (76). “Sometimes they were led by seeing eye dogs” (76). The…

In the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver the cathedral that the narrator draws with Robert, the blind man, represents true sight and the ability to see beyond the surface of things in order to see the true meaning that lies within. In the beginning, the narrator can see with his eyes well, but he has trouble understanding people’s thoughts and feelings. The narrator is even unable to understand the person who is supposed to be closes to him, his own wife, and is therefore unable to…

Those incapable of sight are often considered to be limited, less fortunate and lost. Raymond Carver’s short story, “Cathedral”, explains the wonders behind those who are blind and how they see more than anyone with sight. A blind man by the name of Robert strives to open the mind of a very arrogant, detached man that does not see what the world truly is. The narrator, given the nickname Bub, and Robert symbolize two parts of society and represent different ways of thinking. The cathedral used…

also be blind to somethings. Often because someone is blind people look at them as if they cannot do as much as someone that can see, but because they are blind they realize or “see” things that others do not. The narrator thinks this way about the blind man, Robert, through most of the story. Carver uses the narrator’s point of view, imagery, and tone to show the reader how the narrator is “the blind leading the blind.” One of the big things Carver uses to show that the narrator is “the blind…

creativity acts as a healing factor to obtain a sense of life. Narrator holds a stereotypical mind set about blind people which suggests his ignorant, self-centered and insecure personality with inability to understand human relations. While illustrating his views on blind people, the narrator states,” In movies the blind moved slowly and never laughed. sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to” (75). This description signifies…

The Blind Assassin is a layered, multi genre story created by Margaret Atwood set in Port Ticonderoga, Canada throughout the 20th century. The two main characters are Iris and Laura Chase, the daughter of a rich war veteran who owns a button factory. The story itself is broken up into four subplots, all from the point of view of Iris, the eldest sister. The outermost story is of 80 year old Iris, her daily life, as she tells the second story of her family’s past, which hit on many of Atwood’s…

trick plays the boys were whipping out. I took a few moments to enjoy the happiness that these kids got from knocking down a 17-year-old American. As I walked over to my friends putting bows in these girls’ hair, I was able to witness a boost of self-confidence by a simple ribbon. Once each and every girl had a bow, they started a game of pato, pato, ganso, more commonly known as duck, duck, goose. Oh the joy I experienced in such a simple game! I only played a couple of rounds before moving…

outside of school. It was a film that had pictures of people at school and what is going on outside in their life. The second thing was the book called the hundred dresses. It was a book ops out a girl named Wanda who got made fun of because she said she had 100 dresses. In that group of girls was a girl named Maddie who didn't make fun of Wanda but she never said anything…

Question #5 Woo, the narrator, was able to connect with her dead mother and accept her Chinese heritage by fulfilling her mother’s dream of returning to China and finding the mother’s twin daughters, Woo’s half-sisters. As soon as the narrator’s train left the Hong Kong’s border to enter Shenzhen, as her mother, Suyuan, predicted, Woo could feel and see she was becoming Chinese, stating, “I feel different. I can feel the skin on my forehead tingling, my blood rushing through a new course,…

The narrator of the short piece The Moths is a fourteen-year-old girl. She is an unusual girl, who is quite different from everything and everybody, especially the feminine world. The girl from the story is entitled as being rebellious due to lack of respect, non-stop confronting her family members and being immature. She is not as “pretty or nice”, nor does she do "girly things". The story itself has many stages, themes and it gives the ability to the reader to sympathize with the protagonist…