The Blind Side

and unexpected way so by the end of the tale, all characters will experience a dramatic change. When Narrator, at the beginning of the story when he learns that Robert is coming to visit, he gets jealous and angry. Even though he isn’t literally blind, he shows a lack of insight and self-awareness, in many ways, that make him blinder than Robert. He can see perfectly fine with his eyes, but he has trouble understanding people’s thoughts and feelings lie underneath the surface. He then…

discuss “Cathedral” by Raymond carver for my first essay and how the blind man, Robert, inspires the narrator, the husband of Robert’s friend, to really see the world despite being blind. "Cathedral" is narrated by a man whose wife has an old friend who is coming to visit from Seattle. The friend is blind and his wife has just passed away. The narrator identifies Robert's blindness as his defining characteristic. Though Robert is blind, he can perceive the world in ways the narrator cannot…

Who am I without him? In the story so “so I ain’t no good girl” the author stated that she isn’t a good girl .The girl is in love with a guy named Raheem. She was waiting for him at the bus stop one day, and Raheem told her to go to school herself, but when she left Raheem had went with that girl that was looking at Raheem last time .Flake uses the story “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” to reveal how the main character in the story feels about her man (Raheem). Flake starts…

Cathedral by Raymond Carver is a short story that tells a narrative about a woman, her husband, and a blind man that is well acquainted with the wife. Throughout this story, there is quite a inexplicable aspect regarding the blind man. The blind man, Robert, and the woman had been friends for many years, and her husband is finally getting the opportunity to meet him. The husband, who is also the narrator for this story, does not know anything about this man. There is a lot of mystery surrounding…

Even the regular people in El Valle, they notice it," he said. " They don't tell me, 'What happened to the frogs? We don't hear them calling anymore." (Griffith,25) "What happened to the frogs?" (Griffith, 25) This line alone struck me since it's one of the main points of the book. Griffith asks what happened to the frogs in El Valle, he knew the golden frog was at risk for possible extinction, but had the extinction come sooner then he thought? The golden frog once was an extremly popular…

short story’s characters and give a sense of optimism and awareness to the reader. People who are blind don’t seem to see the environment around them, but they’re capable of visualizing whatever surrounds them. Just because a person is born blind or considered blind doesn’t mean they are limited to certain activities. It creates this absolute uncertainty for the narrator trying to connect with Robert, a blind man…

where I can completely fathom their situation. People tend to evaluate others harshly when they don’t know them personally. In “The Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, the husband has a hard time understanding the relationship between the wife and the blind man, Robert. Throughout the story, Carver shows us that assumptions interfere with the overall impression of a person and that audible communication increases understanding by using literary devices and elements of character. Carver gives the…

narrator isn’t actually blind, he lacks awareness that makes him more blind than the actual blind person in the story, Robert. The narrator begins talking about how he knows what a blind person is like from the movies he has seen. Blind people to him “moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs” (Carver 200). As the story…

In the short stories “What of this Goldfish, Would You Wish,” and “The Wife’s Story,” by Elgar Karet and Ursulu K. LeGun, respectively, and the majority of the opinion by Justice Brennan, ”Texas v. Johnson,” characters or people do not show acceptance of others who are different. In the “Goldfish” story a young man from Israel named Yonatan decided to make a documentary of him going door-to-door to ask strangers what they would wish upon if they had a goldfish that could grant them three wishes.…

Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, is a short story illustrating the narrator’s insensitive thoughts and emotions towards his wife’s blind friend and his own limited awareness or (interference) with himself. The narrator then experiences freedom like he never has before alongside Robert, the blind man. Carver interprets different forms of blind both physically and mentally or emotionally. The unnamed narrator makes _________ remarks towards Robert and his wife. He first begins with asking his wife…