The Blind Side

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…

but coach cotton didn't give up on trying to get Michael into the school. One night Michael was walking out in the rain on the side of the road. Leigh Anne Tuohy noticed Michael and pulled over. Michael explained he had nowhere to…

My third concept will be relational turning points: transformative events that alter the relationship in a fundamental way (page 336). This concept ties to the scene at the end of the movie where Michael officially decides to go to college at Ole Miss. When the investigator talks to Michael about the Tuohy’s and Ole Miss, and when Michael escalates and runs away, Leigh Anne stays faithful that he would return and realizes that she and Sean had been pressuring him to go to Ole Miss. The couple…

on torture, guilt, atonement, and power. The magistrate sees the blind girl as a way of trying to get forgiveness for the acts he did and he witnessed as a magistrate. At the beginning he just wants to help the blind girl but later on, the relationship turns from a charity…

Sidney Poitier is a famous African American actor and director who has earned many awards for his love of acting. Sidney had a hard childhood and did not have very good behavior in his early life. He saw plenty of racism and prejudice in his childhood and helped put a stop to it in his adult life. He never had a great education but he still had many significant accomplishments! Sidney was born prematurely on February 20, 1927 to a poor family in Miami, Florida while the Bahamian…

In Chapter 4 of Outlier’s "The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2," starts out about the story of growth in Chris Langan. It about Chris Langan and how came up from poverty and a troubled childhood: with his biological father disappearing at a young age and how he took his last name from his biological mother's abusive and thoughtless fourth husband. After how Langan grew up during hard times, Langan eventually attended Reed College on a full scholarship. However, in which he lost the…