Third Eye Blind

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…

happened a blind elderly man crossing the road on Monument Blvd about to get hit by a truck. Instinctively, I ran out in front of the truck and pushed the blind man out of it’s path. However, some of the nitric acid had spilled from the confinement of the truck when the driver had tried to swerve around the man. The driver spun out of control and the crashed to the ground. The streets had begun to get congested and build up around the scene. The acid was everywhere, some of it got in my eye I…

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…

the narrator, his wife and Robert, gave an interesting impression towards the theme of the story. The narrator’s actions towards Robert flowed from beginning to end leading to the narrator’s realization of his newfound feelings of what Robert, as a blind man, had been going through. His blindness and loss didn’t hinder his way of life, yet allowed him to teach the narrator something important. Robert’s visit and stay at the narrator’s home with him and his wife, lead to the narrator achieving…

and grow alongside to allows a community to form and become a life that is centered around those people and activities that will ensue in that community. In the story Cathedral The Blind Man and the Wife are friends whose community expands as the Wife invites over the Blind Man to her and the Narrator's home. The Blind Man and the Wife were friends whom bonded along with his then deceased wife who died of cancer and within this friendship…

life, because of her husband. She calls her wolf pack for assistance and watches her sister attack him. In the same story, the narrator says, “But my sister was already coming. I saw her running at the man with her head low and her mare high and her eyes yellow as the winter sun”. This shows the wife has no acceptance towards her husband, therefore she sent her wolf pack to attack him. The wife’s issue of disrespecting her husband is based on her natural beliefs that humans kill…

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…

Similarly, to a blind man, he has lost his direction, ‘I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside of anything’ . What he knows and what he feels have become opposites leaving him unsure of his surroundings. Robert has slowly been able to convince the narrator to understand what he must deal with, and this reality leaves the narrator unnerved and confused as his perspective. What he knows about the blind man has changed. He no longer just sees him as another blind man ‘in…