Hurston uses the motif of time to identify Janie's awareness of her marriage, telling the reader she becomes weary of her relationship. The narrator states, “twenty-four” as Janie's age and already “seven years married” (14-15) (15). Emphasizing the portion of Janie's life spent with Joe creates a feeling of slowness. This feeling relates with Janie who looks back on her relationship and sees a length of time nearly unmeasurable with words, suggesting she is weary of her relationship with Joe. Another “unmeasurable” (26) amount of time passed is when Janie realizes she has no feelings for Joe after they have a conflict.
Unrealistically, the narrator believes that she would be of use to her father more and more as she got older. As she grows older she is separated from her gender and the opposite gender. The narrator’s community believes that the male gender is superior to the female gender. The narrator first experience with this was when the salesman stopped at their house one day and she was introduced by her father, the salesman unacquaintedly express’s, “I thought it was only a girl” (49). This goes to show that the salesman thinks that the female gender is not as great as the opposite gender, they are not valued the same as of what the male gender is.
The one main character in this story is Naomi, although the some of the other characters are Will, James and Mr. Porter (Naomi’s dad). Two words that most describe Naomi are caring and forgetful. An exact example from the book would be when Ace, Naomi’s boyfriend from before the accident, asked her if she remembered an event that happened a year ago. Because of her condition, of course Naomi did not remember. Will is a kind and worrisome person.
When I first started reading “Cathedral”, by Raymond Carver, I found that the main of the story, I saw that he really didn’t know better, and that’s probably how other people would ignorance. It starts with a woman inviting, what seems, to be her only close friend to stay over; who is also blind and male. As the story progresses, you can tell that the husband is a little to stay the night. The blind man, Robert, and his deceased wife, Beulah are the only ones in the story who are given names, which probably signifies that the husband and the wife can be everyday people and Robert and Beulah are more of idealistic figures of the story. Before the Robert comes to stay, the husband criticizes him and
Exercise #1 Cathedral by: Raymond Carver In the story Cathedral by Raymond Carver the narrator is a man who is unnamed. He is married, and an old friend of his wife is coming to see her. The narrator does not seem too happy about Robert; the visitor staying at his house. The reason why he seems to act the way he does is because Robert and his wife have kept in contact through the years and she talks very highly of him, to the point where the narrator does not want him staying in his home. “My idea of blindness came from the movies.
An example of Evyn being unintelligent was when her so-called friends, Andrea’s group, calls her Evelyn and doesn’t talk to her unless it’s to ask about updates with Ajax, she doesn’t realize that they’re just using her. Evyn was also, very inconsiderate and selfish. She didn’t seem to notice how happy her father, Birdie was after he had proposed to Eleni. Evyn doesn’t seem to care what his father felt and made it harder for him. “Bounce” was an interesting book that showed problems that actually happen to 13 year olds.
McIntyre went to school with Grace’s mother. But they were never friends. It is obvious that Grace’s mother doesn’t like Mrs. McIntyre. She talks about how old she looks even though they’re the same age, and as soon as Grace starts to spend time with her, are Grace’s parents fast to say to her, that she should do something else. But Grace doesn’t want to do anything else.
“So, you didn’t let Clinton watch any extra television last night.” Despite this Clinton is his mothers life. She says she understand that she wasn’t right to baby him so much and that it is the reason for the way he is today. Even as some of his behavior concerns her she finds him to be a “sensitive, caring child she wouldn’t
After Stanley leaves for the Four Deuces, but he says, “Not in front of your sister”(P.78). Blanche nervously asks Stella what people have been saying about her. She begins to confess that she was not always so good when she was under the stress of lossing the Belle Reve. She begins to talk frank of being soft and growing old and worrying that she no longer has what it takes to “turn the
After many hours, watching others walk to the alter, and Auntie Reed expecting him to be saved, Langston walks to the alter. Langston only got up to be saved because it was getting late and it was expected to him. Since Langston did not feel or see Jesus, he wondered if Jesus even existed. This is the basis of the conflict and deceit. In the short story “Salvation”, Langston uses imagery, irony, and figurative language.