O Brother Where Art Thou displays that not all life threatening experiences will change us for the better. Everette is a con man, someone who doesn’t believe in God and whenever something happens he says “There has to be a scientific explanation”. At the end when the sheriff catches the three men and is ready to kill them, Everette drops to his knees and starts praying to God, asking for forgiveness and a flood occurs. In literature a flood represents rebirth and a new beginning. Everette, and the viewers, think that his life will get better when the flood is over, that he will believe in God, leave the con life and his wife Penny will come back to him.
At first glance, Raymond Carver’s writing technique of “Cathedral” seems rather simplistic, but after further analysis of the story one realizes that it surfaces many levels of complexities. Carver, striving to prove an optimistic view of human attitudes and attributes, changes his character’s ignorance and disgruntlement into self realization and eagerness. “Cathedral” illustrates how the comfort zone of an introverted man can turn into fear and ultimately a prison. Carver’s character, the narrator, is caught off guard when pushed beyond this comfort zone and finds himself enlightened through the lessons of a blind man. The opening of the story begins with a thought of the stay of a blind man, Robert.
| Goeth’s allusion to Job was used to compare one man’s path to enlightenment/salvation, to another man’s path. Faust’s path was very different from Job’s, but through the allusion, it is clear that both paths are valid methods of redemption. Job reaches salvation by having faith and discipline, never straying from the path of the righteous man. Faust reaches salvation by faith that he will have a better life, but is rarely righteous. Faust tries all of the things the devil says will bring him happiness, but none of them do.
Explain your answer. The Bible gives numerous descriptions of healing by prophets and by Jesus. One such example was illustrated in John 9:1-38, The Gideons International version, when Jesus healed a blind man’s sight on Sabbath day. In those times, it was though that illness or something bad happened to people because they or their parents seined. But Jesus explained that the blind man was born blind for God to show his mightiness by healing the man.
If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.” The phantom believes that the only way he can be saved is through love. Without love, the phantom is just the same as he already is. The phantom perceives himself to be a social outcast. This gives him a distorted image of himself. In one scene, the phantom depicts himself in a cradle.
It also symbolizes that Luke is not scared and he doesn’t think he will go to hell. After Luke’s first escape, Luke’s rebels against the Captain’s authorities, the Captain therefore feels that Luke’s future is doomed. The most familiar and significant line is when the Captain tells Luke, “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” The other inmates idolize Luke for his escape and want to know all about it and what he did during his time
Michael Trager ENGL 1102 Professor Wheeler 4 June 2012 Seeing Through The narrator in “Cathedral” changes several times in the way he thinks and speaks about the blind. In this particular story, the narrator finds himself interacting with a blind man named Robert. The narrator is judgmental toward the blind, but by the end of the story he discovers more about Robert and his blindness, although, this discovery takes the narrator some time to learn. The story is very descriptive and is told mostly through the thoughts of the narrator. It begins with his pre-conceived notions about a blind man, which changes to his judgments of Robert, and ends with his acceptance of any person.
To help hold them up, so to speak…” The strongest aspect of your story struck me as being that, a physically blind man helps a psychologically blind man see without using his eyes. We see this in the passage, “The blind man said, ‘We’re drawing a cathedral. Me and him are working on it. Press hard,’ he said to me. ‘That’s right.
“ even if they did have their own troubles… Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I’d consider myself lucky. I know better know.” He also realized that all Socs are not the same, and that they're all people. “ ‘He ain’t a Soc,’ I said, ‘he’s just a guy. He just wanted to talk’ “(pg.118) He learns to separate group identity from personal identity. Ponyboy’s true character shines when he shows selflessness to save the children in the church.
You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”(Twain 137) . This quote represents Huck’s courage well because it is showing Huck feels at home because he finally feels comfortable and has a friend. When Huck says “and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n. It don't seem natural, but I reckon it's so (777). This shows courage because Huck is going against the social norm of looking down on slaves.