Cathedral Raymond Carver’s story “Cathedral” is a story full of moral lessons based on one man’s prejudice toward another. Set in the New York home of a nameless narrator and his wife, the story is about a blind man, Robert, who comes to visit the couple, and the conflict that each character faces in the midst of his visit. “His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife’s relatives in Connecticut,” the narrator states (19). The narrator’s obvious bitterness toward Robert is clearly conveyed in this statement by the lack of sensitivity in his use of the term “dead wife”.
Narrative Methods: pages 56-62 “You mean that you wish you were dead”, McCarthy continuously develops characters but slowly, creating hesitation in the reader’s minds and preventing judgement of what could be a reflection of himself and his son. Throughout the novel the man commits these selfless acts to his son. Only when an idea that his son admits his longing for death, “I wish I was with my mom”, do we see a more selfish side. McCarthy depicts this when the man tells the boy off, a first within the novel, “You mustn’t say that”, it is also the first time the man sort of says no to the boy. In consideration, self-loathing rules the man’s existence forcing him to be selfless.
| | “He thinks if he could teach him that, he’d be | | Some good perhaps to someone in the world. | 100 | He hates to see a boy the fool of books. | | Poor Silas, so concerned for other folk, | | And nothing to look backward to with pride, | | And nothing to look forward to with hope, | | So now and never any different.” | 105 | This poem conveys that people want to die on a “good note.” Mary, Warren’s wife impatiently waits for Warren to come home to tell him the news that Silas, a former helper has returned “home” because he is ill. Warren doesn’t want to waste his time dealing with Silas because Silas broke his contract he had with him. Mary pleads that Silas is sick and is in need of great help. Warren doesn’t really care because he thinks that Silas’ rich brother should take care of him.
In the concentration camp hospital, Eliezer’s neighbor remarks he has lost faith in everything except what? (A) God (B) Death (C) Hitler (D) Eliezer 22. During the long run after Buna, what does Eliezer say was the only thing that kept him from giving up? (A) His faith in God (B) His desire for justice (C) His father’s presence (D) A sense of pride 23. In the shed, taking a brief break from the run, what does Eliezer pray for?
Kendrick tells the tale of his friend’s brother in his own eyes. We no longer see Kendrick telling a story, but the brother. With this we can say that the song is dedicated to both the victim and the victim’s brother. It was said in an interview that this event was the turning point for Kendrick’s career. It is interesting to see the character Kendrick plays facing demons and guilt.
Both of the poems are very similar to each other and to ‘Romeo & Juliet’. All three share a theme of sadness expressed through them, and they are also about deaths of close ones. For example in ‘On my first sonne’ the author is talking about the death of his son, ‘Midterm break’ talks about the death of a younger brother, whereas Romeo and Juliet is about two young people dying in love with each other and how their family regrets later on. In ‘On My First Sonne’ this poem has a father-son relationship in which the father talks about losing his son. He thinks God has taken his son, which is explained in the second line “My sin was too much hope of thee, lov’d boy.” This tells me that this poem has a religious view and can show that the poem was written in the 16th century which was a different era where many of the citizens were very religious people.
Sherman Alexie created a story of recollection and reparation when he wrote “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona.” The story tells of a man named Victor who loses his job and then finds out his father died of a heart attack in Phoenix. He must come up with a way to get down to Arizona despite the lack of money or transportation. After being turned away with a mere hundred dollars from the Tribal Council, he ends up with an unlikely ally in the town outcast, a man named Thomas Builds-the-Fire. The two had grown up together, and were once friends, but have since become estranged. When Thomas offers to lend Victor the money for the trip he insists Victor must take him along.
Death of a Hired Man by Robert Frost In the poem “The Death of a Hired Man” by Robert Frost the journey back to home Silas comes to die, and the controversy going on between the wife and the husband affects their marital relationship. The wife believes that silas should be able to come home to die on the other hand the husband harbors no hard feelings toward Silas, and is against allowing him to return. Representation of home, Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / they have to take you in.” Yet Mary counters quietly with a definition of home that recalls the theology of grace, the free outpouring of divine love and mercy: “I should have called it / something you somehow haven’t to deserve.” The rest of the poem recounts her analysis of the hired-hands plight, who arguments have indeed come too late, and Frost has with devastating understatement revealed the callous soul of the Puritan heritage, what Carl Van Doren called the “unadventurous and utilitarian attitude of the Yankee rustic.” Representation of home to the husband “Warren’s definition of home offers an example of Frost’s memorable and witty statements of familiar feelings. But Frost implies that condensed and pithy expressions cut several ways: they “ring true,” but they also acknowledge the necessarily approximate and “not-quite-rightness “of language.” Reaction of wife and husband when silas comes home represents difficulty expressed by the husband and difficulty expressed by the wife, Mary expresses this difficulty when she says, “I know just how it feels/too thing of the right thing to say too late.” Her expression is itself a perfectly condensed statement- a statement about the very inability to make sure statements when emotional urgency “He’s worn out. He’s asleep beside the stove.
Since Odysseus left to go to war, he unintentionally neglected the chance to have a bonding partnership with his son Telemachus and a marital relationship with his wife Penelope. By remembering the family he has waiting for him at home, Odysseus does his best to seek a way home. Enchantress Circe informs him that “in order to reach home he must journey to the land of the dead, Hades, and consult the blind prophet Tiresias” (Homer.1.1064). In contrast to Odysseus, Edward lacks a relationship with his wife and son because he travels a lot. Unlike Odysseus, Edward has a better chance of improving the family connection he lacks because he is home from time to time.
The text states that Stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information. I can remember when in the last few weeks of the Oprah Winfrey talk show the network was running reruns of her older shows. On one rerun from 1987 a man named Jerry, and many of his neighbors where ridiculing a homosexual man who happened to have AIDS. Jerry said that he was repulsed that the individual had moved home from a large city, to a smaller community that he had grown up in. He was repulsed even though the man had actually moved home because he knew he was dying.