“Will You Please be Quiet‚ Please” is a short story collection that explores the human condition in the blue collar‚ working class citizens of the 1960’s in America. Carver is known not only for his minimalist style of writing‚ but also for his habit of basing many‚ if not all‚ of his stories on his own real life experiences. In this collection‚ Carver shows modern life as a series of hardships whereby ordinary people‚ who have the odds stacked against them‚ must battle for survival. He explores
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author finishes a polished piece of fiction. Raymond Carver’s Will You Please Be Quiet‚ Please? however will appeal to the mass audience of fiction readers throughout all genres‚ because Raymond Carver allows for his readers to become lost in his vivid and continoues dreams which he concurs with raw splendor and sinster truth. Carver’s book is a collection of fictional realism pieces that have many common threads of writing devices and themes‚ but Carver expresses and explores unique‚ nearly taboo
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Will you please be quiet‚ please? Raymond Carver Chapter Summaries “Fat” A waitress serves a fat man and is moved by the experience. “Neighbors” A couple house-sitting for neighbors are gradually taking over their neighbors’ lives. They begin to enjoy the feeling of voyeurism and begin to hope: One says‚ “Maybe they won’t come back.” “The Idea” A couple spies on a man who spies on his own wife from his garden. “They’re Not your Husband” Details an out of work salesman´s response to the
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1. Will You Please Be Quiet‚ Please? by Raymond Carver Read the following stories; ‘Neighbors’ and ‘Why Honey’ These two stories should be annotated to reflect the close reading these tasks require. Neighbours * A list of the central characters‚ and key textual elements in their construction (images‚ descriptions‚ names‚ relationships). * Bill and Arlene miller – couple * Harriet and Jim Stones – lived across the hall * Apartment * Sunburst clock * Mirror
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1. What is the story about? Answer this question in two sentences – one that explains the story literally‚ and one sentence that considers the deeper meanings and messages. Lee Waite lives on his sixty acres of land‚ with his family. He usually sits on the porch to see if anyone tries to trespass‚ since he received the phone call from his friend Joseph Eagle that people are hunting on his land. One day he hears people on his land‚ and gets his gun and moves towards them. He tells them to leave immediately
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replacements for their job and to think of ways in which they can get out of the problem‚ if ever there is a possible way to do so. In fact‚ even after the lay-off of almost 8‚000 employees or 20 per cent of the company’s employees‚ it was still listed as number 31 on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. This goes to show that despite the massive layoff‚ they still proved their worth as an employer‚ because they have open communication practices. They do not hide from their employees what
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ON SAYING PLEASE About the author Alfred George Gardiner (1865–1946)‚ a British journalist and author‚ is highly regarded in the literary arena. From 1915 he contributed to The Star under the pseudonym (pen name) Alpha of the Plough. At the time‚ The Star had several anonymous essayists whose pseudonyms were the names of stars. Invited to choose the name of a star as a pseudonym he chose the name of the brightest (alpha) star in the constellation ‘the Plough’. His essays are uniformly elegant
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fellow human beings. The reasons for this lust for power could be many‚ and some of them are mentioned in the short story “Why‚ honey?” The story “Why‚ honey?” is written by Raymond Carver in 1976. It’s a short story written in a letter format‚ which means it has a 1st person narrator. This format makes it possible for Mr. Carver to confuse the reader‚ because the reader is unsure of whom the letter is addressed to. All we know is that the letter is given the view point of a mother writing about her
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English 102-BB 24‚ April 2010 Love? Raymond Carver was a short story writer who was born in the Pacific Northwest. He was a textbook editor‚ lecturer and teacher while writing. His stories featured some of his trademarks of‚ alcohol‚ poverty‚ and people in real life situations. Carver was influenced to write about these trademarks through experiences he had lived and influences that were brought upon him‚ like alcoholism and divorce. Raymond Carver and his father were alcoholics and had both
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