CATHEDRAL by Raymond Carver Raymond Carver‚ the author of Cathedral was born in Oregon in 1938. He came from a poor family. At the age of 40 he was one of the most promising writers of his generation and was also near ruin in everyway from alcoholism. He quit drinking but lung cancer took over- taking his life at the age of 50. He wrote 3 collections of stories: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”‚“ Cathedral” and “Elephant”‚ poems and essays. He was considered a minimalist until Cathedral
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TONE: personal‚ AUTHOR: Les Murray‚ one of Australia’s greatest poets Poems written strongly‚ passionately & meaning THE SUPERFICIAL MEANING… an ordinary man crying… the town talks… unacceptable - men don’t cry especially in public people stop everything - stare/watch‚ have no idea what to do or think police who tried stopping him‚ wanted to cry‚ yet couldn’t because they weren’t free (uniform) the children accept - their innocence not influenced by adults some people will never come to
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“Heroes are ordinary people‚ they just have the endurance to go one moment more”. Anybody can be a hero. The difference is a hero has the guts and determination to go into the chaotic situation and save the day even if that means risking their own life. Heroes are willing to do incredible things and they never think of going back and are not worrying about themselves. Ordinary people may want to save the world and make it a better place‚ but heroes are the ones who take action and go the extra mile
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An Analysis of Cathedral Raymond Carver’s "Cathedral" appears to be a simple visit between a man’s wife and her long time friend Robert‚ but Carver is essentially creating a newly established friendship between Robert and Bub to show stereotypes and barriers can be broken. Carver’s portrayal of Bub as a simple‚ ignorant‚ and stereotypical man‚ who easily labels things as impotent or useless‚ is used to show how all people can build and create stereotypes around people we don’t know. Instead
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Case Study: Ordinary Portland Cement INTRODUCTION • Cement – Is a material with adhesive and cohesive properties which is capable of bonding mineral fragments into a compact-solid whole • Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) – Is a hydraulic cement. It is used in the making of concrete with property of setting and hardening‚ of which when the chemical properties reacts with water. OPC Does not disintegrate in water as it sets and hardens in water • Reason of widely usage in Malaysia – Is because
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An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow This poem‚ written by Les Murray‚ reflects upon all aspects of the human condition‚ from the fear of change to the need for conformity‚ uncovering the ultimate truth of the universal desire to belong. Set in a society which significantly resembles today’s world‚ where feelings and emotions are kept hidden and people are caught up in their busy lives‚ it explores the realms of acceptance and the ways in which societal norms shape a sense of self. Although not quite an
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Sometimes Ordinary is Extraordinary Toilet paper. To some‚ it is just a thankless object‚ but to me‚ it is a precious commodity. Years before I discovered a blank canvas and paintbrush‚ toilet paper was the medium I used for my artistic creations. You see‚ my mother would allow only one Barbie doll‚ and this doll had only one outfit. A boring Barbie doll was not acceptable to an imaginative 4-year-old girl‚ so I came up with a clever solution! I started to design my doll clothes using omnipresent
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person has done or will do. In today’s society certain characteristics are viewed in a negative light due to the changing ways of everyday life and increasing deviation of traditional American views to ones of a more liberal nature. In “Cathedral” Raymond Carver writes of a man who is addicted to drugs and alcohol‚ which creates psychological distance from the narrator‚ his wife‚ and the blind man. This is caused by the narrators need to escape reality and enjoy a world that is not his own.
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God will allow us to overcome anything thrown our way. Every day we are faced with challenges and if we respond to these challenges through God and knowing that God is there for us‚ we will be able to defeat the challenges thrown our way. In Ordinary Grace‚ the Drum family is faced with the challenge of their daughter being killed. With this tragic event happening in their lives‚ they had to decide how they were going to respond to the death of their daughter. Nathan Drum responds to the challenge
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I am deeply ambivalent about Raymond Carver. My beef with this particular dead guy has less to do with his fine stories than with his 1980s-era apotheosis into an academic demigod‚ his canonization as St. Ray of the MFA programs‚ the way his works and style became paradigms to be slavishly imitated by a generation (maybe two generations now) of American writing students‚ a process of sowing that came to barren fruition in the bland‚ flat‚ snowy fields of zero-degree Minimalist prose. All this has
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