Maroon curtains were drawn on the play’s performance. People stood up and clapped their hands‚ for what they assumed to have been a brilliant performance of the high school students. The dimly lit auditorium was flooded with color when the lights flickered back on. Everyone‚ except for me‚ started to stretch and mingle about the room. Some people went to the refreshment stand or to the washroom during the intermission. Conversations started to ignite as well as ringing phones made the place feel
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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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Chekhov and Carver say about the struggles of real life in the society around them? Discuss‚ using quotes and references to characters and scenes within the chosen short stories. The short stories‚ ‘The Bet’ and ‘Cathedral’ by Anton Chekhov and Raymond Carver respectively‚ both investigate the struggles of real life in society around them. Chekhov and Carver present the struggles created by greed and jealousy‚ how easily one takes things for granted and the affect of social isolation on the mental
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Pleasantly Obese Raymond Carver’s short story “Fat” brings the reader through a life changing moment for a waitress. The unnamed woman‚ who describes her encounter with an obese man to her friend Rita‚ is completely engaged in everything about the fat man while she waits him; his size‚ his appetite‚ and especially his hospitality towards her. Through the waitress’ thoughts‚ Carver repeatedly brings up the concept of obesity in his story. He allows her mind to tell the reader which parts are important
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“Cathedral” is a very complex short story. Although the actual story only takes up about 5 pages‚ that’s all Raymond Carver needed to compel an invigorating enlightenment. The narrator of this story is unnamed yet we get to see him grow rapidly in this short story. After meeting Robert‚ who at one time was his wife’s boss‚ he begins to see the world differently‚ and is able to change his views and realize the world isn’t as black and white as he would like it to be. When we meet the narrator he is
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Mushrooms by Silvia Plath Thinking/Talking Points: 1. a) They way the poem is written out is very unusual and interesting‚ which was already pointed out by you in class. When turning the page 90 degrees you may see something that looks similar to a field of mushrooms. Or when looking at the stanzas you can see that all of them are short (stanza with three short lines)‚ also the poem is consists of many stanzas which one could compare to the “typical” or ”standard” mushrooms you see
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the many themes in Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the novel Jean Louise Finch (Scout) overhears countless rumors about certain folks in Maycomb County‚ such as Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose is a revolting old lady‚ Mr. Dolphus Raymond is an evil man‚ and Arthur Radley (Boo) is the most rebellious individual in Maycomb. However‚ truly in the end Scout comes to know the people she once feared; and she realizes that they are not as bad as Maycomb citizens make them out to be.
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Raymond Carver’s Short Stories In reading both stories “Mine” and “Little Things” and another which is basically the same as the second story “Little Things” but with a different name “Popular Mechanics”. “Mind was written in 1977‚ “Popular Mechanics” which was rewritten in 1981‚ and finally Mr. Carver retitled the story as “Little Things”. The original story was rewritten with subtle small changes and it changed the direction in which the reader focuses his attention. All of these small changes
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“regional” broker/dealers who had the same product scope as wirehouses but were based solely outside of New York. What “channels’ does Raymond James use to serve individual investors? Raymond James currently has two channels. One was a network of employee financial advisors. The additional channel was a network of independent financial advisors who had access to Raymond James’ product and services‚ research‚ back office operations‚ and brand name through an independent contractor relationship. What
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