Toleration In Foster's Cathedral

Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters do not. Dramatic and situational irony appear throughout a few of Carver’s numerous remarkable short stories. Cathedral by Raymond Carver is the story about a blind man, Robert, who visits a husband and wife in their home. One would expect the husband to be able to see more than the blind man, but ironically this is not the case. The husband who is also the narrator can physically see, but figuratively can not.

From that moment, the narrator show his true side to me. It shows that he doesn’t not care about his wife feeling toward the blind man. After carefully reading “cathedral”, the narrator is jealous of the blind man relationship with his

I awaited the Spirit’s support for Scrooge's new-found sense of selflessness, along with the Spirit being depicted comforting Scrooge when the Spirit tells Scrooge that Tiny Tim is destined to die. What contributed to my shock was the fact that the Spirit of the Present is conveyed as the most friendly of the three spirits Scrooge encounters throughout the book. This is because the Spirit of the Present is first presented to readers eating a jolly feast with plenty of guests, joyfully passing down food. Furthermore, the passage puzzled me because it shows Scrooge transforming from a selfish man to a caring old man. However, as Scrooge is already changing from the beginning of his journey with the Spirit of the Present, I wondered why does Scrooge need to visit a third ghost.

After, reading the story the reader can interpret that the truly blind person was the narrator himself. When the narrator finally puts his insecurities aside he actually starts to communicate with Robert the blind man. The story “Cathedral” shows various scenes of prejudgment, jealously, and indifference between the narrator and Robert. The story showed me that sometimes people shouldn’t judge by the exterior of people because in the interior they might have much more riches than

In his autobiographical essay, Gary Soto utilized the effect of sensual and concrete imagery, theological allusion, along with simplistic diction to demonstrate the feeling of sinners (in this case: guilt) after they execute transgression and the pleasure that come with it, while doing that Soto also show the change in personality (from being a naive and innocent child to a more mature, sophisticated one) of his 6-years of self. There’re a lot of sensual and concrete imageries that been used by Gary Soto in his essay, such as “I held the pie to my nose and breathed in its sweetness.” and “The slop was sweet and gold colored in the afternoon sun.” Soto uses this device to underscore the gratification that one may feel after when they follow

Amazingly, Antipas found himself helping the sick artisan and also starting a friendship with Simon, his former employee. Eventually, one of the Romans from Kalandion’s house and a personal friend of Antipas named Rufinus decided to join Antipas at the gathering of Christians at Antonious’s house. Unfortunately, Rufinus felt disturbed by the indifference to social class and how the Christians readily responded to the doctrines of Jesus. Consequently, Rufinus warned Antipas about the social contamination he could obtain through continuous visits with these Christians. Despite Rufinus’s warning, Antipas continuously attended Antonious’s meeting and learned more about the life and doctrine of Jesus.

The poem could be considered as patriotic. The poem talks about how the speaker has darker skin, and how he is usually sent to the kitchen to eat while there is people over. He then imagines a day where he can eat at the table with others and that they will see how beautiful he is and how “ashamed” (Hughes, 17) they were for their previous thoughts of him.

Based on analyzation from the passages given, Oliver Twist and A portrait of the Artist, both contain characters that are affected by the dialogue and situations they are put into. A few examples being, The tall boy, Oliver Twist, Fleming and Stephen. In the text it states,”at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn’t been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next to him.” The effect of the event portrays this boy as a wild and feral beast because the quote given suggests that most children in the home

In the story, the narrator’s narrow mindset is challenged over and over again as Robert breaks most stereotypes that the narrator held. As these stereotypes are broken, the narrator begins to feel more comfortable with Robert, and sincerely tells him that he is “glad for the company”. This release from prejudice culminates in the cathedral drawing scene of the story, where the narrator finally lets go of his bias towards blind people. Once the narrator closes his eyes, he is seemingly equal to Robert, and he consequently begins to understand Robert’s perspective. His newfound empathy towards Robert demonstrates how he has lost his prejudice towards him.

Using such a simple sentence, in terms of language and tone, Hughes is able to be subtle when painting a scene for the reader. Although he doesn’t describe the kitchen, most readers understand that it is not high style dining and don’t question the authenticity of this statement due to the fact the author lived through it. Looking back, we can see how these actions were inhumane and while the may have been changed, Hughes brings us

The tone of “I, Too, Sing America” is resistant and determined .This poem is written from the point of view of a darker man. The poet 's attitude towards America is self-assured. He may not be white, but he is confident in himself that he is just as great and equal to any other race out there. The poet says, “They send me to the kitchen, when company comes.

Throughout Ehrenreich’s paper you can find negative words such as “…sinister…”, “…painful…”, “…ugliness…”, and “…unfortunate…” All words chosen to prove how terrible working with food can be whether dealing with tasks, staff, or customers. The reader may be under the impression that this is how they would be treated everywhere and look down upon anyone who works in fast food. While, Eighner uses more positive words to describe his feelings and line of work such as an “…art…”, “…tempting…”, “…rich…”, “…accomplished…”, and “…pleasant…” He shows that he appreciates it by using positive words when describing most and this contributes to his purpose of showing being homelessness can be enjoyable. This shows the reader that anything can be enjoyable, it just depends on your mindset not others’ opinion and that it is normally what people agree with.

Jefferson enjoys the food he eats before he dies—he’s finally learned to take pleasure in the physical world instead of rejecting material pleasures and falling into cynicism and self-loathing. He experiences the love and

Segregation is the act of setting someone apart from others as to friendship is the act of emotions or conduct of friends. Although these two themes seem completely distinct from one another, they both tie in with the moral or theme of the stories. Segregation is highly seen in the short story “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor. The characters in this story are very opinionated about their opposite race as they all live in a time in which segregation is frequently seen. As for friendship, this is only seen amongst the characters with the same race.

Simony and Nepotism of the Catholic Church Simony and nepotism were some of the most controversial practices of the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. They both placed unjust money and power into the hands of the leaders and high offices of the Church. Though simony and nepotism are different concepts, they are similar in many ways. Simony is the buying and selling of church roles and offices while nepotism is where higher up church leaders would give their coveted church roles to their family members. Both of them are unlawful in that they give certain church roles and offices to people who do not necessarily deserve them.