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Cathedral by Raymond Carver

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

Love and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...

Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers

where she needs to go. Klara is taught from an early age that art is a very powerful thing. Her grandfather, a master carver, t...

Kate Chopin and Raymond Carver on Love

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

Life and Writings of Raymond Carver

making a comeback"(Carver 2003). This was the turning point for Carver. Many of his works are shaped by a sense of...

Three Stories and the Damage of Social Stereotypes and Prejudice

is duly noted is with the different names that people of all ethnic origins - including African-Americans themselves - use to iden...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

Raymond Carver and Relationships

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

Insight of a Blind Man in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....

Biography of George Washington Carver

In eight pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of African American scientist George Washington Carver. Eight s...

How Love is Interpreted by Mel in 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' by Raymond Carver

out, inasmuch as one cannot love someone more than life itself. Indeed, this concept proves too great a burden for another person...

'A Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...

Carver and Capote - Driven Writers

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the works of Raymond Carver and Truman Capote. The writer considers why it is that author...

'My Father's Life' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report analyzes 'My Father's Life,' a short story by Raymond Carver. Two sources are cited in the bibliography...

People and Their Actions in 'Call Me If You Need Me' by Raymond Carver

In six pages this paper discusses human behavior as analyzed by Sigmund Freud and why people act as they do in an analysis of 'Cal...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver and the Blind Man Robert

In five pages this short story by Raymond Carver is examined in an analysis of the blind character Robert and what he symbolizes. ...

Them by Joyce Carol Oates

In five pages this paper describes what the writer personally enjoyed about the text and what value can be gained from reading it....

Let the Trumpet Sound by Stephen B. Oates

In four pages this research paper examines this powerful text on the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Five sour...

Fires of Jubilee Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Oates

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

Comparison of Protagonists in Joyce Carol Oates' and Anton Chekhov's The Lady with the Pet Dog

experience, clearly illustrating how her lack of inner strength and fortitude is what stands in the way of her finding true happin...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants,' Raymond Carver's 'Are These Actual Miles?' and Marriage

He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...

Omar Salinas, Raymond Carver, and Issues of Fathers and Sons

unique voice for their character, who is at once symbolic of the old Latin America and also indicative of what the new emerging co...

The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff

needs of all human beings and must be translated into the politics and philosophies of modern life. He emphasizes the need that hu...

An Analysis of The Metamorphosis and The Stranger

Gregors father who would rather his son did not exist. And, there is Gregors mother who is of a similar opinion as the father. The...

Metaphor in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Albert Camus' The Stranger, and Heroism

In five pages these heroic protagonists are compared in terms of their differences and how they reflect the authors' quite differe...

A World of Strangers and The Living Days by Nadine Gordimer

In fifteen pages these Nadine Gordimer novels are analyzed in terms of the author's cultural life and experiences. Twenty sources...

'The Stranger' by Albert Camus and the Character of Meursault and 'Siddhartha' by Hermann Hesse

In six pages these characters are philosophically analyzed from Stoic, Sophist, Cynic, Epicurean, and Cyreniac perspectives and ex...

Existentialism and 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus

clerk in Algiers, learns of his mothers death in a nursing home. He attends her funeral without any show of sorrow. He neither we...

Character of Mersault in The Stranger by Albert Camus

This essay consisting of eight pages evaluates the ways in which this good man is destroyed by the civilization that refuses to ac...