Jesus 9 Research Paper

In the short story, Cathedral by Raymond Carver, the word “blind” acquires different meanings. The unnamed narrator is metaphorically blind; he can look at the surface of everything but not see what is inside. Although the narrator can listen to conversations, he cannot understand the deeper emotional context the conversation might hold, compared to Robert, who is visually impaired but can truly listen and understand. It is not until the end of the story that the narrator metaphorically opens his eyes, with assistance from Robert.

In the “Cathedral,” Raymond Carver tried to portray two different aspects of blindness; one is a person who physically unable to see the world due to lack of eyes and other aspect concerns about narrator’s and his wife’s blindness who are not blind physical but socially and emotionally. In this story, there are various metaphors of blindness. One example of which is a blind person helping the other person (who is not visually impaired) to draw cathedral even though he hasn't seen one. Blindness is not a physical inability of a person; it's beyond than that. In the “Cathedral,” Robert wasn’t the one that was blind however, the narrator was blind.

Chapter 11: More Than Its Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie shoots Tea Cake. It reveals that Janie is finally free from dealing with men. She finally sticks up for herself and stops running away from her problems. An example of authorial violence is at the end of Frankenstein when Victor dies.

John Hull, a religious studies professor in England, easily debunks one cultural “reality” that constantly surrounds blind people, which is: people who suffer from blindness has lost all meaning in life and are less informed regarding the

After the narrator’s first failed attempt in using the right words to describe what he sees, the blind man asks him to get a pen and a paper, puts his hand on the narrator’s hand that is holding the pen, and asks him to draw the cathedral. Then, the blind man tells the narrator to close his eyes while he continues drawing. For the first time the narrator appears to be able to see.

What Raymond Carver tries to tell us with this short story is that we should not be like the narrator. Nothing good comes from prejudice and preconceptions. You should rather keep an open mind and conclude from things you experience or see rather than conclude from things you expect or think. At the end of the story the narrator learns this and a whole new world opens to him. The blind man helped him learn to see.

When one thinks of being blind, they think of someone who literally can not see, but one can also be blind by lacking perception or awareness. People who have sight and yet are blind is clearly seen in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story based in the 1930’s when racial issues are heavily present. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and throughout history, people or groups of people have existed who can literally see the world around them, and yet are blind to the truth; but, as seen in the novel, some of these people’s eyes can be opened to the truth either by empathy or experiences.

Deep in the forest lived a blind man named Carl. Once a week Carl would travel to the nearest city to buy supplies and food. One day, a young boy decided to play a trick on Carl, the boy would catch a bug, and then ask if the bug was alive or dead. If Carl said “alive” the boy would crush the bug and show Carl the bug was dead. If Carl answered “dead” the boy would let the bug fly away, alive. The next time Carl visited the city, the boy executed his plan and asked Carl if the bug was alive or dead. Carl’s simple response was, “It is what you choose it to be.” Wisdom does not require literal sight as shown throughout both

In his short story “Cathedral” Raymond Carver uses a unnamed narrator to tell his story in a first person point of view. Other than his name we get to know that he has a wife who's blind friends, Robert, wife just passed away and is visiting her family in Connecticut. During Roberts stay in Connecticut he will be staying at their house. While the man was able to see perfectly from his eyes he wasn't able to see his surroundings and others feelings. On the other hand Robert was lacking eye sight but was able to understand people very well. The narrator feels bad for Robert because he has never seen his wife, but the truth is he saw and understood her in his own way. Sometimes we can see someone but cant really see what they are feeling or trying

This shows how the narrator was about his knowledge of cathedrals and when the blind man asks

John Milton blindness might have stopped him from during many things but he surely didn’t stop doing what he loved. He continue writing and doing his day to day living for he might one day have to present his Maker an account of his live and his faith. “Milton’s faith in God seems to give him the courage to face his life despite his blindness. It is this faith that seems to give him courage and patience to cope and also gives him the hope that salvation lies for those who wait in patience (Darr). John Milton continue with his live even though he was blind but this didn’t stop him because he was doing what he loved and also because of his faith in God.

In these two stories, a centurion and two blind men displayed their faith in God. To start off, in the story about the centurion, a man asked Jesus to heal his paralyzed servant. However, when Jesus offered to go the the centurion’s house and heal the servant, the centurion replied and told Jesus, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.” (Doc. 1).

Jesus’ initial response seems somewhat hard and insensitive to me, but as Laney notes He is addressing the Jewish people in general and the fact that they have a need to see signs to justify their faith. (Laney, 1992, p.102)

Thirdly, not everyone can see. Some of the most accomplished and amazing people are blind and cannot experience things through sight. For them, seeing cannot be believing. Hellen Keller could not see or hear, yet she could communicate and believe in things just like the rest of us. For her, seeing is not believing because she can not

“Two blind men... shouted, ‘Lord, have mercy on us!’ ... Jesus stopped and called them. ‘What do you want Me to do for you?’ He asked.” Matthew 20:30-32