Raymond Carver's Neighbors

Walls’ memoir opens when she is three years old, cooking hot dogs in her family’s trailer in Arizona; she subsequently lights herself on fire and ends up spending 6 weeks in the local hospital for severe burns. This is the first and one of the strongest examples of her parents’ neglect, but Jeannette stays positive about it and learns from her parents not to fear fire. Most of the Walls children’s childhood out west was spent on the move, something Jeannette loved; this is evident in a short conversation with her sister Lori: “’Do you like always moving around?’ Lori asked me. ‘Of course I do!’ I said” (Walls 29). Jeannette adopts a ‘it could always be worst’ mentality to stay positive, even as her father Rex Walls lost jobs, and the family barely had enough food to sustain themselves. Her attitude towards her father stayed favorable, while perhaps a bit naive, defending him against the criticism from her siblings; an example of this is her “’He does! I said. He brings in money from odd jobs’” when Lori announced their father needed to “start carrying his own weight” (Walls 78). Jeannette shares a special bond with her father as they embark on imaginary adventures such as Demon Hunting, and plan the Glass Castle, a glorious glass house Rex plans on building for the

When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.

“But afterward the townspeople, theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors, found fantasy re-creating them over and over again—those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare of which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers.”

In the detailed story of an impoverished family during the late 1900’s, Jeannette Walls describes her experience from the young age of 3, up until adulthood. The family of 6, with Rex Walls as the father, Rose Mary as the mother, and her three siblings, Lori, Brian and Maureen, were constantly moving throughout the country with little to no food or cash. The memoir shows how dysfunctional the family was, but never seemed to force the reader to condemn the parents. In a life of poverty, the have to move for own to town, and often lived in various mining towns. Although they each found something they learned to love (like Jeannette’s rock collection) in the desert, they had to leave them behind once Rex’s alcoholism only worsened, and they ran

In the book Seedfolks, a character named Kim enters a vacant lot in her town, Cleveland, Ohio, to plant Lima Beans to honor her father, who passed away before Kim was even born. While Kim is in the process of planting her beans and watering them daily, people around the vacant lot being to notice her actions . Many people followed what Kim was doing and made their own little garden, which causes the community of Cleveland to be together and to communicate with one another. Throughout the book many characters come and go in the garden, and each character shares something in common with someone else. The garden brings people together, and helps them communicate with one another, without the garden, some people might never have communicated with someone that has a different appearance as them. The novel Seedfolks shows us, that the garden changed everyone’s perspectives on people in their community and how they judge them by appearance. It shows how you can give someone chances, before you can judge them. Some people that show this theme, are Kim, Ana, Sae Young, Maricela, Sam, and Curtis.

May observe the workers while sheltering themselves for a few moments from the rain. Before hearing their voices and discovering what each man represents, however, one must first see the lower-class laborers and their working conditions through the visitors’ eyes. The gentlemen observe Hugh, a “morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor,” who, according to Morrison, still “clings to the hope that there are alternatives to his present situation” (246). Hugh is aware of other options that life has to offer, and although he does not know what it is that makes him different, he is “aware that his occupation has effaced the man he once was or could have been” (Morrison 247). The visitors also see Deb, “miserable, lying on the ashes like a limp, dirty rag,” rejected and pitied by all who know her. Deb, “a deformed, hunch-backed…weak, flaccid wretch,” is seen by the visitors as “…the scene of hopeless discomfort and veiled crime…more fit to be a type of her class”

They even allowed them into their houses. They gathered wood and made fire path to their houses, in the morning they brought them food “in every way hospitably. The author uses Characterization to show the kindness of how they were feeling about the indians being welcomed in and has sympathy for people they never met..

When Janie reemerges in Eatonville at the beginning of the novel, a disheveled, weary, yet contented spirit at peace in her heart, the presence of the porch sitters transform into the town’s obligatory witness who judges Janie’s transgressions and rebirth. As a result, the porch and its occupants merge into an integral, single identity and characterization of its own.

How does Tim Winton’s short story ‘Neighbours’ explore the transition of individuals into new phases of life and new social context?

During the 1930's society still had its fair share of imperfections. They were very poor, especially the farmers. The farmers were poor because they kept planting more plants to pay their debts and taxes, but no one around them had enough money to buy their product. Next, the colored people and white people were still separated. The white society like to pretend they were equal and everything was fine, but they were not even close. They were separated in many ways like where they could sit on a bus, where they could eat and drink, and even where they went to church. At that time there was so much judgement coming from society. Our current society is also very judgmental, but it used to be much worse. it was very socially unacceptable for a

The visionary ideas that were illustrated in both Edward Hopper and Raymond Carver works sketched the image of the characters experiencing the sense of isolation and despair as well as finding identity. Examining Carver “Chef's House” and Hopper Rooms by the Sea we observe the internal conflict created by isolation with the feeling of losing hope with the uncomfortable feel of crisis but also identity. The idea of identity was explored by Carver when edna puts her wedding ring back on when she went and stayed with wes (her ex husband) during the summer at the chef’s house after leaving her boyfriend. In paragraph 3 of “Chef’s House” Edna states “I put my wedding ring back on.

In the beginning of the story, there is a mention of one small window, “Shoulder-high window that faced the backyard,” referencing to the fact that few people really see Carver for who he is and the struggle he faces. Carver also wrote, “Cars slushed by on the street outside, where it was getting dark. But it was getting dark on the inside too,” This means that no matter how difficult it seems to get for him, it is always more so when you know the whole story. Carver also must know of horrible homes, because of his struggles to keep his own family together. From a childhood riddled with the aftermath of the great depression, to accounts of him abusing his first wife, Raymond is no stranger to unhealthy

Through Raymond Carver’s minimalist styled writing, comes “Neighbors,” a story about a seemingly ordinary couple who live dreary and plain lives. In the first few paragraphs we have a detailed description of the type of people, the relationship, and occupations Bill and Arlene Miller have. Later on, the story begins to spark a more dark and mysterious conflict by unraveling the Miller’s strange obsessions. Carver uses third person objective point of view to add onto his technique of simplistic writing & to create a more intense mystery.

The novel starts with the primer of Dick and Jane that promises the perfect family and home for which Pecola never stops searching in the book: “Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green-and-white house. They are very happy” (7). But as these lines are repeated in several paragraphs, it becomes an unpunctuated, frantic stream of language suggesting that behind this comfort myth lies a disrupting and disordered reality. The house is an antidote to being outdoors. “Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of a yard, a porch, a grape arbor” (18). This home desire is also one to curb the funkiness or the excess of the lives of the characters. But home as paradise is quickly translated into prison: “What they do not know is that this plain brown girl will build her nest stick by stick, make it her own inviolable world, and stand guard over its every plant, weed, and doily, even against him” (69). The haouse is a jail and a respite simultaneously, just like the community the house appears to promise comfort and rest but fails to do so for Pecola in

We live in a universe of complexity and uncertainty. The global connectedness of the twenty first century means that everything in this world is interrelated and connected. Within the Australian context, due to globalisation and mass migration, Australia is ethnically and culturally diverse. Australia is also enriched with Indigenous Australian culture. A unique and multicultural community, Australia is therefore dynamic, diverse and constantly growing. This means that our schools are also dynamic, complex and culturally diverse. Students attending schools in Australia will come from diverse cultural backgrounds and will consequently have diverse needs. Using critical theory and post-colonialism, this paper will focus upon how teachers’ intercultural sensitivities about difference and diversity (more specifically, cultural diversity) might impact upon students learning.