The Lazarus Project Analysis

Sometimes we have to look beyond what we see on the outside to understand something more deeply. In the short story Cathedral By Raymond Carver, the narrator has an attitude of being selfish, and jealous through the story. The narrator’s wife invites a blind man, Robert, to come stay in their house for a short time while the man visits family members of his own wife who recently passed. The narrator is not enthusiastic because blind people make the narrator uncomfortable, mainly because the narrator has no real experience with the blind. In addition, to his uneasiness with the blind the narrator is uncomfortable with the relationship his wife and the blind man have. The wife and Robert, the blind man, have maintained a close

Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer and Nobel Prize Winner. In her article “What is Real”, Alice Munro discusses the difficulty many of her readers seem to have in telling fact from fiction as she writes about her own fictional works. Her readers, she recounts, often ask her if she writes about real people, or real events, apparently unable to comprehend “the difference between autobiography and fiction” (Munro). However, by the end of her article on the subject, “What Is Real?” Munro admits that the imagination is one she herself often blurs. “Yes,” she writes, “I use bits of what is real, in the sense of being really there and really happening, in the world, as most people see it, and I transform it into something […] in my story” (Munro). In other words, Munro sees her work as a kind of fiction because she uses both reality and fact. This makes her work honest but yet not real at the

For everyday pictures, you can mix things up by telling a story with your photography. Instead of snapping pictures as they happen with no influence on the shots, this style of photography involves planning and executing your vision. The storytelling is completely up to you.

In the end, such works that indeed provided versions of reality that documented life being lived, live on not necessarily because of their artistic or literary merit but because of their rendering of actuality during a specific time and place. They have become, in effect, cultural documents (Connery).

Throughout an individual’s childhood, it is evident that they model what they see and hear. Children are taught lessons at a young age that pertain to their family’s values, heritage, and what is important to them. Although one is taught at a young age it is not guaranteed that those lessons will stick with them throughout life. Individuals often encounter a period of change within themselves. They begin to develop their own identity from what they experience and encounter in life. Within this development, it is common for one to stray away from what has been taught to them because they want to grow and see life for themselves. This period of change permits an individual to either gain an understanding or experience confusion. In Alice Walker’s short story, “Everyday Use,” readers are shown two characters who have different views on heritage. The plot of the story displays how the characters either accept or deny where they come from which leads to a searching of one’s identity. With the use of characterization, and Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, this paper will showcase the character’s ideas on heritage which lead to the central event and realizations that are made within the story.

Rulfo’s stories achieve exceptional symmetry between form and content, compelling the reader to be absorbed by their inexhaustible depth that is created by the desolation that marks intricate human landscapes. These stories are truly artistic representations, for the word choices never seem so casual, and the powerful images weave the scenes into an organic, effortless whole. Rulfo infuses the reader with a sense of inevitability reflected in his fated word choices that seal the characters in their inescapable destinies, which transitively traps the reader into Rulfo’s fictional world where loneliness, violence, and despondency are the focal points of society.

In this short story Katherine Brush uses literary devices to not only give the reader an image of the scenario, but also to give them a deeper feel and understanding of the current situation. Brush uses imagery, alliteration, and atmosphere to give her story a deeper meaning. She uses imagery to place an image in the readers mind, to allow them to form the detailed scenario in their heads as they read. For example, Brush writes "...in the form of a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning in the center.

Gregory Crewdson’s photographs are rich in details that evoke different emotions, narratives, and engage the audience’s interest. He carefully chooses different lighting, camera angles, and other elements to help develop a visual and mental story to the audience. Through his photographs, he digs into a commonplace and challenges the normal reality to bring forth things that are surreal, haunting, or desirous. His photographs are very unique and creative, and they capture the sense of alienation and unreality. The photographs are very abstract and they tell a strong story visually but an even stronger story mentally. In flash fiction, the writer uses sensory details to engage the reader’s interest and help convey a visual image. The writer has

      The writing self is the window through which people can view another person's life.  It gives a perspective that is sometimes revolutionary to the reader.  Since people remember and form memories through the act of association, the relations that are recognized when reading a

Ever since the introduction of humans on Earth, homo sapiens have dominated this planet. However, despite human superiority, there have been many times in history where people continue to perceive different incidents and occurrences in one way, however, in reality, these occurrences have a much deeper meaning. In the novel, Clay Jannon goes beyond the misunderstanding of life and travels deep into the real world to find the meaning of life. Robin Sloan, the author of the story, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hours Bookstore, devoted his novel to explain the misconceptions of appearances versus the real life. Moreover, in the story the author gives a number of examples related to this topic; however, there are three main precedents that occurred in the story.

The methods and insights of the humanities are extremely integral to this project because without the writing workshop it would be impossible to collect these stories. Some of the students might not have shared their lived experiences before and some might not have written their experiences in dramatic form or learned how to perform theatrically. The writing workshop is the heart of The Invisible Lives Project. Grammar and style are critical to writing along with language, translation, and poetics. All of our end products, which are performance, videography, and an anthology, are centered in the world of the humanities. When in practice, they are concerned with forms of human expression and social action specific to historical, cultural, and

While today history is taught through textbooks in classrooms across the world, history, before written language even existed, was passed down orally and conveyed by stories told around a fire; the histories and cultures of entire peoples were passed down by word of mouth. Even once written language came to be, stories remained the primary source of recounting history and culture to future generations. Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller revolves around this idea of storytelling as a means to shape and form culture as Llosa describes an outsider who takes on the role of the main orator of a tribe in Peru. Llosa both alternates between insider and outsider narratives in The Storyteller and presents an unreliable narrator in a position of power

Within a situation based around a real landscape there may be many conflicting opinions perspectives, which can be emphasized further by the specific media of production used. An example of this in filmic media is how Giosue and, to and extent, the audience views the concentration camp in Life is Beautiful. The happy atmosphere Guido creates in juxtaposition to the place around him is captured through film and creates the two significantly different views of the camp. The journey to the Interior uses textual media and describes in detail a hill landscape, which Atwood links back to her subconscious. ‘The hills which the eyes make flat as walls’. The description of the real hills as a landscape creates the two different perceptions of the story, one as a visual representation that the reader can picture, and the other as a metaphor for Atwood’s mind, which connect the readers with her on a profound level. The media of production helps to portray certain attitudes towards landscapes, connecting the audience emotionally with the story and

Imagery is a one literary tool used by the author in the novel. The author uses short sentences to bring out the prominent element of motion pictures which was also prominent at the time. Fact and fiction are continually intermixed in the novel with the use of prose. The prose form of writing which is popular in journalism, however, seems to contradict his style of writing which uses both history and fiction which is ironical. Repetition is also a common element in the novel to give an allure of the recurring element of history. The author also uses a vivid description of the characters in the novel allowing us into the

The way in which one views the world and forms an opinion about it is entirely based on what they have experience throughout their lives. This idea was presented in a very long winded essay by John Berger. While keeping this idea in the back of my mind I analyze image D form the Orphan Black Stills that we were provided without any prior knowledge of what story this TV show was supposed to tell. After viewing the episode in which the still I had chosen to decipher my views on what occurred changed a surprising amount simply from the context now provided. With context to frame the still it shows how even a seemingly innocent image can be very different than how it is first presented; even when viewed in hundreds of different locations simultaneously. This potentially challenges John Berger belief that the way one sees something is based primarily on a set context highlighted by one’s life experiences; but instead one’s life experiences highlight what they see with the context helps them form their interpretation.