Blind deconvolution

The theme is the man finding his inner self through the blind man. For example; the blind man and the Narrator were going to draw a Cathedral together, and the blind man asks the man to close his eyes, and then the blind man put his hand on top of his hand and began to draw. It was not like nothing else in his life and he enjoyed the experience and that he could relate to the blind man (Craver, 1981, p. 32) The plot begins when a blind man comes to visit his wife they had not seen each other

The society questions why it is so challenging to communicate with foreigners. "The Country of the Blind" is a short story first published in 1904 by H.G. Wells. He is well known for his science fiction novels. This short story is focusing on sight and blindness and brings up the theme of prejudice versus learning. In the novel we follow a traveller, who ends up in an unfamiliar strange place, which set him in learning trail, figuring out who he really is. How does the writer illustrate the difficulties

pitfalls (Bady, 2016). Blindness in a figurative sense can be seen as a split between ignorance and concealment. Literarily, it can be seen in the following phrases—Blind ignorance (lacking knowledge), blind stupor (lacking awareness), blind prejudice (lacking a critical or questioning attitude), blind taste test (tasting without looking), blind presentation (lacking preparation or information) (Paterson, 2014). Blindness not only means the lack of vision but also the lack of intellectual perception. In

cathedrals which brought them closer to their God. Similarly, people place so much importance to the physical eyesight and tend to think they can hardly live without it. Robert, a blind man, is invited to the narrator’s home and the narrator is shown troubled by Roberts’s disability. Later on, the narrator is amazed to see the blind smoking despite having even thought of helping him with his drink earlier on (Carver 516- 524). The latter brought to attention that as much as natural looking is essential

Raymond Carver had his wife’s blind friend, Robert, join them for a few days, he should’ve been more understanding and empathetic with Robert’s blindness instead of just avoiding it or brushing it off as if it’s not there. Carver did very well in changing his ways and learning to accept and understand Robert. Carver also did a good job of differentiating the acts of seeing something and really understanding something or someone. At first, he disliked Robert because he was blind. Carver even pondered over

his house and wife, and he looks at Robert. The narrator is not blind and therefore assumes that he is superior to Robert. Robert’s blindness, the narrator believes, makes him unable to have any kind of normal life. The narrator is certain that the ability to see is everything and puts no effort into seeing anything beyond the surface. With news of a guest coming, the narrator is immediately put off. Furthermore, knowing the man is blind instantly puts an image in his head of what kind of person he

narrator. Later in the night, as they are relaxing in the living room, the television begins to talk about cathedrals. Not surprisingly, the blind man has no clue what a cathedral is or what it looks like and asks for the narrator to describe it. Because cathedrals are very complex, this is a difficult task and the two resort to drawing together to inform the blind man. After Robert places his hand on top of the narrators, they begin. As they are drawing, Robert asks the narrator to close his eyes, he

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

tells of a visit that a blind man called Robert took to the narrator’s home. Jealousy from the narrator’s wife’s companionship with Robert and the narrator’s prejudice causes him to dislike Robert. However, at the end of the visit, the narrator and Robert create a drawing of a cathedral together using each other as guidance. In this short story, “Cathedral,”

Cathedral, Bub speaks of Robert, the blind man very disrespectfully. Firstly, as Bub recalls to the reader the moment before Robert arrives, he speaks in very short sentences. The short sentences indicates how unpleased Bub is with the blind man visiting. Bub shows his disrespect towards Robert by telling the story and referring to Robert as, the blind man. Bub is telling a story of the past, therefore he is aware of the blind mans name yet, he chooses to call him, blind man. Another reason for Bubs disrespect