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    Reader Response One: Responding to “My Father’s Life‚” by Raymond Carver The last paragraph of this essay is my favorite by far‚ “…in their beautiful voices out of my childhood. Raymond.” The author of this story made it so tangible the dislike Raymond Jr. had for his birth name that it felt like a true revelation when the character finally embraced it. To hear his father’s name echo as his own name and to enjoy it leaves the reader with the same sense of happiness. The author of this essay

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    102-BB 24‚ April 2010 Love? Raymond Carver was a short story writer who was born in the Pacific Northwest. He was a textbook editor‚ lecturer and teacher while writing. His stories featured some of his trademarks of‚ alcohol‚ poverty‚ and people in real life situations. Carver was influenced to write about these trademarks through experiences he had lived and influences that were brought upon him‚ like alcoholism and divorce. Raymond Carver and his father were alcoholics and had both been divorced

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    fellow human beings. The reasons for this lust for power could be many‚ and some of them are mentioned in the short story “Why‚ honey?” The story “Why‚ honey?” is written by Raymond Carver in 1976. It’s a short story written in a letter format‚ which means it has a 1st person narrator. This format makes it possible for Mr. Carver to confuse the reader‚ because the reader is unsure of whom the letter is addressed to. All we know is that the letter is given the view point of a mother writing about her

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    Raymond Carver Raymond Carver is an award winning short story writer and poet. Carver’s famous writing career started with publishing a collection of poems. During his career as a writer he also published some famous short stories which helped define Carver as a minimalist writer. A minimalist writer makes “do with less‚ the literary equivalent of functionalist architecture. It offers an art of elimination‚ an effort one can associate with creating boundaries around private pain and avoiding public

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    Cathedral: A Lesson for the Ages Raymond Carvers short story‚ "Cathedral‚" portrays a story in which many in today ’s society can relate. We are introduced from the first sentence of the story to a man that seems to be perturbed and agitated. As readers‚ we are initially unsure to the reasoning ’s behind the man ’s discomfort. The man‚ who seems to be a direct portrayal of Raymond Carver himself‚ shows his ignorance by stereotyping a blind man by the name of Robert‚ who has come to stay with

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    The second play is the relationship of the narrator and the blind man. At first the narrator didn’t fully accept Robert relationship with his wife. The narrator changed his views about Robert at a later stage‚ when Robert visited them. Raymond Carver in his story described the narrator conflict with the blind man. The narrator views changed and transformed at a later stages. In the beginning the narrator feared the blind man‚ he was worried. Towards the end of the story‚ his views changed

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    The Elephant notes: One. Reading Questions 1.  What kind of metaphorical meaning do we get from the story’s title? An elephant bears heavy burdens‚ it suffers‚ and it never forgets. This speaks perhaps to the narrator’s martyr complex. 2.  What is the narrator’s dependence or addiction? He’s dependent on people being dependent on him. He even lets his brother “play” him‚ like “play him for a fool.” 3.  What pattern of the narrator’s pathological behavior becomes evident on page 476? He’s giving

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    Literary Criticism Minimalism by Raymond Carver English 210 P. Fishman Research Paper Literary Criticism on Minimalism by Raymond Carver Raymond Carver was a master of the short story during the mid nineteenth century due to his unique minimalistic style. Carver has his own artistic signature when it comes to writing‚ he tells his stories using

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    Hello‚ I selected The Bath by Raymond Carver. In the end‚ I find this story intriguing because the inconsistencies seem to be on purpose. “The Bath” is a bizarre story about a car hitting a boy on his birthday. The order of the story starts with his mother buying a birthday cake‚ then a car hits the boy unconscious for the rest of the story. Curiously‚ the name of the story originates from the father going home from the to take a bath‚ and after the mother goes. The story ends with the phone

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    Raymond Carver’s fingerprints Every writer has a different way of presenting his/her ideas to readers‚ and that’s what makes each of them so distinctive. A famous late 20th century American short story writer and poet‚ Raymond Carver‚ has often been described by critics as a minimalist. According to an Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary a minimalist is a person who uses very simple ideas in their work (“Minimalist”‚ 881). Raymond Carver wrote a lot of great short stories and poems. Most of his

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