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In the story, My Father’s Life, by Raymond Carver I learned Raymond Jr. shares many traits with his father. They both are alcoholics who can’t seem to settle anywhere they go. They both also share the name Raymond; Yet I don’t think Raymond Jr. likes it. Raymond Jr. also had a rocky relationship with his father. His father was always too involved with the struggles of life or too drunk to actually build a relationship with Raymond Jr. Despite all that is against him I believe Raymond Jr. wanted to connect with his father anyway he could. I assumed Raymond Jr. did not like sharing his name with his father when he said “I hate the ‘junior’ part”. (81) Raymond Jr. also preferred to be called by the name Frog, which was the name his father
called him by when he was younger. Eventually his father started calling him Junior just like the rest of his family. When Raymond Jr. turned around thirteen or fourteen he made announcement that he would no longer respond to that name. With all the information we have I would assume Raymond Jr. did not want to be anything like his father. I believe he is striving to be his own person. Raymond Jr. father was an alcoholic even before he met his wife. Raymond Jr.’s mother actually met Raymond outside of a tavern. It was so bad that Raymond Jr.’s mother would try to pour some of her husband’s liquor down the drain and refill it with water. (83) As the story goes on we learn that Raymond Jr. is also facing some drinking problems of his own. He says “at a time when I found myself, like my dad, having trouble with alcohol.” (86) Later in the story we see Raymond Jr. trying to connect with his father. It was difficult for his as he was trying to raise his own family and earn a living. Raymond Jr. did eventually manage to tell his father he wanted to become a writer. Raymond Jr. said “The poem was a way of trying to connect up with him.” Even though it is a little too late he tried connecting with him. Even though that connection was never made he misses him a lot. As he said in his final paragraphs “I began to weep for the first time since receiving the news.” I understand where the author is coming from in this short story. I also have a father who is addicted to things I’d rather not mention. He is never around; and when he is there he only stays for about 20 minutes then he’s gone again. I don’t know who he really is. I have tried to connect with him many times, but that connection was never made. Now it’s too late as my father also passed away. All that lives on is memories. Overall we can all only do so much. We can put so much effort in to something but if we don’t get that same effort in return there’s nothing we can do. Raymond Jr. tried to make that connection with his father, but his father was to distracted by life struggles and alcohol to give him the same effort. We must all try to not let our struggles control our life and remember to make time for our loved ones.
father will ask how he is doing occasionally. In the end his friendship does not change. But it will
In the memoir “My Father Was a Writer” Andre Dubus III is trying to explain who his father had become after he got into his writing career. He was in a family of four, they were born on a marine base. They hardly ever got to see their father, when they did Andre noticed that he did not smile much or enjoy his life really. When his father's father died, he retired and he came home. Once he got home he not stopped laughed consistently, he has never been more happy. Then the parties started to happen, every night the house filled with people and cigarette smoke. They still had these parties despite the fact they were completely broke and had to eat canned meat and blocks of government cheese. They would even go to parties at the neighbors house
Everybody Loves Raymond is a family sit com television show about a married father of 3 children residing across the street of his parent’s house, therefore, his family are constantly interrupted with the kids, his brother, and parents. Season 1 episode 1 starts off with Raymond and his wife struggling to balance life with kids, work, and family. Since his wife is a stay at home mother of infant twins and a 3 year old girl, Raymond allow his wife to take a day off with her girlfriends and to enjoy herself without the supervision of his parents inviting themselves without permission or an advance notice. As a result, Raymond’s failure trying to satisfy his family by lying soon gets caught. The scene allows him the perfect
In Raymond Carver's "Cathedral," the husband's view of blind men is changed when he encounters his wife's long time friend, Robert. His narrow minded views and prejudice thoughts of one stereotype are altered by a single experience he has with Robert. The husband is changed when he thinks he personally sees the blind man's world. Somehow, the blind man breaks through all of the husband's jealousy, incompetence for discernment, and prejudgments in a single moment of understanding.
In 1826, Herman’s dad Alan wrote of him being slow and of being quite backwards in his thinking. A year later, Alan was tragically diagnosed with scarlet fever, leaving him almost permanently blind. Not being able to work, the family’s business collapsed. Seeking reinforcement they decided to move back to Albany, New York where Alan and his wife originally met. Herman then enrolled in Albany Academy, but just before another tragedy struck the family.
The third and final part of the essay deals mostly with Baldwin’s father’s funeral. The day of his father’s funeral was Baldwin’s 19th birthday and he spent most of the day drinking with a friend. At the funeral, his father was eulogized as a thoughtful, patient, and forbearing Christian. Baldwin says this is a complete misrepresentation of the embittered and angry man they all knew. Nonetheless, he concludes, given the burden a poor black man with nine children had to bear, such a eulogy was somehow just. His father may have been cruel and distant, but he also had to contend with raising children in a world he knew hated them, and the hatred he felt in turn for this world had consumed and troubled him in ways unknown to anyone but him.
In the story, My Father’s Life, by Raymond Carver I learned Raymond shares many traits with his father. They are both alcoholics who can’t seem to settle anywhere they go. They even share the same name; Yet I don’t think Raymond likes it. Raymond had a pretty rocky relationship with his father. Raymond tried to make that connection with his father, but his father was to distracted by life struggles and alcohol to give him the same effort in return. Despite all that is against him I believe Raymond wanted to connect with his father anyway he could.
The moment in time when I realized that I was never going to have a Father like the rest of my friends changed the course of my life. As a young boy it was difficult coming home after a baseball game where each of my friends dads were there to cheer them on. I was left with the Father that was incapable of working or even getting himself out of bed. My fathers illness showed me to never take life for granted because one day your life can be normal and another day you're best days have already past.
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Raymond Carver uses strategic dialogue and point of view to articulate themes in his short stories. Another tactic Carver uses in his writing is analyzing basic human skills such as the ability to define love through intimate relations between characters that reveal deeper meaning. In the short stories “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” and “Cathedral,” he investigates relationships and how the characters develop the true meaning of love. While reading these two short stories the reader is able to comprehend the similarities that draw Carver’s works together. Through these stories the reader is also able to understand his outlook on love and human kinship. Carver uses certain strategies and techniques that allow him to bring a parallel between his different stories, but there are also definite things that set each story apart.
Next week is the five year anniversary of my dads passing. He went to be with the Lord on June 14th. Seven days shy of his birthday. [Dad did everything in seven’s, it was his favorite number.] When this popped up in my Facebook Memories this morning, I started thinking about the many different examples my parents sat for me growing up. Especially the ones my father sat. I spent far more time with my mom, but the time I spent with dad was always special. Dad really did teach by example. I can remember shopping as a family. Kids want to touch everything. Dad always told me to put my hands in my pockets. If I didn’t have pockets, I was to put my arms behind my back and hold my wrist. He made sure he did whatever it was I had to do. He also told
The people who I look up to is my mom and my dad. Ever since I was born, they helped me with my problem that I have. Every day after school my mom would help me with my homework, because most of the time I don’t understand my assignment, that she knew how to do some math work, because I would forget how to answer my math, while my dad is at work. On his days off me and my dad would sometimes go fishing in the river or a lake, because he would like to spend time with. Other times we would go hunting for deer or bird, because it would be boring if we didn’t do
Raymond Carver’s The Bath is a revised version of his early work of A Small, Good Thing. In his two pieces of the short story, the length of the story significantly varied as The Bath is a lot shorter. Moreover, his former work has more detailed emotional expressions while The Bath lacks communications and leaves to the reader a suspenseful ending. The story begins in a third person view with a mother has her son’s birthday cake made to order at a bakery. Then his son is hit by a car when crossing the road. The mother and father come to hospital and exchange words from the doctor. Finally, the story ends with an unfinished ending which doesn’t show any sign of boy’s fate but a strange phone call that says the son’s name. There are several things
As I grew older, I became more mature and sophisticated. I became more knowledgeable, formed my own opinions and political views, and gained new insight into my life. I became more sociable and saw people and things in a new light. I also lose my naivety and saw who my dad truly was for the first time and that saddened me.
My father passed away in 1991, two weeks before Christmas. I was 25 at the time but until then I had not grown up. I was still an ignorant youth that only cared about finding the next party. My role model was now gone, forcing me to reevaluate the direction my life was heading. I needed to reexamine some of the lessons he taught me through the years.