niedziela, 11 września 2016

Trochę angielskiego

Niedawno czytałam interesujące opowiadanie Raymonda Carver'a pt. "Cathedral". Szkoda, że tylko opowiadanie (podkreślam), bo książka byłaby świetna (krótkie wnioski po krótkiej lekturze). Pokusiłam się o interpretację w języku angielskim. Uprzedzam, analiza może być delikatnym spoilerem. :P


Nowadays people are in a rush and most of surrounding world is overlooked. We do not pay attention to simple things, for most of us is hard to see a beauty of nature, objects, architecture or people. In human being, we focus on current issues, aside from those which bring into our lives the most. Senses help us to see the world as it is, the loss of one of them interferes with our perception of the world. This loss makes you appreciate how important it is. The best example may be blindness, which affects Robert, one of the heros of the story titled Cathedral.

The narrator of this story is a man waiting with his wife visit her old friend- Robert, who is blind. His wife used to work ten years ago like a person who read for him. They became friends, who maintain contact with each other, exchanging confidences recorded on tape. Robert's wife- Beulah passed away, that's why narrators wife invited him to comfort him. The story does not know the names of the narrator and his wife. When a blind man comes to visit his old friend, her husband does not know how to behave. He never had to deal with a blind man. Hidden jealous of the friendship that is between the blind and the wife of the narrator, makes this visit awkward. She begins to be angry at her husband, that he behaves artificially. The atmosphere relaxes after the end of the meal. The narrator treats the blind man a spliff. He is trying cannabis first time, narrators wife join them.

For me the most important part of the story begins after the narrators wife falls asleep while being stoned. The blind man and the narrator are alone, watching a TV program about cathedrals. He is not a person who is interested in the beauty of the monuments, cathedrals or churches, but he is asked by a blind man to describe one of them. The blind man listens attentively, but gets an idea that drew with him how he imagines the cathedral. The narrator brings the paper and his hand held by a blind man begins to draw. This experience changes the narrator, he begins to think abstractly. He begins to see what previously did not matter to him. Closing his eyes he moves to his imagination and with emotions continues to draw the cathedral. At this point, the story ends, prompting the reader to reflect.
What made the narrator has changed its approach to things that were previously insignificant for him? In my opinion, it made the empathy he felt for the blind man. When a blind man showed him how important is a beauty that he could not see before, the narrator had catharsis. Emotions which he experienced while drawing opened his mind. When he lost his sight, he saw again as a valuable tool in the perception of the world it is. In my opinion, he made the reflection on the fate of a blind man. Previously he believed that the lack of vision makes the blind man is not able to receive the world like him. He noted, however, that in spite of blindness is doing much better than he did.


From this story you can draw a valuable lesson for us. We should appreciate the senses with which we are endowed, which are of great importance in receiving the world around us. We should also pay greater attention to the beauty that surrounds us, the beauty of which we were previously blind.

B.

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