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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