Compare And Contrast This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix Arizona

“Essay One”
Compare /Contrast and describe the changes, if any, that occur with Victor as a result of this encounter with Thomas (“This is what it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”) and with the narrator of Carver’s “Cathedral and “Robert—the blind man.” When discussing “Cathedral,” please don’t forget to talk about the narrator’s wife, as she is crucial to the story. Consider: How does one character teach the other, and what does one learn from the other? How storytelling/art forms important in each work? How do disabilities (real or metaphorical), loss of identity, and alienation figure into each story? Marshal quotes from texts as necessary.

Eating, drinking, sleeping is part of any daily life. But sometime it doesn’t mean to

Victor, a reservation Indian, needs to go to collect the body of his father in Phoenix, Arizona. He was unemployed and with no money to make that trip. The reservation tribal council only could afford to give him only one hundred bucks, not enough for a round trip. He found Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who offers his saving with on the condition that he accompany Victor to Phoenix. Thomas has always been a storyteller that no one wants to listen. Nobody talk to Thomas because he says the same stories over and over again. Victor decides to take Thomas offer because there was no other

I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything.
“It’s really something,” I said.
In both stories the main characters were disengaged. In “Cathedral” The husband was disengaging with his wife he mention he found himself thinking what a “pitiful live” the blind man’s lived, he says:
Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one. A woman who could go on day after day and never receive the smallest compliment from her beloved. A woman whose husband could never read an expression on her face, be it misery or something better. Someone who could wear makeup or not.
Metaphorically speaking he was blind. He was describing his wife situation. She was living with him for years under those conditions.

In “This Is What it Means to say Phoenix, Arizona” Victor was disengage from the reservation, with no identity, or not sense of who is he.

Both characters were able to change the way they perceive their environment. They received a lesson from two disable person. In “Cathedral” The husband learned to see with the help of Robert the blind Mind. In “This Is What it means to say Phoenix, Arizona” Victor learns the importance of felling identified with your community and