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His style of writing was so unique that even students today, like me, are still studying his great work. One of Carvers most glorious work is “Cathedral” which is the art piece I will be analyzing. “Cathedral” at first portrays a very unpleasant vibe; it included a very racist, close-minded, and unloving husband. However, the reason this story fascinated me was mostly because of the meaningful twist at the very end. “Cathedral” had many elements to it that were distinctive much like Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The handsomest Droned Man in the World.” Marquez is a Colombian author. He has published some great novels and short stories, his career and writing style was so amazing that a documentary about his life was made. “The handsomest Drowned …show more content…

Both Carver and Marquez used religious diction, characters, and symbolism, to reveal the two themes of blindness from within caused by the lack of perspective and compassion, as well as the concept of grabbing onto nothing and making it into something powerful without questioning reality.
Carver used religious diction in the dialogue between the blind man and the narrator. Towards the end of the story the blind man deliberately asks the narrator “if you are in any way religious” following with the narrator’s reply “I guess I don’t believe in it. In anything. Sometimes it's hard. You know what I’m saying.” the blind man reassures him by replying with “sure I do” (Carver 10). This conversation was the first shot Carver took at revealing the religious undertone of the story. The religious diction that Craver implemented into this story was a key element for revealing the theme. Marquez also included some religious diction that helped bring alive the theme of the story. The village people mixed up the man for a whale to start with, stating that "they thought it was a whale" (Marquez,1). This demonstrates that he was effortlessly mistaken for a creature that

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