characters.? Everyone makes mistakes, but at the end, we always remember the lesson we learned. However, sometimes we have to realize how life changing the choices we make can be. Also another thing we do is we shouldn’t judge a person’s inability to do something. Being blind, deaf or disabled does not mean we cannot do normal things like others. Both of the characters for change in these stories are similar: the two main characters view them negatively, they are unexpected intruders into the main characters' every day routines, and they represent a way out from the closed world of the main characters.
Sammy, a young man, working as a cashier in a department store learns his lesson little to late. Who lets his desires get a little too far ahead of him, which leads him to a wrong decision in his life? He is a just like another immature teenager boy who is attracted to beautiful girls. Sammy has his own unrealistic ideas and fantasies. In the story Sammy wants to be seen as the hero in front of the three girls he meets at his work. He shows his admiring traits through his continuous compliments for the girl he is attracted to.
“Cathedral” on the other hand is about a husband’s experience having a blind man has a visitor. The blind man is his wife’s old friend. This man has lived his life with the same routine for many years with his wife and only his wife. His inability to open up and his tendency to be non-communicative leads his wife to have friends.
The author considers on salvation are expressed clearly through a man who learns to see with his heart rather than a judging and jealous eye. Experiencing the company of a blind man allows him to perceive the world through other senses.
One can see that the two causes of change in the main characters are alike. They are unforeseen, out of the ordinary, and enlightening for Sammy and the husband. These characters' lives are now eternally different because of the incursion of the unexpected. The epiphany reached by the boy and the man in these stories give us hope and shows us that life's naturalness can be a blessing in disguise.
Sammy, a young man, working as a cashier in a department store learns his lesson little to late. Who lets his desires get a little too far ahead of him, which leads him to a wrong decision in his life? He is a just like another immature teenager boy who is attracted to beautiful girls. Sammy has his own unrealistic ideas and fantasies. In the story Sammy wants to be seen as the hero in front of the three girls he meets at his work. He shows his admiring traits through his continuous compliments for the girl he is attracted to.
“Cathedral” on the other hand is about a husband’s experience having a blind man has a visitor. The blind man is his wife’s old friend. This man has lived his life with the same routine for many years with his wife and only his wife. His inability to open up and his tendency to be non-communicative leads his wife to have friends.
The author considers on salvation are expressed clearly through a man who learns to see with his heart rather than a judging and jealous eye. Experiencing the company of a blind man allows him to perceive the world through other senses.
One can see that the two causes of change in the main characters are alike. They are unforeseen, out of the ordinary, and enlightening for Sammy and the husband. These characters' lives are now eternally different because of the incursion of the unexpected. The epiphany reached by the boy and the man in these stories give us hope and shows us that life's naturalness can be a blessing in disguise.