Take one of our stories and choose one part to rewrite. A Cat in the Rain: I like the way it’s. Sally replied, “I get so tired from it.” “I get so tired looking like one.” As she sat on the dressing desk, I noticed her playing with her gorgeous brunette wedge hair. I smiled as I thought about how fortunate I was to have her in mine. Sally was the Central Boston High Homecoming Queen back home. Since 6th grade, Sally and Rev. Sally and Rev moved to our area in 1908, together with their father Rev. Rex William is from South Carolina. Joanne Beatrice William became her mother and moved to Hollywood. Sally was very different from the other shy girls. Sally was a keen sports enthusiast. I can recall being bullied by my neighbors for too closely relating to Sally. Those were careless, restless days.
Sally was a person who captivated me and I grew to love her more with each passing year. We were often seen together at all major social events in our area. We were “Ideal matches” for each other. Sally is the best friend I could have. Sally and me were married in the same year that we graduated from Boston Central High School. This is the perfect life. Sally seemed eager to see our lives filled by little angels. Five years had passed since we married, and our garden was still “unblossomed.” Doctors back home tried all possible diagnoses but to no avail. We were then given the advice of a gynaecologist to return to Italy to consult Doctor Ivera Cupiccina. He is a well-respected medicinal researcher in Italy.
We had high expectations when we arrived in Italy. The Great World War had caused great turmoil in Europe. Shortly after arriving in Italy, we rented an apartment in the Bay. We made arrangements quickly to see Doctor Ivera cupiccina. Sally speaks fluent Italian because her mother is Italian. Some of the language was also understandable by me. Sally was fine to conceive when Doctor Ivera cupiccina’s lab tests came back negative. It meant only one. I was powerless. For weeks, I was in denial about this fact. Sally was my love, but I couldn’t give Sally the happiness she had always desired. I wished Sally would never have met me. I wished her happiness. I wished for her to have a child and live in a happy home. “You look quite darn good,” I responded. Realizing that I was lost in my memory lane for a while, I realized. Sally put the mirror on the dressing table and walked towards the windows.
The story cat in a rainstorm is a fascinating peek into the life of a couple. You can turn a story around and see it entirely differently depending on how it is told. The story was originally told in third person. However, I changed the story to the 1st-person narrator. The plot of the story remains unchanged even though the story has been rewritten from “American Husband’s” perspective. You can have completely different perspectives on a story if you look at it from a unique angle. You can retell the story using a different angle, as two people might not think in the exact same way.
We have all heard stories in class that can be considered initiation stories. Write a brief essay about how the initiation story works.
Cathedral is one story that could be considered an initiation story. This narrative is in the first person and tells of friendship between a husband and his wife. The narrator, a young man in his 20s, is nave. It is his description of the blind guy that makes him nave. After his wife invites the blind man to his house, he feels uneasy about his feelings toward the man with the disability. He was influenced by extreme stereotypes in his views on blind people. “My concept of blindness was based on movies. The blind move slowly in movies and don’t laugh… I didn’t look forward to a blind man in my home (Pp. 184. ()”) This is a sign of his insensitivity towards accepting and understanding persons with disabilities.
The story’s narrator begins wondering how his wife became acquainted with the blind man. His wife found an ad for a job that would allow him to help the blind man do routine tasks.
The job was temporary. She kept in touch with her blind husband through voice recordings and continued to communicate with him after she finished her summer job. After she had made friends with the blind man, the husband met his wife. This makes the husband somewhat jealous of her blind friend. He is requested by the wife to make her husband feel at home with the blind man. “If you had friends, any friends, and they came to visit me, I’d make him comfortable (Pp. 186. )”
While he continues to speak to his wife, the narrator seems to be able to adapt to a blind man quite well after their meeting. “Did it go well?” (Pp. The husband said, “Did you have a good train ride?” Contrary to his earlier beliefs about blind people, he appears to be open to him and makes him feel welcome. Cross-introspection is a key part of the Journey (meeting). The husband does not feel uncomfortable having a blind person in his home. The blind man is actually a good friend to the wife. “Robert (Blindman), was an average blind jack of all trades. The husband seemed to know more about the blind man than the wife. The blind man responds to the husband’s request for a drink by saying “Bub”, which is a Scotchman. (Pp.188). Blind man refers the husband to as “Bub” which is shorthand to bubba (less intellectual being) – it seems as though Blind man already knows his husband’s personality. The husband and blind man experience a transformative moment while watching a late-night TV documentary about cathedrals. Blind man asks his husband to describe the cathedral to him. This is supposedly to make sure he passes. After several failed attempts, the husband finally gives up. The husband is unsure how to transfer this knowledge from a person who sees to another person who does not see. The blind man then tells his husband that he should draw the cathedral with both his eyes open and closed. When the husband realizes that his eyes were closed, he draws better and has blind man’s help, the transformation happens. “His fingers rode me as my hand moved across the paper. It was unlike anything else I had ever experienced (Pp.194). “The moment of truth, or the epiphany, occurs when a seeing man realizes that blind people can still see the world.
