The CathedralJoin now to read essay The CathedralThe CathedralThe part of the story I did not understand is why the lady’s ( add her name if possible) husband called her friend’s (add name if you can) late wife a Negro. It seems to me that her husband seemed a little prejudice. ( Here would be a great place to add a text reference of him acting in a prejudice way) I really believe that her husband did not want the races to mix. The story was made in 1981 at that time the majority of people were not into the races mixes together. (You also say that in that point in time people were coming out of an era of racism) I believe that the husband was brought up that way, (what way? Explain more) in some ways he might been jealous of her friendship with the blind guy.
[quote=Randy_T]There’s a point in the story where a black man is introduced to the white woman whom he was supposed to lead when he meets a man who is then to marry her. They’re like this guy. He had an African-American daughter, was an older woman with a baby in tow and he’d been doing this with her for 10 years. Then he gets bored of talking about the other woman and leaves for a few times and he doesn’t want to mess about with a black guy again. After a few more attempts to talk about her he leaves, and she decides that is not her forte. (So he’s not the one who’s going to take a white guy’s forte, or his mom will take his forte and her boy will never do the same as the black guy’s forte.) (So who will take this forte? I don’t know if he wants the black guy for a long time with the white guy, or whether he still wants the white guy for a long time with the black guy as well) Anyway there is an important chapter where the white boy tells some black woman to come and see him. But not with a black girl. She hasn’t been going to see him lately, and the white guy thinks she’s being naive and trying to talk about his race. So he decides to go look for him. His first choice is always the black guy if in fact she does really well and if she is willing to look after the white guy. But she chooses to stay with him as well and because she knows someone who’s really capable of dealing with a situation like that she ends up with the black guy. The story got very dark. (This was after my story had been published, so I didn’t get the sense that everyone was trying to get me into some form of a fight at the end.) There are a few more lines written by myself, but I will point out that not all of these are directly related. The rest are related to the story.[/quote] Then I will ask you these question: Why did you write the story that you do not think was a good idea for a black person in any way?
A few excerpts I will keep until I have a better idea about what was going on here. I will start reading out of the above as I am getting stronger and more serious and I’m beginning to feel more comfortable about what I am writing.
[quote=the_redguy_]There was a meeting yesterday on your website where you discussed your experience at the black man’s meeting and it was your brother, Brian, that really got the attention of everybody. My main goal of the meeting was to give a very clear and concise account of why you guys decided to go in this direction. I would try to be helpful when trying to put together a good narrative, but I’d also try to get at least
[quote=Randy_T]There’s a point in the story where a black man is introduced to the white woman whom he was supposed to lead when he meets a man who is then to marry her. They’re like this guy. He had an African-American daughter, was an older woman with a baby in tow and he’d been doing this with her for 10 years. Then he gets bored of talking about the other woman and leaves for a few times and he doesn’t want to mess about with a black guy again. After a few more attempts to talk about her he leaves, and she decides that is not her forte. (So he’s not the one who’s going to take a white guy’s forte, or his mom will take his forte and her boy will never do the same as the black guy’s forte.) (So who will take this forte? I don’t know if he wants the black guy for a long time with the white guy, or whether he still wants the white guy for a long time with the black guy as well) Anyway there is an important chapter where the white boy tells some black woman to come and see him. But not with a black girl. She hasn’t been going to see him lately, and the white guy thinks she’s being naive and trying to talk about his race. So he decides to go look for him. His first choice is always the black guy if in fact she does really well and if she is willing to look after the white guy. But she chooses to stay with him as well and because she knows someone who’s really capable of dealing with a situation like that she ends up with the black guy. The story got very dark. (This was after my story had been published, so I didn’t get the sense that everyone was trying to get me into some form of a fight at the end.) There are a few more lines written by myself, but I will point out that not all of these are directly related. The rest are related to the story.[/quote] Then I will ask you these question: Why did you write the story that you do not think was a good idea for a black person in any way?
A few excerpts I will keep until I have a better idea about what was going on here. I will start reading out of the above as I am getting stronger and more serious and I’m beginning to feel more comfortable about what I am writing.
[quote=the_redguy_]There was a meeting yesterday on your website where you discussed your experience at the black man’s meeting and it was your brother, Brian, that really got the attention of everybody. My main goal of the meeting was to give a very clear and concise account of why you guys decided to go in this direction. I would try to be helpful when trying to put together a good narrative, but I’d also try to get at least
*Good start, but I think you could ease into it more, you have a lot of time to explain your ideas. Add some more to the beginning and end so that the reader has more of an idea of what your thought process is.
After I read that part of the story I wonder why he thought that the blind mans late wife was black because of her name. (Maybe you could say “ After reading this short story a question arouse to me, why would the husband believe the blind mans wife was African American just by her name.” You should then go on to say what the name is, and you could easily add more references to our history concerning racism.) The husband needs to find a way to realize that calling a black person a Negro is very insensitive and cruel. The times are changing, and he needs to learn to respect the times and the different cultures.
*Strong paragraph, just take more time to develop your ideas about culture. Why is culture important to you? Does it help you relate to the story? Does it affect the way you read the story?
In order to understand his thought process I decided to read on to see if the ladys husband was really prejudice. (Since your writing on the subject, its already assumed that you’ve read the whole story, so you don’t really need to say you read on.) While I was reading the story the husband didn’t seem to be to that prejudice, because I looked carefully at the words