Part I: a
Fiction is an outline of any story written or told by word of mouth that deals, to a certain extent or in full with information or proceedings that are not based on facts, but fairly, unreal that is, made up by the writer or narrator of the story. Even though invented stories portray a major branch fictional work, it could also refer to dramatic or musical work. Fiction is the opposite of non fiction, which deals completely with stories based on facts or rather assumed to be factual. In the Joyce Carol Oates story version, some of the details were left out cause the objective of any journalist or writer is not to produce evidence, but to look at the messy areas of heartbreaking reality (Oates 76).
It’s not the fine points that are vital so much as how the information will add up to the bigger story: that is why it is called literature. In the narrative’s heading ‘where are you going, where have you been,’ the present is noticeably omitted, yet Connie appears to be involved with this mentality and survival conditions; it is the only element of human state and human knowledge that she is aware of.
The story, in spite of its use of past tense, make known to us where Connie is all the time in the moment with no one to look upon for what got her there or where the moment will lead (Oates 102). The past is unclear for her and the future has no meaning to her. The only thing that matters to Connie is here and now. Despite the fact that, from the story being caught up in a timeless present has its risk and shocking outcome. As a result, the title then turns out to be a kind of urgent caution.
Part II: b
The story illustrates an assortment of stresses and sacrifices of the motherliness and presents a wide range of examples of parenthood (Morrison 94). The reason Sula’s mother made the statement she loved her daughter though she didn’t like her was because she really went through a lot to make ends meet so as to raise her only daughter Sula that includes being a prostitute to earn a living (Morrison 139).
Eva is the grandmother Sula and Hannah is Sula’s mother, Eva’s oldest daughter. After the loss of Hannah’s husband Rekus, Hannah went back to stay with her mother Eva and by then her daughter was three years old. Hannah had numerous short relationships with men who took advantage of her (Morrison 148). Many women disliked her. However, they did not have hatred on her, and hence it really affected their relationship with her daughter Sula.
Part III: c
The narrator is known for his stories having dialogue, which reasonably impersonates speech patterns and their unexpected ending. The story is told by a man whose spouse is old acquaintances with a blind man; the tale gives us an idea about the narrator’s disgust for the blind man who comes to visit him and his companion for a number of days.
Every now and then the story gives an impression that the man was resentful of the blind man for being so close to his wife and sometimes it shows that the husband is sickened by the blindness of the man. At long last they become close friends in a way during a discussion they shared on how a cathedral looks like.
According to (Carver 76) the narrator has a unique style of writing, powerful, discreet approach that has lots of critics also he is dirty realism, to some extent cathedral ends on a more cheerful note.
Works Cited
Oates, Joyce, Carol. Where are you going, where have you been?: women writers: text and context. New York: showalterPublisherRutgers university press, 1994. Print
Morrison, Toni. Sula: Vintage International. London: Vintage International, 2004. Print
Carver, Raymond. Cathedral: Vintage Classics. London: Random House, 2009. Print