HERNANDEZBianca Hernandez Professor Laura Morris English 203 5 April 2015 Two Lives, Two Lifestyles People do not get to choose what kind of life they are born into such as poor or wealthy, but they do have the option of deciding on what they can do for themselves. Raymond Carver’s fiction “Cathedral”, Chenjerai Hove’s poem “You will Forget”, and Donella Meadow’s nonfiction “Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land” all come together to bring out two different perspectives of life and how people deal with certain circumstances. The way these authors all portray their view points are the fact that someone can be unfortunate in any way and make the most of it, or be a person that is too self involved with their normal luxurious life that they may take it for granted. There is one strong subject that helps tie these three pieces together, and that would be guilt. Though this word is usually associated with negativity, it is brought about in a different way. In all three works, the way the authors incorporate guilt make it easy to comprehend the difference between being rich and being poor, but just because a person has fortune does not mean they are fortunate. All three authors brought in guilt in a different way, and it basically all depended on how the reader interpreted the story. In “Cathedral” the author never really implements the word guilt, but it is clear that the husband is feeling it in his responses to the blind man. It is very detailed in how they show the comparisons between the husband and the1
