Reading,_Thinking_and_Writing_Clearly_About_Literature

While we all have little things to write about, we should always take into consideration the clarity of our works. I honestly believe that is what Mr. Carver took into account here when revising these stories. Simply putting words down on paper will never be enough. We must ensure what we are saying expresses the proper content and the proper direction of our stories. At the beginning of this class it was stated, "In my view, there are no poor writers or bad writers; there are only beginning writers and skilled writers. " (Professor Williams) I totally agree with this statement. There is no a proper or improper why to write a short story, and if there were most writers would try and violate to be creative and innovative. The things these two stories shared where the same thing that made them different from one other. The author changed the clarity, the message and the imagining for every single readers entertainment. In terms of clarity, the first edition titled "Mine" which was featured in the book Furious Seasons. Mr. Carver was horrifically direct and straight to his point. But in terms doing this, once you read the third edition titled "Little Things", it is almost like he took some clarity away from the story. While you can still indentify that there is struggle and turmoil, it makes you continuing curious of what is really accruing. It is almost as if the first edition was never completed fully. With a little more description a reader could have stepped into the story. A reader could have live through the characters, feeling the great heartache. With a little more description of the first story could have lived right off the pages and into the readers hearts. In the third edition, the one I received the best, you just gain more understanding to what's happening. It almost as if the picture of the baby was of my own son. Next comparison is the message of these stories. Myself as a reader can clearly see the apex of violence in both stories. Both stories demonstrate the struggles of a family separation especially when a child is involved. Since the male is leaving the home it is only logical that the female would feel various amounts of emotion. But she chooses to display one over all the rest, anger. When rewriting these emotions Mr. Carver changes the female display simply by changing the spelling of the words of the original story. "Sonofabitch" was change to "Son of a bitch", which in terms slowed down the expression to put meaning behind it. Carver has often said when speaking of his frequent rewrites and revisions, this coexistence is possible because these are different stories. “They are all different stories, and they have to be judged differently,” he told the critic William Stull in 1987. "Distinguishing them, however, implies an obvious shift in focus." Lastly is the imaging. It is my opinion that it is a writers duty to project a image and everything that he or she writes. If you do not your words are empty and works are then meaningless to anyone that reads them. Mr. Carver not only corrected the grammar of this piece but also brought to light more imaging to complete this story. While you can still capture the despair of these writings in the second one the reader has a chance to exhale and take it all in. And I commend Mr. Carver for being what I would describe as a meaningful writer. In conclusion, the reasoning of why Mr. Carver is known as the reviser of short literature is still a mystery. Though something that is extremely clear is that any individual who readers these pieces can clearly see his growth as a writer. Through clarity, a message, and imagery he touches all of his readers to believe that even the darkest of days can happen to individuals in books. That things that go on in real life is not just happening to one family or one individual. Lastly, that a separation of a family can and will impact every person just in different ways.