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Adaptation Movie and Cathedral by Robert Carver _Ali Mohsin
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Outline
      Cathedral is a novel which explores the concept of loneliness and isolation. Adaptation is a movie which also explores the concept of drugs, emotional disturbances and loneliness. This paper looks at the novel and movie and studies the themes which are found in both of them.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title page …………………………………………………………………….….…1
Outline …………………………………………………………………….……….2
Introduction.………………..………………………………………………………4
Cathedral…………………………………………………………………………....4
Adaptation……………………………………………..............................................5
Common themes…………………………………………………………………….6
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………..7
References …………………………………………………………………………..8

Adaptation Movie and Cathedral by Robert Carver
Introduction
      Raymond Carver’s story Cathedral portrays a story which is about issues faced in modern society. It narrates about perturbed and agitated people. The theme of the novel is about isolation and loneliness. Both the narrator and wife cannot communicate with each other. The narrator is also resentful towards the blind man, Robert who is the third character of the novel. Another theme is that of personal growth, as the narrator in the end of the novel communicates with the blind man. He realizes that by doing so makes him feel very different and alive in many ways. Adaptation is a movie by Spike Jonze which also addresses the concept of isolation and loneliness. Charlie Kaufman is a screen writer who has a tendency to take every aspect of his own life into a negative and pessimistic mindset and rationalization. Charlie is attempting to write a screen play which will be simple and pure, a movie about flowers. However nothing seems to be working for Charlie as he is suffering from writer’s block.
Cathedral
      In the novel Cathedral, the blind man sees the TV show as a way to...