a new perspective
... to get a mental picture of her. She agrees to his request and the blind man begins to run his hands and finger all over every part of her face. She never forgot that moment. That moment inspired her to write a poem about the incident. Another key example is toward the end of the story. The blind man displays yet another scene where he use his hands and fingers to create a visual picture of a cathedral. “The blind man felt around over the paper all over what I had drawn”. He also interpreted hand Movement to aid his visual picture of a cathedral in his head. “He found my hand, the hand with the pen. He closed his hand over my hand. Go ahead bud draw. To put yourself in one mans shoes is hard, especially a blind mans. At the beginning of the story, Bud expresses his stereotypical view towards the blind. “My idea of the blindness come from the movies, in the movies the blind man moves moves slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to”. Bud was very narrow minded, his opinion slowly started to fade away about the blind man. “I’ve never met or personally known anyone who was blind”. This blind man was late forties, a heavy set, balding man with stooped shoulders. He wore brown slacks, brown shoes, light brown t-shirt, a tie and a sports coat. He also had a full beard, but he didn’t use a cane and he didn’t wear dark glasses. I’d always thought that dark glasses would be a must for a blind man. He didn’t have a seeing eye dog”. His assumption of the blind was nothing similar to the movies. Bud was now doubtful of his opinions of blind people. The blind man, brodend Bud’s horizon. At the end of the story while Bud and the blind man drew a cathedral. The blind man told Bud to close his eyes while drawing Bud did so, and in return he felt a bit of blindness in him. He realized for a slight moment in time what it would feel like to be blind in that position. “My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that but I didn’t feel like I was inside anything. It’s really something”. Bud then realizes that being stereotypical and not wanting to be open minded gave him a positive out look of the blind man. Another struggle that was acknowledged in the story was. The miscommunication and sight between, the blind and the normal. Beulah the blinds man wife is a strong example of this. “They married, lived and worked together slept together and then the blind man had to burry her. All this without his ever having seen her what the god dammed women looked like, it w...