Rough Draft posting

Matthew Bill

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Grasping the cold steel handle with tight firm grip ever so focus holding a nine mm. pistol to someone’s head because of the debt owed to you as they beg for mercy, and without hesitation, you pull the trigger. This is just another day of life of the character Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss in the critically acclaimed television show, “The Soprano’s.” His major ambitions, according to his perspective were that of any other human, to be successful. His definition of successful meant that people had to die to become the position of boss to run the best crew possible. His interaction among other people was a very powerful and demanding one. Destin to be the prodigy of his father, Tony’s whole life from when he was born was the lifestyle of organized crime. Up until the sixth season of “Soprano’s,” Tony’s lifestyle consisted of murder, money, and lust. It was until episode four of season six, when Tony awakened from his coma after the result of being shot from the interaction of his uncle did he realize the meaning of life. One of the hardest things in life to do is to change our way of living and perceiving life that determine our lifestyles. Usually the only time we change the way we are is when something horrific has happened in our life, such as an aunt or uncle dying of lung cancer cause from smoking, might change your choice in picking up that next cigarette. In the story, “Cathedral,” written by Raymond Carver, the main character experiences the same life changing out come due to the interaction of a blind staying in his house. The severities are different, but the principles are the same, between Tony and the main character of “Cathedral.” In the beginning the similarity of human interaction between Tony Soprano’s lifestyle and that of the main character in, “Cathedral,” are same until an event in their life’s change their way of viewing life.