Contrasting Responsibility in Carvers Fever and Baldwins Sonnys B

What allows a human being to constantly face-up to the responsibilities of spirit? What makes a mformer(a) or father continue to clothe, feed, and pick up their child from school? What makes a soulfulness wake up every morning to go to a job he or she hates, survey home, and begin the whole process the following morning? Is it responsibility that makes a person do what they have to do, or rather is it fearing the consequence? Truthfully, this would guess on the situation. Parents would most likely fulfill their responsibility towards their child or children because of love but a person who hates his or her job in all probability continues to do it fearing the consequence of unemployment. In the end, one realizes that despite all the responsibilities a person has, the choice to execute it is ultimately left to the individual.Two brusque stories that examine the theme of responsibility are Sonnys Blues by mob Baldwin and Fever by Raymond Carver. In Sonnys Blues, the narrators el derly mother tells him to never allow anything bad to happen to his younger pal, Sonny. Although Sonnys injurious decisions result in both brothers distancing themselves from each other, the older brother finds it within himself to love his brother and do everything he can do to take charge of him. In Fever, the other myopic story, the narrators wife, Eileen, abandons her life as a wife and mother of two children to pursue a career as an artist with another man. This sudden abandonment of all maternal responsibilities without reservation characterizes her as a free-flowing artiste that pursues her desires without regarding the impact it might have on others. Both of these short stories show how people approach the issue of familial responsibility.An init... ... what were supposed to deject out of this life... one realizes that she has put her ambitions and desires above her family and paid no attentiveness to her familial responsibility.Abraham Lincoln once said, You cannot e scape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today (www.quotationspage.com). Ironically, one actually can. The narrator in Sonnys Blues chose to care for Sonny and accept his responsibility as an older brother. On the other hand, Eileen in Fever chose a different path by leave her family and pursuing her own ambitions. Conclusively, one realizes that despite all the responsibilities a person has, the element of choice determines what happens.Works CitedCarver, Raymond. Fever The Harper Anthology of Fiction Ed. wooded Barnet. New York HarperCollins, 1991.Baldwin, James. Sonnys Blues in Vintage Baldwin. New York Vintage, 2004.