Best of the Week: Onions

I thought the best of the week was the symbolism Mr. Allen brought to our attention in Cathedral. Specifically, the scene where our narrator brought out the brown paper bag with onion skins on the bottom. I would have never analyzied it in any significant way until Mr.Allen mentioned it, which is why I particularily liked it. It not only fit the story and brought more understanding of the narrator's change to myself, but it reminded me of the importance of active reading for all stories. As I read Stone Boy, I was more attentive for this similar epiphany.

The figurative analysis on the onion peels were representative of the many layers our narrator has. He sheds some of the outer, harsher predispositions when he makes a connection on drawing and recreating the cathedral with the blind man. Its the turning point in the short story, as this moment when he gets the brown bag, is when he begins to understand.