Flannery O Connor's Literary Analysis

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The beauty on human and nature by O’Connor and Qi (Mary) Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) is famous for her short stories. Her writing style coming from the grotesque, She believed that “should face all the truth down to the worst of it” (O’Connor, 1953). From her unique literary technique, such as irony, foreshadowing, she creates her great literary works. She likes using cold humor in the characters. One of her most famous stories are “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1953), and the short story “The life you save may be your own” (1955). Probably some people believe O’Connor is a Christian writer, who believe people has a freedom to decide right or wrong, and this shows in her stories.In her stories, she shows the misfits from the case of violence. …show more content…
“Unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic” (O’Connor, 1953). She did a fantastic job of creating a world where they are easy for anyone to go inside of the story’s environment. Both of the two stories showing good characterization and plot. In order to show what the character thinks, says and does, and give the very well order of events in both of the stories. She wants to tell the reader that oddity of human nature. For instance, when the grandmother facing death, all of her thoughts and actions like a simple person. This reminds the reader to think that how this situation will be, and not everyone can prepare for that moment, especially for death. O’Connor also mentions the function of violence in the characters to express the complicated human nature. She uses the violence in stories, because violence can push the characters to the reality that makes readers to ponder the different types of human nature. And she uses violence is in order to prepare the characters to receive his or her moment of beauty (Thomas, 1990). In her stories, the violence used the difficult situation that explicit displays what people are fundamentally, and that shows people are significantly than in the people’s normal daily lives. For instance, in “A good man is hard to find”, when criminal murders them, the grandmother still cannot believe the man will kill a lady. Furthermore, human nature also can be graceful. In this story, imaging many things taken by heaven. However, it makes the readers pondering of what can be taken by heaven, the characters in the violent situation displays those qualities least unnecessary in their nature, and the characters maybe will have to take those qualities into eternity with them. (Thomas,

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