When complaining and not appreciating what you have, life must suck but take the time to realize family is always there and some wants you to see the past how they lived it. In “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” Flanney O’Connor wrote this story that was a simple read and quick to understand. Mrs. Chestny, mother of Julian, is prejudice and close minded in her own way from being born in the early 1900s in the south with a grandfather that had a farm that she used to go to a lot. Now it’s the 1950’s. She believes that the black people should rise but “ on their own side of the fence. ”Throughout the story, Julian was depressed, irritated, and rude to his mother for “being adjuststable” until an incident happened when Mrs. Chestny offered
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As he watched his mother fall to the ground, with emotions of a grudge from past, he emphasized that her old ways of life and “old manners are obsolete and your graciousness is not worth a damn.” He then catches his mother staring with a look he hasn’t seen before from her, as like he was absolute. He, and also we, realized that the hit from the purse triggered a problem in her. As he sees his mother die, we the audience and Julian, realize that in the world, his mother “live in a new world and face a few realities for a change” and “it won’t kill you” was actually killing her and that he wasn’t being adjustable to others life views. We realize that everything good has to go at some point. That some of us might be living in a simple life but we should appreciate it and take the time to enjoy what we have, and help our family. They might they put us through a lot and that they know life isn’t simple, but they enjoy what they went through to help their children succeed, especially putting their children through …show more content…
Chestny and Julian, and Mrs. Chestny was stunned by her presents on how the woman had the same hat and some other significance about the situation also stunned Julian too. Here, the narrator explains that the situation when Julian realizes the woman coming into and sitting on the bus looking like Mrs. Chestny second half with the same hat next to Julian and her son sitting next to his mother. “Julian saw that it was because she and the woman had, in a sense, swapped sons. Though his mother would not realize the symbolic significance of this, she would feel it. His amusement shows plainly on his face.” Although the same hat that the black woman is wearing stuns Mrs. Chestny, Julian sees they had swapped places, we can see that the personality/ attitudes stayed the same because he resembles the anger of the black woman while his mother resembles the free spirited, happy child on the bus. Overall, normally when people wearing the clothes, they end up not liking each other, but here Mrs. Chestny perseveres and pays attention to the kid while Julian thought it was funny, yet doesn’t forget about
As he watched his mother fall to the ground, with emotions of a grudge from past, he emphasized that her old ways of life and “old manners are obsolete and your graciousness is not worth a damn.” He then catches his mother staring with a look he hasn’t seen before from her, as like he was absolute. He, and also we, realized that the hit from the purse triggered a problem in her. As he sees his mother die, we the audience and Julian, realize that in the world, his mother “live in a new world and face a few realities for a change” and “it won’t kill you” was actually killing her and that he wasn’t being adjustable to others life views. We realize that everything good has to go at some point. That some of us might be living in a simple life but we should appreciate it and take the time to enjoy what we have, and help our family. They might they put us through a lot and that they know life isn’t simple, but they enjoy what they went through to help their children succeed, especially putting their children through …show more content…
Chestny and Julian, and Mrs. Chestny was stunned by her presents on how the woman had the same hat and some other significance about the situation also stunned Julian too. Here, the narrator explains that the situation when Julian realizes the woman coming into and sitting on the bus looking like Mrs. Chestny second half with the same hat next to Julian and her son sitting next to his mother. “Julian saw that it was because she and the woman had, in a sense, swapped sons. Though his mother would not realize the symbolic significance of this, she would feel it. His amusement shows plainly on his face.” Although the same hat that the black woman is wearing stuns Mrs. Chestny, Julian sees they had swapped places, we can see that the personality/ attitudes stayed the same because he resembles the anger of the black woman while his mother resembles the free spirited, happy child on the bus. Overall, normally when people wearing the clothes, they end up not liking each other, but here Mrs. Chestny perseveres and pays attention to the kid while Julian thought it was funny, yet doesn’t forget about