The Life You Save May Be Your Own, By Flannery O Connor

Flannery O’Connor was a woman who was criticized by certain lifestyles such as, religion, death and men.All her books are illustrated to express her feeling towards reality and she turns it to fiction. O’Connor uses unknown characters when writing a book to create a mysterious theme that relates her background. O'Connor was a woman full of faith that transforms the minds to think like a Southern Catholic Romain. In spite of that, she began to write short novels that conflicted with the aspects in her life. The book collections are: “Wise blood”, “Good Country People”, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.” All things were considered from O’Connor English literature to where everyone was influenced.
In all her books she felt the freedom of writing the challenges that she faced which were alone, abandoned and death. Even though her background comes from a dark, sorrow, gothic and Catholic Church she makes the readers over think about the connection to her life. In the past, she had many struggle of her father's’ death and not having a mother. As her only father she was …show more content…
This story talk about a young girl whose leg has been shot off and had to be replace with a wooden leg. Later on the story ends up with a man that comes into town offering to talk about the word of God. who then, tricks the young girl to have an affair with him who wanted to show her that there is no true God. The message is a person who believe spiritually will end up broken inside because not many believe that there is savior. This concludes to the finish of fighting for a reality was that her father was been taken by an illness which got reflected back to her leading the same suffering as her father did so.The name of the book explain that good people might come around to say joyful words but instead, it ends up in the wrong hands and you have to suffer from being