Beliefs in Life
Flannery O’Connor reflects her beliefs in short stories relating to tragedies and the situations she has gone through in her life. She writes about religious themes in which is a big part of each and one of her stories and emphasizes her faith in the main characters in her novels to express the importance of religion. Her stories/novels are often violent and represent death, they establish her thoughts and qualities of being divine. They are based on sin, redemption, death which makes the readers awaken and figure out that there is a God, a God in which we all don't believe in and it’s hard to believe in something in which we can’t or won’t ever see but there is faith and with faith in God, he can help us all. The characters …show more content…
In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," eyes indicate a character's way of thinking. The grandmother’s eyes are always so bright, we see further more of her than when she speaks.. In “Good Country People,” eyes are used to reveal that the people whom Mrs. Hopewell believes to be good people are actually not good they are the opposite. In front of her they make themselves seem as if they never did anything bad and were actually as the story was called “Good Country People”. In the story “Wise Blood” Hazel Motes gets complimented a lot because of his eyes. “She found herself squinting instead at his eyes, trying almost to look into them”, his eyes have some type of power since then Lily Sabbath Hawks says, "I like his eyes. They don't look like they see what he's looking at, but they keep on looking." He's so focused on things that don’t matter and he barely notices most of what's going on around him. Eyes are important in many of O'Connor's stories and sometimes are meant to be violent in her stories. The next theme mentioned a lot is “Grace”. In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," The Grandmother and The Misfit both play cruel roles in this story and none deserve to receive grace from God but in fact they do. The grandmother at the end of the story tells the Misfit to pray so God can save him from all the bad stuff he’s done and all the sins he’s committed, he has killed all of her family members and at the end The Misfit kills her but before he kills her the grandmother then calls The misfit her “son”. After he has killed her the Misfit has reached some level of Grace as well and then he ends the story by saying, "It's no real pleasure in life." He had said since the beginning that would always be being cruel to people. In "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," Tom Shiftlet has a chance to achieve Grace by living a good life, but when he decides to approach the two ladies he sees which are The old lady which is
Flannery O’Connor reflects her beliefs in short stories relating to tragedies and the situations she has gone through in her life. She writes about religious themes in which is a big part of each and one of her stories and emphasizes her faith in the main characters in her novels to express the importance of religion. Her stories/novels are often violent and represent death, they establish her thoughts and qualities of being divine. They are based on sin, redemption, death which makes the readers awaken and figure out that there is a God, a God in which we all don't believe in and it’s hard to believe in something in which we can’t or won’t ever see but there is faith and with faith in God, he can help us all. The characters …show more content…
In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," eyes indicate a character's way of thinking. The grandmother’s eyes are always so bright, we see further more of her than when she speaks.. In “Good Country People,” eyes are used to reveal that the people whom Mrs. Hopewell believes to be good people are actually not good they are the opposite. In front of her they make themselves seem as if they never did anything bad and were actually as the story was called “Good Country People”. In the story “Wise Blood” Hazel Motes gets complimented a lot because of his eyes. “She found herself squinting instead at his eyes, trying almost to look into them”, his eyes have some type of power since then Lily Sabbath Hawks says, "I like his eyes. They don't look like they see what he's looking at, but they keep on looking." He's so focused on things that don’t matter and he barely notices most of what's going on around him. Eyes are important in many of O'Connor's stories and sometimes are meant to be violent in her stories. The next theme mentioned a lot is “Grace”. In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," The Grandmother and The Misfit both play cruel roles in this story and none deserve to receive grace from God but in fact they do. The grandmother at the end of the story tells the Misfit to pray so God can save him from all the bad stuff he’s done and all the sins he’s committed, he has killed all of her family members and at the end The Misfit kills her but before he kills her the grandmother then calls The misfit her “son”. After he has killed her the Misfit has reached some level of Grace as well and then he ends the story by saying, "It's no real pleasure in life." He had said since the beginning that would always be being cruel to people. In "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," Tom Shiftlet has a chance to achieve Grace by living a good life, but when he decides to approach the two ladies he sees which are The old lady which is