Victoria Santiago
Mr. Werner
American Literary Experience- B Block
April 28, 2016
Flannery O’Connor
Abstract
This paper will analyze the influence that the South Atlantic, specifically Georgia has had on the writing of Flannery O’Connor. The majority of O’Connor’s writing was influenced not only by the geographic aspect of Georgia but the culture and customs and norms of the people that lived there. In theses categories religion plays a very big role, and as O’Connor being a catholic and being raised in the south, a lot of her short stories involve her religion and the southern culture of the South. In addition to the influence of religion and the culture of the south, the economic standing of the state and the history of the state impacted …show more content…
Georgia during the 1920’s to 1930’s
Flannery O’Connor was born 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. Georgia during the 1920’s was having a economic crisis. Beginning around 1929 Georgia had gone through the great depression on a downward spiral. The Depression hit the South harder than some areas and Georgia had already began a decline in the decade before. Georgia had adapted the New Deal late, but had pulled together to lay the foundation for it. However, that didn’t last very the long, the state had try to adapt too quickly and soon the effectiveness of a sporadic change was no longer there. It wasn’t until the beginning of World War II that the great depression in Georgia fully subsided …show more content…
Early on in her life she showed her literary talents for school publications. She won many school award for her stories and was very well known for them. After her father became ill O’Connor and her mother moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, her mother's birthplace, when she was twelve years old. As a teenager she faced a very hardship when she lost her father to systemic lupus erythematosus at the age of fifteen. She attended Peabody High School. After high school O’Connor attended Georgia State College for Women (GSCW) in the same town as her high school. At GSCW she received her A.B degree then went to enroll in what is now known as the University of Iowa for a masters degree in. While studying in the University of Iowa O’Connor had read and learned a great deal about writing. She had written her first story “The Geranium.” while attending the university and the short story was published in 1946. In 1947 she won the Rinehart-Iowa Fiction Award for her first novel “Wise Blood”, which was published shortly after in 1952. After spending a tremendous amount of years in Iowa and the influence of Iowa on her as a character. O’Connor decided to change her name to Mary O’Connor, her birth name, to Flannery O’Connor. After graduating from the University of Iowa O’Connor was persuaded to attend a Workshop at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs New York.This workshop would allow her to focus on her work. However, in the spring of 1949
Mr. Werner
American Literary Experience- B Block
April 28, 2016
Flannery O’Connor
Abstract
This paper will analyze the influence that the South Atlantic, specifically Georgia has had on the writing of Flannery O’Connor. The majority of O’Connor’s writing was influenced not only by the geographic aspect of Georgia but the culture and customs and norms of the people that lived there. In theses categories religion plays a very big role, and as O’Connor being a catholic and being raised in the south, a lot of her short stories involve her religion and the southern culture of the South. In addition to the influence of religion and the culture of the south, the economic standing of the state and the history of the state impacted …show more content…
Georgia during the 1920’s to 1930’s
Flannery O’Connor was born 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. Georgia during the 1920’s was having a economic crisis. Beginning around 1929 Georgia had gone through the great depression on a downward spiral. The Depression hit the South harder than some areas and Georgia had already began a decline in the decade before. Georgia had adapted the New Deal late, but had pulled together to lay the foundation for it. However, that didn’t last very the long, the state had try to adapt too quickly and soon the effectiveness of a sporadic change was no longer there. It wasn’t until the beginning of World War II that the great depression in Georgia fully subsided …show more content…
Early on in her life she showed her literary talents for school publications. She won many school award for her stories and was very well known for them. After her father became ill O’Connor and her mother moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, her mother's birthplace, when she was twelve years old. As a teenager she faced a very hardship when she lost her father to systemic lupus erythematosus at the age of fifteen. She attended Peabody High School. After high school O’Connor attended Georgia State College for Women (GSCW) in the same town as her high school. At GSCW she received her A.B degree then went to enroll in what is now known as the University of Iowa for a masters degree in. While studying in the University of Iowa O’Connor had read and learned a great deal about writing. She had written her first story “The Geranium.” while attending the university and the short story was published in 1946. In 1947 she won the Rinehart-Iowa Fiction Award for her first novel “Wise Blood”, which was published shortly after in 1952. After spending a tremendous amount of years in Iowa and the influence of Iowa on her as a character. O’Connor decided to change her name to Mary O’Connor, her birth name, to Flannery O’Connor. After graduating from the University of Iowa O’Connor was persuaded to attend a Workshop at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs New York.This workshop would allow her to focus on her work. However, in the spring of 1949