In “Everything That Rises Must Convey” by Flannery O’Connor, Flannery choses to use two characters who have extremely dissimilar views on the New South. By doing this, the author conveys the conflict that existed between the “Old” South and the “New” South, many adjusted easily to the new sets of regulations while others acted as if the “Old” South was still in play. “Everything That Rises Must Convey” was written in 1961, just a year after the Civil Rights Movement. The civil rights movement was a popular movement in attempt to secure African Americans’ equal access and opportunities for basic privileges and rights (Davis). Although African Americans and Caucasians became integrated, allowing for equal access to education, to be socially integrated, and the right to vote, tension existed between those who wanted the “Old” South ways to remain and those who accepted the progressive ideologies of racial equality.
Two important characters are introduced in the story: there is Julian and Julian's mother. Julian is a recent college graduate who is living with his mother. He has learned to accept African Americans, although he never managed to become friends with any blacks he spoke to a few on the bus. Unlike his mother; Julian's mother is still stuck in the Old Southern ways that even …show more content…
That was your black double” (596). The black woman's reaction when money given to her son from Julian’s mom symbolizes that blacks are no longer patronized by the whites, they no longer need to live up to the whites expectations. The fact that they both are wearing the same hat on the same bus symbolizes how integration has made them equal. Although these woman are both of different races, one is not better than the other they are both
Two important characters are introduced in the story: there is Julian and Julian's mother. Julian is a recent college graduate who is living with his mother. He has learned to accept African Americans, although he never managed to become friends with any blacks he spoke to a few on the bus. Unlike his mother; Julian's mother is still stuck in the Old Southern ways that even …show more content…
That was your black double” (596). The black woman's reaction when money given to her son from Julian’s mom symbolizes that blacks are no longer patronized by the whites, they no longer need to live up to the whites expectations. The fact that they both are wearing the same hat on the same bus symbolizes how integration has made them equal. Although these woman are both of different races, one is not better than the other they are both