Everything That Rises Must Converge Analysis

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It is quite ironic when someone is blind by his or her own mind, and act in opposite of what he or she believe. This ironic situation is presented in Flannery O Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge” as the two main characters, Julian Chestny and his mother, exhibit hypocritical judgements about African Americans in an era of the Civil Rights movement. The story revolves around the self-delusional white Americans and their undesirable incorporation of integration in the South. Julian, a middle-aged writer, pictures himself as a liberal and intellectual college graduate who is repulsive of his mother’s traditional perspective of segregation. It is only through the narrator that Julian and his mother’s ironic views are exploited. O’Connor renders a comical short story of prejudice through the implement of numerous literary devices through the storyteller.
The narrator reveals the complicated relationship between Julian and his mother through vivid description. Julian considers his mother an embarrassment as she boldly pronounces
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Although each character claim one belief, they are obligated to the other as well only given time for it to reveal itself. The importance of O’Connor’s narrative style is for the reader to assemble the oeuvre of the story. Her point of view allows for the audience deeply draw from the actions and descriptions from Julian’s point of view while not partaking as Julian himself. Rather revealing his blindness in the fact that he was hypocritical as his mother was the whole story. The ending shows the importance of the convergence through both of the characters through a grim ending. Socially, the integration of races and the rise of prejudice will converge at any given moment. It is only through the narrator that Julian and his mother’s ironic views are exploited in “Everything That Rises Must

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