The Life You Save Maybe Your Own Character Analysis

There is not one person on this earth that is born the same. Everyone is different and unique in their own way. One thing that people battle with is discrimination. There are lots of people born with different kinds of disabilities. There are some cruel people in the world that treats people with a handicap differently. People ask all the time "Why can we all not be treated equal?" People still have a chance to change their life and do what is right. Yet there are some people that choose not too. In the story "The Life You Save Maybe Your Own," written by Flannery O'Connor, she uses insights, powerful moral messages, and a sense of tragic realities of modern life. She uses her writing to try to and point out spiritual feelings of the modern world. She highlights character with morals and intellectual capabilities. As the story begins, the old woman and her mentally handicapped daughter are sitting on the porch. Both of the women share the same name, which is Lucynell Crater. A wondering one-armed lonely man, named Tom Shiftlet approaches the woman and comments on how beautiful the sunset it. The elder Lucynell thinks that he is a tramp. When Tom interacts with the two women he feels he has a chance to achieve grace. He found that this household is the chance to work hard, watch a beautiful sunset, and live a queit life. As he is standing at the porch with his back toward the ladies as he faces the sunset. He …show more content…
As you can see in this story "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" at the begining the weather if very calm and sunny. Where at the end of the story the weather is very intense. The sky gets darker in color and a storm rises. The weather is compared to the choices you make in life. As long as you make the right choices your life will have a bright future. But if you choose to make the wrong choices your life will be very dark with