Voice
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor is novel centered around the main character’s, Hazel Motes, struggle with religion and his quest to find himself. It is written from a narrative point of view and takes place in the fictional town in Tennessee called Taulkinham. The overall diction is very informal containing slang and dialect from the south; but the narrator’s voice characteristics like being very oppionated but yet unbiased provided a much need significance to the story. She provided important detail that give the reader a much better understanding of the story. At first the narrator is omniscient being that is able to expresses all the character thoughts. Then it switches up to a partially omniscient narrator that can only read Mrs. …show more content…
From this viewpoint, the author, Flannery O’Connor, can access and portray the emotions, thoughts, and ideas of any character. An example of this is when the author gives us insight into Enoch Emery’s mind. She said,” That morning Enoch Emery knew when he woke up that today the person he could show it to was going to come. He knew by his blood. He had wise blood like his daddy.”(75). This quote gives the reader information that he or she would otherwise be oblivious to like the fact that Enoch’s father had wise blood and that today’s signification is infinite because of a very important meeting between Haze and Enoch. Another example of the omniscient narrator expressing a character’s sentiment is when she said,” Haze had gone out in his car to think and he had decided that he would seduce Hawk’s child. He thought that when the blind preacher saw his daughter ruined, he would realize that he was in earnest when he said he preached The Church Without Christ.”(106). This shows the reader the premeditated plan that Haze has in order to convince the blind man. It also shows that Haze has no interest in the daughter. The narrator is present during the breaks in between conversation where she provides information that gives the reader a better understanding of the …show more content…
Flood telling the story. This switch comes in chapter fourteen, where Mrs. Flood ponders her relationship with Motes. Flannery O’Connor talking about Motes and Mrs. Flood renting money dispute said,” He offered to pay her extra to let him keep his room because he knew his way in and out, and she decided to let him stay, at least until she found out how she was being cheated.”(217-218). She expresses Mrs. Flood’s feeling of distrust in Mr. Motes and show us an outsider perspective on the mysterious blind man. It also forces the reader to have a sense of anxiety by telling the rest of the story through limited knowledge. Another example of the partially omniscient point of view is when O’Connor said ,”He had begun to cough during the night – a hard hollow cough that sounded as if he were making it up as he went along. She was certain he was only trying to drive her off by letting her think he had a catching disease.”(184).The narrator shows Mrs. Flood distrust in Motes even though she doesn’t really know him. It also show that Mrs. Flood does care about Haze. After this switch, the narrator still knows everything that is going on, the only change is that the narrator does not directly tell it to the reader. Instead, the reader must infer some details about anything that is not directly mention by the
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor is novel centered around the main character’s, Hazel Motes, struggle with religion and his quest to find himself. It is written from a narrative point of view and takes place in the fictional town in Tennessee called Taulkinham. The overall diction is very informal containing slang and dialect from the south; but the narrator’s voice characteristics like being very oppionated but yet unbiased provided a much need significance to the story. She provided important detail that give the reader a much better understanding of the story. At first the narrator is omniscient being that is able to expresses all the character thoughts. Then it switches up to a partially omniscient narrator that can only read Mrs. …show more content…
From this viewpoint, the author, Flannery O’Connor, can access and portray the emotions, thoughts, and ideas of any character. An example of this is when the author gives us insight into Enoch Emery’s mind. She said,” That morning Enoch Emery knew when he woke up that today the person he could show it to was going to come. He knew by his blood. He had wise blood like his daddy.”(75). This quote gives the reader information that he or she would otherwise be oblivious to like the fact that Enoch’s father had wise blood and that today’s signification is infinite because of a very important meeting between Haze and Enoch. Another example of the omniscient narrator expressing a character’s sentiment is when she said,” Haze had gone out in his car to think and he had decided that he would seduce Hawk’s child. He thought that when the blind preacher saw his daughter ruined, he would realize that he was in earnest when he said he preached The Church Without Christ.”(106). This shows the reader the premeditated plan that Haze has in order to convince the blind man. It also shows that Haze has no interest in the daughter. The narrator is present during the breaks in between conversation where she provides information that gives the reader a better understanding of the …show more content…
Flood telling the story. This switch comes in chapter fourteen, where Mrs. Flood ponders her relationship with Motes. Flannery O’Connor talking about Motes and Mrs. Flood renting money dispute said,” He offered to pay her extra to let him keep his room because he knew his way in and out, and she decided to let him stay, at least until she found out how she was being cheated.”(217-218). She expresses Mrs. Flood’s feeling of distrust in Mr. Motes and show us an outsider perspective on the mysterious blind man. It also forces the reader to have a sense of anxiety by telling the rest of the story through limited knowledge. Another example of the partially omniscient point of view is when O’Connor said ,”He had begun to cough during the night – a hard hollow cough that sounded as if he were making it up as he went along. She was certain he was only trying to drive her off by letting her think he had a catching disease.”(184).The narrator shows Mrs. Flood distrust in Motes even though she doesn’t really know him. It also show that Mrs. Flood does care about Haze. After this switch, the narrator still knows everything that is going on, the only change is that the narrator does not directly tell it to the reader. Instead, the reader must infer some details about anything that is not directly mention by the