Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O’Connor presents the audience with two characters who have completely different mind sets, yet come to an unfortunate cross road in their life, in the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. The audience is presented with the main characters of the grandmother and The Misfit. The grandmother shows strict Christian values throughout the whole story and is brought up to seem as though she is the victim in the end. On the other hand The Misfit shows values of being an existential…

get medicine for him. Silas in “The Death of a Hired Man” By: Robert Frost. Has been an unfaithful worker and takes his old job back again. not to work but for a place to die in peace. Tom Shiftlet in “ The Life You Save May Be Your Own” By Flannery O’connor Leaves his wife at a diner to be left for dead. And Emily in “ A Rose For Emily” By: William Falkner. ends up sleeping with a corpse and comes close to drinking poison to kill herself. In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” By: Flanhery O…

Morality, the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior (Webster), a concept that is exploited throughout a short story entitled “A good man is hard to find” written by Flannery O’connor. The story introduces two distinct characters, a grandmother and the misfit to question readers of their true knowledge of just behaviors. When one thinks of a grandmother they imagine a woman in her late years, one who is nice and welcoming to all, one who bakes…

if it’s something you want to deal with. One day it could be sunny, the next day it could be raining or snowing. Can weather really be a contributing and powerful factor in our lives? In the short story “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor it seems as if it is. Tom, who is the main character in this short story, was somehow ability to change the weather based on if his actions where positive or negative. With that being said, the actions that Tom chooses to take has the…

sacrifices correspondingly. In order to understand why one’s goal of personal freedom is one thing, several things must be taken into account. Depicted in “A Wall of Fire Rising,”by Edwidge Danticat and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Flannery O’Connor, the readers have been provided with all of the answers when asked the question, “what does…

Poetry begs to be spoken; it begs to be heard. The sharing of poetry strengthens connections and brings people together. It builds community. Writing captures all of my attention, like nothing else is able to. I write down whatever makes me feel alive and hope that those words will have the same effect on others. I want my poetry to be a kaleidoscope of memories and emotions that reflects the deepest parts of my own humanity. As if the words were my blood and the paper my second skin, my writing…

Nihilist, violence and more. These are just a hand few of the topics that the western gothic author Flannery O’Connor discusses in both her novels and short stories. From people stealing legs to the murder of a family O’ Connor’s writing come to show you the true wickedness that come from people even if they state to believe in nothing or in the Christian faith. Her stories are filled with allusions to mostly explain the idea of redemption and what it means to be redeemed. It’s not only allusion…

Have you ever felt like the more you try to persuade someone of something, the more they disagree with you? Distortion could be considered the last, frustrated attempt to get someone to understand your point of view. Like Flannery O'Connor said, "I am pleased to make a good case for distortion because I am coming to believe that it is the only way to make people see." In the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the author uses distortion to exaggerate some of humanity’s problems so that we…

In a time of deep unrest during Gerard Manley Hopkins’ life, a point in which he both loved, yet combated with God, he produced the poem “Carrion Comfort”. The title of said poem was not given by Hopkins, but rather by his friend Robert Bridges (Gerard Manley Hopkins). Nevertheless, the title stands as an overall outlook for the poem to come, for it provides a sense of conflicting imagery, as well as a sense of darkness. “Carrion” as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary is, “the decaying…

to us, and that is why it is so prevalent in fiction. Not only can we control something so elusive, but we can use it strategically to create tales that shock and captivate an audience. This strategic use of irony in story telling can be seen in Flannery O’Conner’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” and Guy Maupassant’s “The Necklace” when the authors build up an ironic climax with subtle irony occurring throughout their stories. In O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” the irony…