The Violent Bear It Away (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1952
- Setting: Tennessee
- Principal Characters: Francis Marion Tarwater, George F. Rayber, Mason Tarwater, Bishop Rayber, Bernice Bishop Rayber, Buford Munson, T. Fawcett Meeks, Lucette Carmody
- Genres: Long fiction, Gothic fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Teenagers, South or Southerners, Religion, Alienation, Prophecy or prophets, Arson, Fanaticism, Baptism
- Locales: Tennessee
The Story:
Mason Tarwater, great-uncle of Francis Marion Tarwater, died at the breakfast table one morning. The old man had spent years training his nephew, with whom he lived in a backwoods spot called Powderhead, how to bury him properly. As young Francis Tarwater began to prepare for the burial, he recalled events from his life with Old Tarwater and the various reasons he did not want to follow in the old man’s footsteps. Young Tarwater recalled that the old man had kidnapped him from the home of his uncle, George F. Rayber, and provided a fundamentalist education quite...
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