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Flannery O'Connor
In all—or almost all—of O'Connor's stories, one of her characters has a moment of revelation or illumination, when the grace of God breaks into this person's life and shows a glimpse of God's...
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Flannery O'Connor
As a literary device, foreshadowing is used by an author to give readers a hint of what is to happen later in the story. Foreshadowing creates suspense and makes the reader interested to know more....
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Flannery O'Connor
In this story, O'Connor, a Roman Catholic, conveys the message that rampant evil exists in the world, but that even the most flawed of us can find God's grace in the midst of it. Several literary...
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Flannery O'Connor
Born in 1925 in Savannah, Georgia, Mary Flannery O’Connor, who dropped the Mary from her name when she started to publish her work, was an only child. Her parents, Edward Flannery O’Connor and...
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Flannery O'Connor
A writer in the Southern Gothic style, Flannery O'Connor departs from other writers of this genre in several ways. Violence as a means of redemption While Gothic writers of the South often...
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Flannery O'Connor
In her analyses of O'Connor earlier short stories' use of spatiality, Louise Westling observes there is a "strong sense of place despite the absence of a geopolitical region", and characters are...
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Flannery O'Connor
In her "Christ-haunted" South, Flannery O'Connor encountered many faith-based Christians who, in their horror of sin, shielded themselves with sanctimony from their own faults. One character who...
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Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O’Connor was a deeply devout Roman Catholic and wrote from an obviously Christian (and particularly Catholic) perspective when she became an adult author. Yet she seems to have been a...
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Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor once wrote that she lived in the "Christ-haunted South." That is, O'Connor found herself in an area of evangelicals and their horror of sin which is part of the "landscape," while...
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Flannery O'Connor
The first part of the sentence it seems to have words missing; the first clause, "The factor of violence always presents in Flannery O'Connor's stories," clearly is missing its predicate. Perhaps,...
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Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Everything That Rises Must Converge” employs several different settings. Initially, for instance, we see Julian and his mother at home; then we see them...
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Flannery O'Connor
“Revelation,” like much of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, deals with the central Christian sin of pride. “Pride” in this sense means selfishness, self-centeredness, and a failure to...
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Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O’Connor uses references to pigs, hogs, and even warthogs in her story “Revelation” in various ways. Here are a number of ways in which such references are employed: The hogs are...
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Flannery O'Connor
Similarities and differences exist between many characters in Flannery O’Connor’s stories, including between Claude and Mrs. Turpin in “Revelation” and the grandmother and The Misfit in...
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Flannery O'Connor
Perhaps O’Connor’s own words can help you come up with a subtitle. In her letters, O’Connor wrote: “I am mighty tired of reading reviews that call “A Good Man” brutal and sarcastic....
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Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O’Connor often uses violence in her stories for a number of reasons. In the first place, O’Connor felt that most human beings, at least in the modern era, live complacent, comfortable,...
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Flannery O'Connor
Do you mean by the background, the background of the work itself or that of the writer himself and his way in writing,his works,his thoughts and techniques
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Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O’Connor believed she had to use violence to shock people into paying attention to her themes. She said in her letters that "if the Christian faith is present, readers will understand...
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Flannery O'Connor
In this story, a homely young woman with a wooden leg has changed her name from Joy to Hulga. She believes that she has nothing to be joyful about because she is a cripple, wears glasses and is...
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Flannery O'Connor
According to critics there were three strands to the reality of Flannery O'Connor: literature, the South, and Catholicism. And, it is the combination of these three strands which makes O'Connor...
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Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor was truly a genius and an extremely gifted writer. I think that there are two major things in her life that influenced her writing; her religion and her disease. She was a very...
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Flannery O'Connor
There is no specific date given as the setting for the story, though there are several clues that place it sometime between the holocaust and the actual date of its publication, 1965. Ms. Turpin...
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Flannery O'Connor
A great deal of O'Connor's characterization has, obviously, to do with her own approach to life and her search for meaning through the relatively difficult portions of her life. They are described...
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Flannery O'Connor
O'Connor uses nature as a buffer between what appears to be and what really is. As a Christian believer, O'Connor sees beyond nature (the sun, clouds, and sky) to see the supernatural (God,...
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Flannery O'Connor
The moment of grace is after Mrs. Turpin has complained to the black women about the girl at the doctor's office, then she goes down to the pigpen and shouts at the hogs. The problem is that she...
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Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor has been called many things religious: a Christian humanist, a sacramental writer, a fundamentalist, a Yahwist, a mean Christian, and my favorite, a "Roman Catholic not like a...
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Flannery O'Connor
In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," Hulga seems disgruntled about something as she is described as the large hulking Joy, who constant outrage had obliterated every expression from [Mrs....
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Flannery O'Connor
I, too, love O'Connor. Her work defies any kind of categorization. My favorite story to read and to teach is "Good Country People." It is both hilarious and shockingly bizarre. The scene...
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Flannery O'Connor
Reading O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a start for your understanding of how violence leads to salvation. You may also wish to read some criticisms of this story and others as well as...
