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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
In Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," Mr. Shiftlet approaches the old woman and Lucynell. After a brief conversation, the following occurs. "I got," he said, tapping his...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The quote refers to the bargaining which goes on between Mrs. Crater and Mr. Shiftlet. In order to agree to marry Mrs. Crater's daughter Lucynell, Mr. Shiftlet wants the use of the car and money to...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Mr. Shiftlet discovers "a 1928 or '29" Ford automobile in the shed of Mrs. Crater's property. Mrs. Crater claims the car hasn't run in fifteen years but Mr. Shiftlet says he can get it running. He...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
One of the first things Mr. Shiftlet sees when he comes on Mrs. Crater's property is the "1928 or '29 Ford" automobile in a shed. Later, he tells Mrs. Crater he can fix the car and asks her for...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
While not explicitly saying so, Mrs. Crater promises her land, a "permanent place" with a "deep well," to Mr. Shiftlet if he will marry Lucynell. It's understood that if he marries the deaf girl he...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
On the surface, it seems as though Mrs. Crater is simply using her daughter to have a full time caretaker on her property. She is not shy about using Lucynell, who is deaf and dumb, to fulfill the...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Mr. Shiftlet is a drifter and his actions at the end, abandoning Lucynell and taking off on his own, are foreshadowed in the story. First, in his initial meeting with Mrs. Crater, he describes his...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Mr. Shiftlet exploits Mrs. Crater's overwhelming need to provide herself with a caretaker for her property and a husband for her deaf and dumb daughter Lucynell. One of the first things Mr....
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
In the opening paragraph of Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," the third person omniscient narrator notes that Mrs. Crater did not fear the one-armed "tramp" who...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
In the story, Mrs. Crater thinks that she does not need to be afraid of Mr. Shiftlet because he looks like a defenseless tramp. When Mr. Shiftlet approaches, Mrs. Crater is sitting on the porch...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
There is a redeeming feature in Mrs Crater's actions, yes. One could suggest that Mrs Crater's concern for Lucynell's care after she has died, for she is old, may be the one redeeming feature she...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
In most literature, storms and bad weather usually symbolise either some malevolent act or event or act as harbingers of doom. A storm provides the reader with a sense of foreboding. In this story,...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Lucynell is Mrs. Crater's daughter. She is deaf, dumb, and probably suffers from some intellectual impairment, too. Lucynell appears to be childlike in most ways, even though Mrs. Crater tells Mr....
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The story The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor is not overtly political, but like all of O'Connor's work engages deeply with moral and religious issues. Although O'Connor herself...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
One point of ambiguity in Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" concerns motive. Throughout the whole story, neither character really is the type of person they...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The story begins on a desolate farm in the middle of nowhere. It is a rural setting with a woman and her daughter sitting on a porch. From this opening, the tone feels quite relaxed, a vignette of...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
This story first appeared in a journal in 1953 and then was published in a collection of stories in 1955, so it was written sometime in the early 1950s. Historically speaking, this story presents a...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
After arriving at Mrs. Crater's, Shiftlet spots her old, rusted automobile and covets it. Critic Mark L. Elderstein writes that O'Connor is a modern satirist who perceives all people as grotesques...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
In the short story "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by Flannery O Connor we are given very little information about the young lady who lives alone with her aged mother. It is therefore very...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The old woman, Mrs Crater, is not afraid of Mr Shiftlet as he cuts a rather poor and solitary figure: She could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of....
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Imagery relating to God, Satan and especially Christ surfaces rather unexpectedly in a generally spare and matter-of-fact narrative. Lucynell Crater, the sweet and literally dumb girl is described...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
A theme of “The Life You Save Might Be Your Own” is focus on God versus material things. At the beginning of the story, Mr. Shiftlet is a Jesus-like figure. He is a tramp carpenter who passes...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Mrs. Crawford is only interested in material wealth, whereas Mr. Shiftlet is not interested in money. At the beginning of the story, the old woman and her daughter are sitting on the porch. Mrs....
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The decline of moral and religious order is evident in the situation of the characters. Mr Shiftlet is physically disabled while the girl, Lucynell is mentally retarded; yet there seems to be no...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Critics such as Tom Deignan and Mark Edelstein concur that Flannery O'Connor, in her works, satirizes contemporary man, who in his perversity, makes great efforts to escape his salvation. Desirous...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
One of the grotesques of O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," Tom T. Shiflet appears as a tramp who appreciates the beauty of nature; he carries carpenter's tools and moves his body so...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Mr. Shiftlet is a drifter. He is ragged and gaunt, and dresses like a tramp in once-nice clothes. Mr. Shiftlet is described as “a tramp and no one to be afraid of.” He stops by the Crawford...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The ironic thing about the characters is that Mr. Shiftlet is not at all interested in money or marriage until he stays with Mrs. Crawford for some time. Irony is when something happens that is not...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The name Shiftlet implies that he will shift, or that he is shifty. Each of these is true. Mr. Shiftlet’s name has a double meaning. On the one hand, it could mean that he is shifty and not to...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The cross foreshadows the ending, when Mr. Shiftlet will realize he lost faith. Foreshadowing is a hint the author makes in the story about what is going to happen in the future. When Mr. Shiftlet...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Flannery O'Connor's stories often deal with God and religion, and these components are present in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own;" the universal theme I find in this short story deals with...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Climax is the most exciting part in the story. For example if A antagonist got killed by a protagonist that would be the climax. Climax is the most dramatic part of the story or play.
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The purpose of a thesis statement is to tell your reader what your essay will be about. Before you write a thesis statement, decide what you want to prove by the end of the essay. If your thesis...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
In Flannery O'Connor's fiction, she depicts the South in Gothic terms: a place that it is illegitimate, doomed to moral decay, that is "Christ-haunted," where her characters are physically and...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Mr. Tom Shiftlet and Mrs. Crater are grotesque characters. Mr. Shiftlet's obsession with morality and Mrs. Crater's obsession with her daughter drive the story. Mr. Shiftlet and Mrs. Crater are...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
In Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," the key to one allegorical elements lies in the name of the male character, Mr. Shiflet, who could easily be the prototype for the...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Near the end of the story, Mr. Shiflet abandons Lucynell and gets in his car to travel to Mobile, Alabama. Along the way, he picks up a boy that he thinks is a hitchhiker. The boy doesn't have...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
O'Connor's religious vision deals with humankind's fall from grace. Her comedy shows her characters' blindness and inability to redeem themselves through nihilism and materialism. The title "The...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Like many of Flannery O'Connor's stories, this reflects her ideas about salvation and redemption. The title can apply equally to Shiftlet or Mrs. Crater, and can be seen as a warning or reminder to...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
There are many conflicts in this story: A money-hungry family looking for material gains versus their inability to see what they already have. The expression of fulfilment versus the constant want...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
O'Connor's description of Shiftlet's shape as a "crooked cross" connects him with Jesus, also a carpenter, and Mrs. Crater sees Shiftlet as a kind of savior for Lucynell. The "crooked" aspect of...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The irony is in the fact that Mr. Shiftlet, himself is a perfect example of the rottenness of the world. He is saying that he is afraid of people like himself. And the significance of this...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
it helps us understand the story better with pictures. sometimes people need alittle motivation for them to read. The human nature withc include free will and being aware of knowing right frowm...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
O'Connor often writes with religion as an underlying theme in her work. In "The Life you Save May Be Your Own", the theme of redemption is applicable to the character of Mr. Shiftlet....
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The story is rich in situational irony. Situational irony can be broadly defined as situations where the outcomes are incongruous to what is expected, or situations which involve contrasts and/or...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
A good question.Consider the first statement about the daughter: " The daughter could not see far in front of her and continued to play with her fingers."She can't see far ahead...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The end of the story is rich in irony. Young Lucynell has been abandoned by her husband, the odious Mr. Shiftlet, in a small town at diner called The Hot Spot. The two have just gotten married and...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The main theme in this story is the quest for meaning. This need to find out what life means is common to O'Connor's works. In this story, it shows up in Shiftlet's wandering. In moving around, he...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
O’Connor uses symbols and imagery to significant effect in this story. Some recurring images and symbols include Christ, nature, physical ailments, and the automobile. See the link below for an...