ENG 212
Response paper #18
2 October 2016
“Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O'Connor
In the story, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, is about Julian who recently graduated from college. His mother attends weight-loss class every week at the YMCA to reduce her high blood pressure. He takes his mother there every week because she refuses to take the bus by herself since integration. Julian proclaims that one day he will make money and imagines moving to a house in the country. His mother always tells him to keep on dreaming and to never give up. The story is told in third person point of view. You can tell that the narrator is very involved in this story with the characters. We get the sense of the characters