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    “The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.” This quote from a British preacher Charles Spurgeon accurately con-veys Flannery O’Connor’s works that are considered mere dramatizations of her stated religious views. O’Connor’s stories such as “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Revelation” have au-thoritative narrators who analyze corrupt characters’ theological errors. She often focuses on characters’ grotesque path toward redemption

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    The theme of “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor is of religion and racism. The main character Mrs. Turpin is found in a small waiting room with an assembly of strangers in which she immediately begins to classify in her mind. As a religious woman Mrs. Turpin is spiritually blind to how hiding behind her faith has made her unware of her own egotism. Mary Grace a young woman in the waiting room who is full of so much malice that it threatened to erupt‚ indeed did all over Mrs. Turpin as a book was thrown

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    understand O’Connor means to be in conflict with one’s self. Critics have praised her work and even contradicted her statements about her own work. She is known for using grotesque violence and death in her stories. In one of her letters to a friend she claimed she used this technique as a way to attain the reader’s attention. Not because the quality of her writing wasn’t worthy of their attention‚ but because she wanted to get a message across. She wanted people to realize the grip of corruptness

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    The short story “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor conveys the story of two random groups of people in a doctor’s waiting room. The main character‚ Mrs. Turpin‚ is a very religious and self-opinionated woman who passes judgment upon African-Americans‚ poor people‚ and other people of her community she believes are beneath her‚ economically and morally. The theme of the story is “do not judge a book by its cover.” The appearance of a person does not always depict the person inside. What a person looks

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    Mary Flannery O’Connor lived a long‚ adventurous‚ and quiet life. She had many sufferings throughout her life‚ such as when her father passed away of lupus when she was a young woman and when she was diagnosed with lupus‚ herself. Throughout all of her sufferings‚ she stayed strong in her faith. She was an influential author when she was alive and still continues to change the lives of others. Born in 1925‚ O’Connor lived a long‚ adventurous‚ and quiet life. She had many sufferings throughout her

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    than not a title will directly relate to the story in some way or another. In most cases a title would be a form of telling the reader what to expect from the story before even reading it. In the case of “"Everything that rises must converge"” by Flannery O’Connor the title does directly relate to the story. In order to understand the relation between both title and story‚ it would be beneficial to break the title down first. Then explain how the relation and how it was based mostly on the plot of

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    The story A Good Man is Hard to Find raises a point on violence and grace‚ which is emphasized in these three points: the grandmother calls the Misfit her son‚ where he represents her grace‚ also the story raises a argument that there is no pleasure on earth‚ and finally the grandmother accepts her grace but sometimes grace doesn’t respond nicely. The relationship between the Misfit and the grandmother is rather complicated because it is not exactly clear what he is to her. The grandmother mentions

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    Judgement is Everywhere “Revelation” was written by Flannery O’Connor. Flannery O’Connor preferred to use a southern gothic style of writing. Southern gothic style partakes in the southern portion of the United States. In the time period this short story takes place in‚ people judge based on social class and skin color. The main character of this story is a large southern woman named Mrs. Turnip who has taken her husband‚ Claud Turnip‚ to the doctor’s office. The moment Mrs. Turnip enter the

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    A Good Man Is Hard To Find “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is written by Flannery OConnor. This cynical short story takes a dive into this family’s lives while they are on a road trip to Florida. During this supposed to be long-lasting vacation‚ the reader gains a grasp of each character and their personalities. As this ‘not so close’ family travels through Georgia‚ the grandmother and children convinced the father‚ Bailey‚ with their whining‚ to go off course to some house the grandmother remembers

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    May 2010 O’Connor Assignment Flannery O’Connor was born in Georgia and lived most of her life there. Flannery went to Georgia State and she has been writing since childhood. She has been writing stories and worked for newspapers. These stories landed her a place in university of Iowa to do her masters. At a young age of 21 she published her first story which got much recognition and she received awards for her work. This of Corse means that good work never goes unnoticed‚ and so she was

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