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    Maida on the Work of O’Connor Jordan Hollowell English 103 Professor Kuzmenkov October 6‚ 2012 (2) The main idea of Maida’s article is to tie together and explain the common literary devices apparent in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories. There are four reoccurring devices in O’Connor’s work: first‚ the eyes‚ which reflect an individuals innermost thoughts and emotions; then the tree-line which symbolizes the division of understanding between the world understood by an individual and the

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    Atmosphere: Thought the story‚ O’Conner presents us with several reoccurring themes of irony‚ realism‚ and revelation. She creates the atmosphere by beginning how the family interacted with each other and how they got along or how they didn’t. Baily and his wife tend to “ignore” the grandmother‚ because they feel like she always has something on her mind thus they had no reason to try and reason with her‚ while the children like to argue with grandmother‚ resulting further igniting her flame. O’Connor

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    Iris Chicas Flannery OConnor Essay 19 April 2013 Gray is more Black than White An analysis of evil and the anti-Christ figure of Mr. Paradise in “The River” In Flannery O’Connor’s story “The River”‚ the color gray is associated with the idea of evil. This evil is represented in the character of Mr. Paradise‚ who appears as the anti-Christ figure at the end when the protagonist reaches his epiphany and ironically drowns himself in the “River of Life”. OConnor associates much of her descriptions

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    scheduled to be unwound. Their stories are separate until they meet each other. Connor is the main protagonist who is sent to be unwound by his parents for his violent

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    Cited: Hawthorne‚ Nathaniel. "The Minister ’s Black Veil." The Bedford Introduction to Literature. 1836: 393-401. Bedford/ St.Martins 2005. OConnor‚ Flannery. "Good Country People." The Bedford Introduction To Literature. 1955:441-454. Bedford/St.Martins 2005.

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    Frank O’ Connor’s short story‚ "Guest of the Nation"‚ exemplifies an effective plot as all good writing does through the utilization of rising and falling action. With the implementation of the major components integrated to form the plot‚ O’Connor is able to construct an alurring and exciting series of situations for his readers to enjoy. In essense‚"Guest of the Nation" stays true to the conventions of a cogent plot as we as readers are able to experience every second of this unfolding story.

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    Catholicism‚ which is extremely traditionalistic. As you would expect‚ the one who does not like change‚ or the one that you could argue represents the Catholic Church‚ is not very intelligent‚ angry‚ and not a very likable character. Even from her first work O’Connor was making it clear her feeling for the Catholic Church and its members. An online analysis of the story find that the theme of the story is control‚ they go into more detail on the subject‚ “Control‚ the story seems to say‚ is elusive.

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    touched my heart in a special way because I went through an experience similar to Mrs.Turpin. About six years ago‚ I was elected as a president for the largest Muslim mosque in Pennsylvania. When I took charge‚ the mosque was in deficit. With my hard work and support from the community‚ I tripled the funds I started with. At that time‚ my life revolved

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    The First Woman of the US Supreme Court. The first woman of the US Supreme Court was Sandra Day O’Connor. She was an incredible woman who fought for the rights that women have today. “On July 7th President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first women of the US Supreme Court” (www.biography.com). She was considered to be a modern conservative‚ she also served for 24 years (www.biography.com). At a very young age she showed high levels of intelligence. “She retired in 2006” (www

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    com/top/.../o/flannery_oconnor/‎ The New York Times News about Flannery O’Connor. Commentary and archival information about Flannery O’Connor from The New York Times. Searches related to mary flannery o’connor mary flannery o’connor short stories mary flannery o’connor a good man is hard to find mary flannery o’connor biography mary flannery o’connor quotes mary flannery o’connor writing style a good man is hard to find mary flannery o connor biography mary flannery o connor quotes 1

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