Religion and Racism in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that R

Religion and Racism in Flannery OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that Rises essential ConvergeFlannery OConnor, undoubtedly one of the most well-read authors of the early 20th Century, had many strong themes deeply embedded within all her committal to writings. twain of her most prominent and poignant themes were Christianity and racism. By analyzing, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that Rises Must Converge, these two themes jump out at the reader. outgrowth up in the mid-1920s in tabun was a huge influence on OConnor. Less than a decade before her birth, Georgia was much different than it was at her birth. Slaves labored tirelessly on their masters plantations and were indeed a facet of everyday life. However, as the Civil war ended and Reconstruction began, slaves were not easily assimilated into Southern culture. Thus, OConnor grew up in a highly racist area that mourned the fact that slaves were now to be treated as equals. In her everyday life in Georgia, OConnor encountered countless citizens who were not shy in expressing their discontent toward the black race. This indeed was a guiding influence and inspiration in her fiction writing. The other guiding influence in her life that became a major theme in her writing was religion. Flannery OConnor was born in Savannah, Georgia, the only child of a Catholic family. The region was part of the Christ-haunted Bible belt of the Southern States. The spiritual heritage of the region deeply shaped OConnors writing as described in her essay The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South (1969). Many of her 32 short stories are flood with Christ-like allusions and other references to her faith.A Good Man is Hard to Find, OConnors 1955 sho... ...ing up right before her eyes.Although Flannery OConnor didnt even live to infer her 40th birthday, her fiction endures to this day. In A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that Rises Must Converge, OConnor effectively deals with the t wo huge themes (topics) of religion and racism. These two themes are crucial to understanding much of OConnors great works and are relevant to all readers of OConnor throughout all ages. full treatment CitedBandy, Stephen C. One of my babies The Misfit and the Grandmother in Flannery OConnors short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Studies in Short Fiction Winter 1996, v33, n1, p107(11) OConnor, Flannery. The Complete Stories. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. new-fangled York 1971. Satterfield, Ben. Wise Blood, Artistic Anemia, and the Hemorrhaging of OConnor Criticism. Studies in American Fiction 17 (1989) 33-50.