Essay on The Geranium and Judgment Day - 2602 Words

Flannery O’Connor’s short-story work occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, a time in which race caused significant tensions among Americans. Raised in the south, Flannery grew up in an atmosphere of overt racism and Catholic fervor. Both of these influences affected the way she wrote. Flannery OConnor conveyed both her moral and religious values in her writing, and she consistently wrote about religion and race within this narrow perspective. â€Å"Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics† (OConnor Habit 147–8).She showed this narrowness repeatedly by her†¦show more content†¦While the setting of â€Å"Everything That Rises Must Converge† occurs on a bus in the south, and most of the story’s hostility occurs because the bus is integrated, the social norm s only a few months prior to the story were drastically different. â€Å"The Artificial Nigger† is also full of race-related issues. Over the years of her life, O’Connor continued to employ race and moral themes in her writing. In writing â€Å"The Geranium,† she started with a white southern man who did not want to be in New York because of the integration, but who ends up being helped by a black man when he falls. By the time she finished the story, however, she ended up with a totally opposite storyline: a white southern man in New York tries to befriend a black man and ends up having a stroke and falling down the stairs to his death. At first writing, Flannery OConnor characterized the white southerner as racist. But when she learned that she was going to die from lupus, her views on how racism played out on both sides of the fence became less one-sided. Both blacks and whites, she seemed to surmise, had similar issues with integration. There were people, both black and white, who might be against integration, but who also might find unexpectedShow MoreRelatedA Letter to His Parent by Jose Rizal4 223 Words   |  17 PagesSoil 14. Platinum 15. copper SOCIAL STUDIES Match column A with column B write the letters of the correct answer. 1. November a. Feast of Penafrancia 2. May b. Lenten season Holyweek 3. September c. All saints day 4. December d. Santacruzan 5. March or april e. Christmas 6. January f. Sinulog Arrange the Lenten celebration in order. Write the number 1-5 on the blank. A. Pabasa B. Palm Sunday C. Easter Sunday D. BlackRead More Sexism, Prejudice, and Racism in Lees To Kill A Mockingbird2051 Words   |  9 Pageseyes of a young girl and follows her through the experience of childhood growing up in the racist, prejudice, and sexist south during the great depression. This serves as a platform for the guidance of her father, who she looks up too, to combat the judgment of others (Shakleford). Both black men and women are not allowed on the ground floor and are restricted to the balcony. Also women as well as blacks do not serve on juries (Shakleford). This serves as an obvious visual example of the sexist ways