Monday, October 26, 2009

Flannery O'Connor Reaction

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What is the difference between a Catholic and a Southerner? A catholic is a type of faith, religion, and or denomination if you want to call it that. Southerner is a type of region like if you where from the north, you would be called a northerner. I don’t think that there is much of a big difference between the two though. Southerners have a long line of history like the importance of church. Especially by going through a lot of racial ordeals. After reading the critical analysis on Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, I felt that O’Connor being a Southerner and a Catholic had a great impact on how the stories played out and the language that was written in it.
All three of the short stories had a lot of racial acquisitions in them. Down in the south, well back in those days they were used to a lot of racial abuse. Southerners have developed that type of slang talk and grow up with it in the south. By me being a southerner myself, when I was reading O’Connors stories and I came across a racial statement I got offended. This was total honesty and I think anyone would feel different about it depending on where they were raised and how they where brought up.
One can tell that O’Connor is of the catholic faith because of the religiosity that is being portrayed in all three of the short stories. She is always talking about praying and about believing. This impacts her stories because her background and her religion play truthful roles in how the stories are being projected. It is your ethnicity and background that puts you in the position or makes you feel related to the story in general.

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