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Personal Narrative: Like Hulga In Good Country People

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Somewhere during fleeing your home in an hour and driving through flood waters high enough to submerge more than half of an SUV, you realize that the only thing you truly need is your life. As prayers flew off the lips of my siblings and I, I wasn’t thinking about my house or the new shoes I had just bought a week ago. I was thinking that I just wanted my family to escape with our lives. When the flood hit, Like Hulga in Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor, I felt like I had gotten a leg taken out from right under me. I had always considered myself to be extremely appreciative for what I have. Growing up Catholic, it has been engrained in me my whole life to be grateful for what I have, especially because there are always people who are

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