In a certain jurisdiction, the conflict of battling good and evil are within, waiting and pondering, enclosed by one’s soul. Some stances take place as a dissatisfaction, a novel idea, set on pleasing the one, true God. Flannery O’Connor, author of “Parker’s Back,” has a motivation to satisfy and have a revelation with God, a way being conscious to the fact of sin. In doing this, O’Connor uses the main characters O.E. Parker and Sara Ruth, and she sets a standard in her writing technique by broadcasting O.E Parker’s malaise lot in life through his attempts to satisfy Sara Ruth with the perfect tattoo. Also, while giving ramifications towards social commentary, therefore attempting to change the reader’s perspective, based on moral values. …show more content…
Parker has the feeling of strong emotion, “[it] lifted him up as some people are when the flag passes by. He was a boy whose mouth habitually hung open”(O’Connor 2), giving the allusion of the acclaiming accolades of admiration in his presence. Showing this awe-stricken archetype, habitats what should be, a habitually accommodated acceptance for God. O.E. Parker’s praise for tattoos establishes the material hunger for materialism; it unveils the author’s reality, revealing each tattoo as a sin towards God and defiance towards Sara Ruth, because she does not approve of them. Flannery O’Connor uses different writing styles and techniques to manipulate the reader into feeling the emotions of O.E. Parker and his dissatisfaction in life, while also displaying his obsession with tattoos, meant for pleasing Sara Ruth. The writing styles Flannery O’Connor uses give way to the expression and feelings of the characters’ emotive and colloquial language to authorize and internal emotion within the reader, giving credence to the morals of the reader enduring O.E. Parker’s harsh outlook on creation. …show more content…
This new social commentary Flannery O’Connor projects entails that O.E. Parker levels to the playing field of holding himself to a higher standard. Obadiah Parker’s “animals tattooed in his skin…symbolize [his] demon possession”(Brewer 2) when deliverance demands scrutiny, O.E. Parker tattoos the Byzantine Christ on his back, the only open place on his body. The Byzantine Christ represents “obviously an effort to rid him of his demons, but not until he avows his Biblical name Obadiah Elihue Parker”(Brewer 2). From this moment, when Obadiah Elihue Parker, seals the vow to God and to Sara Ruth, it unveils a new light and enlightens new jurisdictions, in regards to Obadiah’s previous moral