We have lived in a word and sadly still live in a world where society has been divided by race. This can be seen in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Everything that rises must converge”. In her story, she describes the constant struggle that Julian has with his mother, but with that constant struggle we also see other problems arise such as racism and equality. Julian always tries to go against what his mother believes in just to make her upset. She is a bigot so he decides to be anti-discriminatory against people of color. Many people believe that Julian had the best intentions when it came to his actions, but I believe his actions were solely to upset and rebel against his mother. There is a difference between doing something right because you want to prove a point and doing something right because it comes from your heart. This is exactly what Julian does and many views him as the only sane one versus his mom being totally irrational, but I believe that Julian isn’t any better than his mom. For example, Julian states, “Will you for God’s sake get off that …show more content…
I feel as if O’Connor’s had Julian’s mother presented in a strange way because there would be very few times where she seemed like a caring supportive mother for example, “I think you’re doing fine,” she said, drawing on her gloves. “You’ve only been out of school a year. Rome wasn’t built in a day”. If there is one thing that I could come to terms with is that she really did love her son, but she was just stuck with the old-school way of thinking, so can we really blame her for her actions and words? I still believe that she should be held accountable for her words and actions, because no matter what at the end of the day things like, “They should rise, yes, but on their own side of their fence.” as Julian mother states, should not be acceptable and it shows her morality as human