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Flannery O Connor Revelation Analysis

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Response Essay-Revelation by Flannery O’Connor “Revelation” is a short story written by Flannery O’Connor, which was published in her short story collection named “Everything That Rises Must Converge”. First of all, the title itself tells plenty about what the short story is about. It is about a woman realizing everybody is equal to God. It was written in first point of view, which means that the protagonist (Mrs. Ruby Turpin) is narrating the story herself. As all her previous works, “Revelation” contains symbolism and religious themes. Because O’Connor is a very religious woman, we can find symbolism on the names of the characters just as in “Judgement Day”. An example of this could be Mary Grace. Furthermore, O’Connor also applied intelligent and educated words. In my opinion, the text is a little difficult to understand. You have to read it slow and carefully in order to understand every word of it. Themes for this short story could be, as the title itself, revelation. Also could …show more content…

While Mrs. Turpin was at the waiting room speaking with Mary Grace’s mother, Mary Grace gets tired of her arrogant voice and language, closed her “Human Development” book and attacked her. Then, she was sedated, but not before yell to Mrs. Turpin “Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog!” This phrase had a lot of impact on Mrs. Turpin. O’Connor used imagery details several times, examples could be “…then she rose and thrust her feet in her brown oxfords, which she did not bother to lace, and stumped out onto the back porch and got her red plastic bucket” and “…next to her was a fat girl of eighteen or nineteen, scowling into a thick blue book which Mrs. Turpin saw was entitled “Human Development””. We can see that O’Connor used sensory details too. For example, “The radio was softly playing gospel music” and “She heard the mother cry out and Claud shout,

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