Literary Analysis Of Blood By Flannery O Connor

Literary Analysis from Two Stories: Conflict Both Authors Flannery O’Connor and Naomi Shahab Nye have contributed greatly in the literature field through short but creative narratives. Through the narratives, “Good Country People by O’Connor and “Blood” by Naomi, they have pointed out and provided resolutions to some of the daily challenges of humanity such as the various kinds of conflicts. Both the short narrative by O’Connor and the poem by Naomi strongly reflect the theme of conflict although at different angles and intensities. While O’Connor deals with human relational conflicts of interest, Naomi’s poem centers on passive conflicts between races and countries. Categorically, they both use various literary techniques such as imagery,

Her poem in response to some of the world’s historic massacres of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila that took place in Palestine refugee centers in Beirut during the civil war by the Lebanese (Bates,2011.) and the 9/11 as well as the attack on the World Trade Towers. The Poem describes her hopelessness feelings as she flail around in search of appropriate words. It is clear within the poem that she is importunate for intercultural appreciativeness. In one of interviews she asserts that “We are none of us faceless strangers but individuals who sometimes would rather catch a fly than kill it. Some of us bear names that were borrowed from the sky.”
In general, Naomi’s poem conveys a call for peace rather than conflict which will not help sort things out in the long run. Her use of simple words and ideas such as “Today’s headline clot in my blood” and “I call my father, we talk around the news” communicate the depth to which bad things has found their way into the world. The simplicity of the words, as a literary technique, communicates how bizarre and bewildering the world can turn out to be. Naomi also includes the help of other literary devices such as similes, metaphors, imagery and symbols to captivate his

While Hulga symbolizes naivity, Manley is her exact opposite symbolizing experience. Hulga knows little of her innocence and considers herself somewhat experienced due to her education and exposure to philosophers like Nietzsche, whose remarks she highlights suing a blue pencil: “Science wishes to know nothing of nothing.” Manley radically puts on his usual blue coat and complements his Bible suitcase with blue thereby relating her nihilism to his malevolence camouflaged as innocence. With her denial of God and predominance of nothing deprives her of the ability to recognize Manley for his true colors given that in “her economy,” both God and evil hold no