Thursday, June 3, 2010
Everything that Rises Must Converge
The author of this short story Flannery O'Connor exposed very well the trouble relationship between a mother and a son, and also the social problems in an racist world that Julian mother's and all of us live in. Being poor to her is acceptable, she assures herself all the time that once they were wealthy, they had a beautiful house, but her reality is completely different, she lived her life struggling to pay the bills and to pay her son's college, but appearance is more important to her than anything else, she never let her status go down, even broke and failed. The story shows a reality that is most common than we imagine. Only after loose his mother, Julian realizes he could be more kind and regrets for a lot of things he could have done. A lot people like him don't appreciate anything in life, just realizing that they lost something wonderful when is too late. The racial tension occurred in the story, is an example of arrogance and despair. Nobody is better than nobody. Every human being is the same and deserve mutual respect. The world would be a better place to live if tolerance and kindness were thought since childhood, the results would be invaluable.
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I really like your comment about perceptions. Perceptions to some people is everything. I noticed the underlying theme which is exactly that. I think it is more about the situation the mother finds herself in and the disgust she has with herself more so then it being about race. I think the race card is the only acceptable way in which she can show disgust in her own situation which is social acceptable.
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