Abstract

The world today has mysterious ways of working its magic. The world was blessed when Flannery O'Connor was born, in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925. Flannery O'Connor was the only child of Edward Francis O'Connor and Regina Cline O'Connor. After graduation from Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville in 1945, she went to Iowa City and became a graduate student in the Writers' Workshop at the State University of Iowa.

Outline

Introduction

In introduction we provide a brief analysis about the work and life of Flannery O'Connor.

Discusion

The discussion part is further divided in the following sub heads:

Imagery

In this section we discussed about that Flannery O'Connor has few talents in her stories that reflect her home life and the way she, herself, dealt with conflicts in her life. David S. Cunningham writes that The South's identity results from beliefs and qualities absorbed from the scriptures and from her [the South's] own history of defeat and violation.

Symbolism

In this section we discussed that O'Connor's writing was filled with meaning and symbolism.

Regionalism

In this section we talk about that O'Connor's writing is similar to the teachings of Jesus because, Jesus spoke all things in parables he did not say anything to them without using a parable.

Conclusion

In this section we provide a summary of the paper what we have done so far in this paper.

Flannery O'Connor

Introduction

O'Connor wrote a few stories that came to success, one in particular was Wise Blood. In contrast, the main action of The Violent Bear It Away is simple and occurs over seven days, but much of the novel consists of flashbacks that recall incidents in the lives of the main characters. As events are brought to mind through the memories of various individuals, the author provides insight into their psychological and spiritual natures, reveals the motivations behind their actions, and offers an intimate family history clouded by personal feelings, religious and intellectual beliefs, and emotional confusion. The novel is divided into three sections, each covering a period in Francis Marion Tarwater's journey of spiritual self-discovery.

To the uninitiated, the writing of Flannery O'Connor can seem at once cold and dispassionate, as well as almost absurdly stark and violent. Her short stories routinely end in horrendous, freak fatalities or, at the very least, a character's emotional devastation. Working his way through "Greenleaf," "Everything that Rises Must Converge," or "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the new reader feels an existential hollowness reminiscent of Camus' The Stranger; O'Connor's imagination appears a barren, godless plane of meaninglessness, punctuated by pockets of random, mindless cruelty(Brinkmeyer, pp 58-190).

In this analysis, we will be looking at just how Flannery O'Connor accomplished this seemingly impossible task, non-didactic Christian fiction, by examining elements of faith, elements of style, and thematic elements in her writing. While secondary sources are included for perspective, I have focused primarily upon Miss O'Connor's own essays and speeches in my examination of the writer's motivations, attitudes, and technique, most of which are contained in the posthumous collection Mystery and Manners. Unlike some more cryptic ...