Natural, Unnatural, and Supernatural

Introduction

This paper will utilize 3 stories from the text book The Compact Bedford Introduction To Literature, 8th edition, by Michael Meyer. These three are "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor, “Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O'Brien. Essentially, the paper will discuss the use of the unnatural and/or supernatural in three of the stories

“Revelation” by Flannery O'Connor

In 1964 at thirty-nine years, Flannery O'Connor already began the final meters of his career. While slowly off his existence, she casts a sneering glance over his shoulder. For years, ever since, his pain was under house arrest in the small family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia lost village where, surrounded by an unlikely backyard - one-legged hens, swans blind, colonies exponential peacocks which it devotes a cult - with patience, she writes.

Illness prevents him only two hours daily. Never mind, every morning she goes to her table, missed appointments with you. By his own admission, it does not always come out much. Flannery is a laborious. She is five and seven years to complete his two novels. Meanwhile, she wrote short stories to stretch the head, for entertainment. But nothing is simple. She just, correct, temperature, often throws without qualms the product of months of coal. It has no predetermined plan, it is his characters running the show and the lead where they want. The tough work of writing does not preclude the decline, derision, the exquisite interior jubilation. In the silence of his room in the depths of herself, the girl held the coasts. What is she pokes fun? Of stupidity, too quickly acquired certainties, prejudices, of thinking, biased, stupid. Donning his glasses give him an air of rancid old daughter, she pins her time. Without concessions on his contemporaries, she hunts down the pretenses, and yet always willing to expose the truth behind life and human relationships . To laughter, she laughs as his own weaknesses and its physical decay. Face blown cortisone, deformed jaw, clinging to his aluminum crutches, ectoplasm she became furious retains a zest for life. And how hilarious this is reflected through the correspondence she has with her ??friends and some of his readers, collected postmortem by Sally Fitzgerald under the title used to be.

Behind the humor, despite the sometimes points. Flannery's destiny is to be misunderstood. Misunderstood by his audience, which remains on the periphery of his texts, unaware of their spiritual significance, misunderstood by critics who misunderstand his intentions, misunderstood by his own mother who urged him to finally write a real novel Southern union, result of Gone with the wind. For this great misunderstanding, the author is not weakening, agreeing to pay the price of his literary requirement. She tried to bring forth the invisible visible, the reader grasp the impalpable reality in the mirror she keeps it tender. It is now time for her to rejoin the second reality, God is waiting on the other side.

“Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman ...