Religion and Racism in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that R

Religion and Racism in Flannery OConnors A honorable homo is Hard to Find and Everything that Rises Must come acrossFlannery OConnor, undoubtedly one of the most well-read authors of the early twentieth Century, had many strong themes deeply embedded within only her writings. two of her most prominent and poignant themes were Christianity and racism. By analyzing, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that Rises Must Converge, these two themes jump out at the reader. Growing up in the mid-1920s in Georgia was a huge beguile on OConnor. Less than a decennary before her birth, Georgia was very much different than it was at her birth. Slaves labored tirelessly on their masters plantations and were indeed a facet of frequent life. However, as the Civil War ended and Reconstruction began, slaves were not slowly assimilated into Southern culture. Thus, OConnor grew up in a highly racialist ara that mourned the fact that slaves were now to be treated as equals. In her every day life in Georgia, OConnor encountered countless citizens who were not faint-hearted in expressing their discontent toward the black race. This indeed was a guiding influence and inspiration in her fiction writing. The other guiding influence in her life that became a major theme in her writing was religion. Flannery OConnor was natural in Savannah, Georgia, the only child of a Catholic family. The region was ramify of the Christ-haunted Bible belt of the Southern States. The spiritual heritage of the region deep shaped OConnors writing as described in her essay The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South (1969). Many of her 32 short stories are inundated with Christ-like allusions and other references to her faith.A Good Man is Hard to Find, OConnors 1955 sho... ...ing up right before her eyes.Although Flannery OConnor didnt change surface live to see her 40th birthday, her fiction endures to this day. In A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that Rises Must Converge, OConnor effectively deals with the two huge themes (topics) of religion and racism. These two themes are crucial to understanding much of OConnors great works and are relevant to all readers of OConnor throughout all ages. Works CitedBandy, Stephen C. One of my babies The Misfit and the Grandmother in Flannery OConnors short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Studies in piteous Fiction Winter 1996, v33, n1, p107(11) OConnor, Flannery. The Complete Stories. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. New York 1971. Satterfield, Ben. Wise Blood, nice Anemia, and the Hemorrhaging of OConnor Criticism. Studies in American Fiction 17 (1989) 33-50.