https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2017-04-27 20:58:29 UTC 2017-05-05 15:05:16 UTC hello@padlet.com savannahjean1999 https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/169702744 •Ths story "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" starts off on the farm of Lucynell Crater. 
• Mr. Shiftlet appears seeking a place to live, Ms.Crater offers him a place in the home in return of him doing work. 
•The daughter Lucynell seems to be infatuated with Mr.Shiftlet, at the same time Ms.Crater is trying to wed off Lucynell to him.
•Ms.Crater brings up the idea of narrative to Mr. Shiftlet and bribes him with the farm.
•The next day they marry and in the same day Lucynell and Mr.shiftlet go on their "honeymoon".
•During the ride to Tuscaloosa they stop at a diner and he proceeds to leave Lucynell there and go on his way.
•While on the road he encounters a little kid on the side of the road and picks him up ready to give him a ride .
•The kid proceeds to yell at Mr.Shiftlet and tell him that he is with the devil and then jumps out of the moving car, while in shock Mr.Shiftlet continues to drive away.

]]> 2017-05-03 15:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/169702744 belleredsox https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/169703619 Born Mary Flannery O'Connor in Savannah, Georgia on March 25th, 1925
Apart of a white and prosperous family, but faced discrimination due to her religion
Devoted Roman Catholic
Quiet yet rambunctious child with a passion for reading and writing
Father died from Lupus when she was 15
Graduated from Georgia State College in 1945 with a degree in Social Sciences
Studied Journalism at the Iowa Writer's Workshop; there, she met and became friends with many other writers
Published her first novel, Wise Blood, in 1952
Diagonosed with Lupus in 1952
Continued writing even with her disease until her death on August 3rd, 1964



]]> 2017-05-03 15:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/169703619 savannahjean1999 https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/169716344 • "Hitchhicker," Mr.Shiftlet explained. "I can't wait. I got to make Tuscaloosa" (O'Connor,537)
 -This quote is an example of collapse of mortality/values because he leaves his newly married deaf wife in a diner and leaves her on her own.
•" And with that he flung the door open and jumped out with his suitcase into the ditch" (O'Connor, 538)
-This quote is an example of chaos because the scene is all over the place with confusion.
•"He was more depressed than ever as he drove on by himself." (O'Connor,538)
-This quote is an example of confused sense of identity and place of the world because before he left her he was at a state of peace and then he left her and now he's depressed and sad]]> 2017-05-03 15:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/169716344 belleredsox https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/169718911 2017-05-03 16:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/169718911 tomtruman27 https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/170160437 -Wise Blood
Wise Blood was O'Çonnor's first novel. It was published in 1952. The novel is about religious beliefs and is portrayed in a very dark and unsettling way.
-A Good Man Is Hard to Find
This work is made up of a collection of short stories. Some of the stories in this work are, "'The River,"' ''Á Circle in the Fire,'' and '''The displaced Person."' Although all different plots, these stories all have the same dark and creepy tone.
-The Violent Bear It Away
-This is another novel by O'Connor. It was published in 1960. This novel is about Francis Marion Tarwater, a young man, and his strife to be a prophet.

Southern Gothic
All of Flannery O''Connor's works are all centered around the same genre called Southern Gothic. "Southern Gothic" is a southern type of writing that is very dark and grotesque in many ways. Edgar Allen Poe's works were much like Southern Gothic.

]]> 2017-05-05 12:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/170160437 tomtruman27 https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/170196144 The literary criticism titled "On Flannery O'Connor" critiques many of O''Connor's works and tendencies as a writer. Her stories are negatively portrayed and said to be too dark. 
Quote: ""There is such thing," Frost asserted, "as being too willing to be different."" (Kowalewski)]]> 2017-05-05 14:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/savannahjean1999/b6f3zmt3eabi/wish/170196144