Everything That Rises Must Converge Summary

A middle-aged professional woman, a slave of a noble residual household, ready to participate in her class YWCA movement, was once suggested that she is hypertensive. As she was afraid to take a bus by themselves, as they are integrated, she insisted on her and her son to the bus. Young people educated liberal ideology, her racial prejudice and her fantasy, her own more enlightenment and despair of her more intelligent.

At the opening of the story, she has not yet decided whether she will recently purchase a new purple velvet flap or wear a green hat bringing it back to the store. After all, seven dollars and fifty cents will pay the cost of gas. Julian, her son, his perspective, rulers the story that the hat is ugly, but nevertheless he still wears it to promote their departure I insisted. , That is to say that for a woman of good quality, her hat establishes its own identity, his mother is still skeptical, at least she says "I'm not satisfied". This hat has a symbolic meaning as her son's entertainment, a gigantic black lady and her son got into the bus, descended on the face of her seat and symbolized of her life in the actual scene I will. A black woman is wearing an accurate copy of a mother's ridiculous hat. Despite his mother's policeman, he showed a sharp increase in blood pressure, but Julius still pleased with this magnificent strike

But it looks like his mother came back. She is so cute Thinking of all the little black kids, this little boy, you need to know about this particular combination of arrogance and sentiment. Slovenish little white woman black woman 's suppressed anger quite rough, if you worked with nickel metal in her purse. When two women left the arrival of the bus, Nemesis, Julian's mother could not give a bright new penny to this boy who finds nickel. Black woman angry explosion, but her wallet swung to a white woman, she was knocked down. Julian · self-righteous accusation, she does not distinguish his mother's stupid and lower case letter, even though she sits on the sidewalk as well. But when his mother caused a stroke to the sidewalk soon, his feelings of advantage and anger quickly collapse into the state of a panic baby

In the early 1960s in the south, young writer, the main character, Julius opening, "we need to integrate every thing"

Flannarie O'Connor (1965) and Flannery O'Connor, "Confusion of everything must accompany" with the concept of sin and repentance of Christianity "like many short stories" everything has to converge " . Amidst this story Proud is the Okoner specific crime of concern. As Catholic, O'Connor believes that crime is a crime against God's crime, the power of man and the attempt to put on God. Representation of the south of O'Connor, the role of two white people as the center: An older woman who lived in her national heritage of her past glory of college education and her son Julian, from her stereotype Consider racist discriminatory view releasing the beginning of the story of the mother's life (see stereotype) 2 now comes to exercise the class. When they travel, they reveal not only each letter but also racial prejudice, but also exposed other people's serious confrontation

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Nine stories (1965) showed the power of O'Connor "everything must be integrated." The title story is a horrible, painful family drama and racial misunderstanding. "Apocalypse" and "Long-term Chill" further explore the conflict between quiet conversation criminals and stubborn images of descendents the zanzas were tense due to parents and physical violence

In the story, "All things must be integrated" and "Apocalypse" have for several violence. But unexpectedly there is no "apocalypse of hell", this sudden death and the final "all must be integrated", it still contains the same two stories of racial prejudice. On the second floor there is at least one of the description of the coldness and the role as arrogant. In fact, many role O'Connor is "primitive and grotesque". They fight for the importance of the scientific / industrial world, in this world, destroying the ability to establish meaningful relationships of humans, from the viewpoint of whether human beings are animal machines or bad, spiritually basically (IX ) ", But above, we found that many of these qualities are different, but they lack God and labor union. Readers who ultimately relate to O'Connor's story seem to be considered a violent means of revelation