Flannery O'Connor

Before my college experience, if someone would have asked about Flannery O'Connor, I probably would have responded with, "is that a beer?" However, fast-forwarding to the present, I can say with certainty that she is one of my favorite authors. The way she pulls you through her stories is stunning. It's like you are being dragged by a rope behind a 4-wheeler. By the end of the tug you are dirty and ragged, but it was a hell of a ride! Sometimes you never know where you are going to end up, and that is the beauty of her writing.

Regarding "Everything That Rises Must Converge," there is an absolute theme of integration. Through the experience of reading this short story, we can depict the characters’ past experiences. There are two incompatible personalities in the passage, Mrs. Chestney, the mother, which represents the transition from the old South, and Julian, the son, who represents the transition of the new South.

I loved the line, "meet yourself coming and going." Mrs. Chestney isbasically implicating her kind as the party responsible for the tension between black and whites. In fact, what she really means is that, "we dominated this race of people," and feels threatened by it.