Flannery O'conner
Before even reading or hearing about Flannery O’Connor’s background, I thought that she was a he and his works would be about the Irish in the 40’s and 50’s. So it was a quite a shock to learn that Flannery was a) a woman and b0 she writes about life in the South.She spent most of her life in the South in a Christian household, which finds its way into her work. Revelation was written in 1965 and focuses on one day in the life of Ruby and Claude Turpin. The very title of the story brings us back to the revelation stories in the bible whether it’s the book of Revelation or the Book of Daniel. Throughout the story religious references are made from Ruby’s Tower of Babel like vision at the end or the numerous church references. If we really wanted to reach and go into a conspiracy theorist thinking, Jesus was buried
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Approximate Word count = 556
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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