`` Everything That Rises Must Converge ' : Racial Prejudice And The Struggles Of Integrating Other Races

“Everything That Rises must converge”, by Flannery O’ Connor is sometimes considered a comical but also serious tale of a grown man named Julian, who lives with mother, who happens to be your typical southern woman. The era unfolds in a couple years after integration begins. Throughout the story, O’Connor impresses us with her derived message in which people often resist to growing away from bigotry towards self-awareness and love for all humankind, which is so necessary for life to converge in equality. O’Connor has a distinctive style of writing that expresses this message through characterization, conflict and literary devices.

Throughout the novel many problems occur. Some of the main problems are racial and equality issues. Events in this book show how prejudice and intolerance can ruin numerous friendships and change lives.

In Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, Julian Chestny, a young white man struggles to accept the ignorant beliefs and actions of his elderly mother in a post-civil rights era. The point of view plays an important role in this story and how readers interpret it. A point of view is the vantage point of which the story 's told. O’Connor uses point of view to help illustrate the central idea of the story.

In spite of the fact that he says that he have liberated, contemplating race, Julian is from multiple points of view pretty much as little and irrelevant and little disapproved as he sees his mom to be. Julian has grown up with a slender arrangement of encounters, affected by his pestering and over-controlling mother's restricted feeling of the world. On account of his school training, be that as it may, he has purchased/has claimed/has gotten another arrangement of taught feelings/perspectives (identified with/taking a gander at/considering) race and social (state where everything is equivalent). Julian tries to separate himself from his mom's old (and pointless) convictions by freely (appearing or demonstrating) his liberal perspectives on (blend of various races, societies, nationalities, and so on working and living respectively) and racial relations.

The characters are in the stage of culture shock which allows the reader to infer what the different reactions to the Civil Rights Movement were. The reader is given 3 very distinct reactions to the social change. One is Julian's view which is for equality, but uncertain of how it is to happen. The second Julian’s mother who believes that whites are superior to blacks. The third is of the black woman who is pushing for change.

To show first hand to the whites the inequality’s and hardships that the blacks face, the entire first section is in a narrative and a descriptive format. The use of these types of essays lets the readers feel more involved in the story and feel things for themselves. Split into two sections within itself, this first paragraph juxtaposes two stories — one about a “young Negro boy” living in Harlem, and the other about a “young Negro girl” living in Birmingham. The parallelism in the sentence structures of introducing the children likens them even more — despite the differences between them — whether it be their far away location, or their differing, yet still awful, situations. Since this section is focused more towards his white audience, King goes into a description of what it was like living as an African American in those times— a situation the black audience knew all too well. His intense word choice of describing the boy’s house as “vermin-infested” provokes a very negative reaction due to the bad

Julian is probably the meanest person in the book. He has done many things that makes people think, “Why would anybody do that?” Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense to why he is so mean, but maybe him having a view of the story that would give some reason to why he did what he did. Wonder has almost all of the character’s points of view in it, besides Julian; if we did have Julian’s view, we might learn more about why he bullied August or any new insight on his life that is unknown to the Wonder readers. He still does not need to be looked at as a good guy, but some type of reason he would be so mean, whether it is a good or bad reason, should, in my opinion, be seen.

The most important theme in this book was the trials and tribulations of racism because it was woven in every part of the plot, it contributed to the conflict and resolutions, and gave the story a connection to current events, helping the reader’s comprehension.

Anne was immediately confused by their presence because they seemed to be just like her except for skin color. On one occasion all the children were playing together in the lobby of a movie theater. Anne was with some local white children playing, but when it was time to enter the movie lobby the white children went in one direction and Anne went in after her friends. Her disapproving mother quickly stopped Anne and they left the theater. Before this instance Anne had never considered the coincidence that all the white children watched the movie from the bottom terrace and all the African America children from the top terrace. While thinking about the difference Anne realized that the bottom terrace and side entrance was much more luxurious than the raggedy top terrace, where she and her mother usually sat (38-2). After this the difference in skin color became much more apparent to her in everyday life. Anne was motivated to find the answers as to why she was treated differently because of the color of her skin.

"Everything That Rises Must Converge" also uses its setting to explore place and heritage to give us better insight into the actions and feelings of the characters. Julian, living in a poor neighborhood with his mother, shortly after the integration of blacks to public transportation, struggles to get his mother to understand that the world has changed. No longer are there huge plantations with hundreds of slaves, in fact "there are no more slaves." Once fashionable neighborhoods, like the one in

In the first two parts, Julian is determined to deny the object in terms of the subject. Thus he is denying the existence of objects, the separations from himself. He is the subject and his self is divided against itself. His unconscious narcissistic desires are motivating him to reconfigure the world in terms of his own desires, however his conscious is not in agreement. Julian has now conceptualized the relation between himself and others, and the importance it carries. He has now denied himself, and ceases to exist except unto others; he now denies the subject and in terms of the object. He is allowing complete domination of himself by the world, realizing this is the only way to again achieve paradise. Although this has changed, Julian will only ever be motivated by the same end result: his return to primary narcissism.

Generations of people always grow up learning different beliefs from their parents, who usually still hold on to old fashioned beliefs and ideas. “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, by Flannery O’ Connor, is considered a humorous but enthralling tale of a college graduate named Julian who lives with his prejudiced mother. The story takes place a couple years after segregation ended in the South, and African Americans and Caucasians can share public transit. Throughout the story, O’Connor impresses the reader with her consequent message that people often resist growing away from bigotry towards self-awareness and love for all humankind, which is necessary for life to converge in equality.

In Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, O’Connor uses the symbolism of the violet hat and the shiny new penny along with all of the things Julian’s mother has done for him throughout his life, to place the broader societal conflict of race relations within the context of the unstable relationship Julian has with his mother, showing how poor southern whites used blacks to elevate themselves. Julian’s clashes with his mother over morals, race, and appearances mimic the greater conflict of racial relations in society.

In Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything that Rises Must Converge,” a mother and son converse through most of the story over their identities and what it means to be self-aware. Julian is a young man who went to a liberal arts college. He prefers to have conversations that pertain to the arts, society, and politics. But, his mother is a typical southern raised white woman, she believes she is above the colored people because her grandfather had a plantation with working African American slaves. These personalities contribute to being self-aware or knowing who you are as person. O’Conner portrays the characters as the old versus the new, allowing for there to be a divide between Julian and his mother. The characters experience self-awareness differently when dealing with an inferior race, such as African Americans.

Flannery O' Connor's short story “Everything That Rises Must Converge” is about racial judgment in the south in the 1960's. O' Conors main focus in this story is how the white middle class viewed and treated people from different races in the 1960's. The story is an example of irony, redemption as well as a struggle of identity among the characters. The main characters in O'Connor's story are Julian an aspiring writer, who works as a typewriter salesmen, and his mother who is a low-middle class racist white woman who has strong views about thvxe African-American race. Both Julian and his mother are great depictions of the white mindsets of racial integration in the