Everything that Rises Must Converge

Also Julian wants to be the popular one and to be the hero, but I think he's fine just the way he is. Also every day he finds new experiences and sometimes forgets about his childhood thoughts. And in the story, Julian and his brothers have to stay out of trouble, protect themselves, and to problem solve.

duplicate of his mother's hat. His mother shocks and her face shows a sudden rise in blood pressure. She recovers soon and starts to make up to the little boy, a kind of pity for him and plays with him. The boy's mother doesn’t feel good and pulls her son away. The Julian's mother continues to search for a nickel to give the little boy. All she finds is a penny and even though Julian warns her not to do it, she offers it to the little boy. The boy's mother upsets and hits badly Julian's mother with her packing books, and says ''He doesn't take nobody's money''.

Before Julian heard and understood his grandmothers story, he portrayed many negative character traits. First of all, when Auggie first goes to Beecher prep Julians response is very negative, “I wish he had kept his creepy little face hidden away like in ‘Phantom of the Opera’ or something. Put a mask on, Auggie! (Palacio 5) This quote proves that Julian is very ornery toward and around Auggie; he also blames him for his loss of popularity. Julian thinks that just because someone looks different from you it's okay to be mean to them. He is very nasty toward Auggie and thinks he is allowed to act this way. Due

His mother, Joy, wanted Wes to live a good life which led to her enrolling him in a mainly white private school. Wes felt out of place at the school due to the fact that he was not wealthy and had minimal school clothing options. In his neighborhood, Wes’s friends would give him a hard time about attending a fancy school. Since both worlds were so different, Wes felt like he did not belong in either which took a toll on his confidence.

"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

Flannery O’Connor’s, “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” takes place in the 1960’s South during a politically-heated time of integration and social rights. The story follows Julian Chestny, his lower-middle class mother, and their supposedly differing views on the issue of race. Through the use of symbolism and by creating a foreboding tone, O’Connor sheds light on the themes of race, how different generations react to change, and false superiority. O’Connor utilizes Ms. Chestny's hat and the penny she offered to Carver in order to symbolize race and the relations between those of different races. Ms. Chestny invests a whopping seven dollars and fifty cents on a hat that causes her emotional turmoil and leads to her fretting, “Maybe I shouldn't have paid that for it.

“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.

In “Everything That Rises Must Converge” written by Flannery O’Connor, characters Julian and his mother, referred to only as “Julian’s Mother”, maintain an intricate and rather deleterious relationship. Their conflicting views regarding race issues are the ultimate dividers in their relationship and place a large strain on nearly all of their interactions. Their relationship heavily affects both characters and carries a strong significance in each others lives. Both characters are deeply affected by their relationship with one another and are reliant on each other in different aspects. Julian is resentful of his mother but is also aware of the physical support she has given him throughout his lifetime, including sending him to college and

However, Julian, like many O 'Connor characters, experiences a sudden realization that stems from his flaws. Toward the end of the story, his mother attempts to give a coin to the child of a belligerent black women, who, not coincidentally, has the exact same absurd hat that his mother was wearing at the beginning of the story. He finds this hilarious, thinking, “The vision of the two hats, identical, broke upon him with the radiance of a brilliant sunrise. His face was suddenly lit with joy. He could not believe that Fate had thrust upon his mother such a lesson,” (11). David Leigh, who wrote an essay concerning O’Connor’s short fiction, comments on this particular relationship. He explains, “Only after he experiences the suffering of his mother, who has a stroke at the end of her conflict with a

Everything that rises must converge was such a great story. In the story I learned the changes that Julian and his mother symbolize. In the beginning of the story Julian's mother hated black people she saw them as slaves even though slavery was over. Julian’ s mother was a middle class woman but didn’t see herself as such. She felt that everyone around her was beneath her especially the black people. Julian hated his mother, so he was quite opposite from her. I found it strange that he hated his mother so much knowing that she was sick and normally people show care and love to their sick parents. Julian play to position in the story; at the beginning of the story he played the victim and toward the end I discovered that he was the convict.

Flannery O’connor is one of the most shinning stars in American literature. Her distinct writing style makes her work recognizable and outstanding from other literature works. Many critics have commented on Flannery O’connor’s narrative voice. Louise Blackwell discovers Miss O’Connor often wrote according to southern tradition by using symbols in people’s daily life to convey the theme in a more profound way. From the perspective of the O’connor’s writing technique, Shirley Foster speaks highly of Miss O’connor’s works: O’connor’s skilled technique establishes the complicity between the readers and narrators. These two evaluations reveal the most important characteristics of Flannery O’connor’s works, directing readers to understand O’connor’s works much easier. Readers can understand the two critics’ comments by exploring the special narrative voices in Flannery O’connor’s well- known stories: “ Everything That Rises Must Converge” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.

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.

Tom, a son of Amanda, a poet, with no backbone gets a job in a warehouse and does not have any plan for his career. He is trapped by his mother and has suffered from that. However, Tom is curious about how he

Flannery O’Connor grew up immersed in the culture of the American South during the enactment of the Jim Crow laws. Her short stories contributed immensely to the literary genre known as Southern Gothic. She incorporated tone, imagery, and dialogue to showcase the way life existed in the South.

Dade, from Star Food, and Julian, from Everything That Rises Must Converge, both loose themselves and feel deserted at the end of their stories. Dade had disappointed both of his parents because he could not think for himself and agree with one parent, “I felt alone in the world, in the way that makes me aware of sound and temperature, as if I had just left a movie theater and stepped into an alley where a light rain was falling, and the wind was cool, and, from somewhere, other people’s voices could be heard. (Canin,17)” Julian was so caught up in trying to prove a point to his mother that he forgot he became arrogant and literally was alone at the end of the story, “A tide of darkness seemed to be sweeping her from him. “Mother!” he cried.