Tom T. Shiftlet's The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Where am I from? I'm from Vilna, Lithuania, where my father's father was born. I'm from the Lower East Side of New York, where my mother's mother arrived in 1905 from Kiev and where her father sold fruit from a cart. I'm from suburban Pittsburgh and the Upper West Side.

“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

Flannery O’Connor’s The Life You Save May Be Your Own is about a young man with good intentions, a girl that represents the innocence left in the world, and a mother that is selfish. He speaks of how corrupt the world is and how there are no good people left; he becomes a hypocrite when he conforms to the world and does the things he said he would never do. O’Connor writes this story to show that the world is degrading and there are hardly any genuine people left.

I was born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California. My mother and father were a banker and a housewife with two older children. My father being George Francis Temple, and my mother being Gertrude Temple. My two older brothers were John Stanley Temple being the oldest of us all, and George Francis Temple, Jr. being the second oldest.

I was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809 (Holzer). I spent most of my childhood in Indiana from ages seven to twenty-one (Holzer). I did not always agree with my father but we had the same view on slavery. I helped out on the farm, and I read when could as a young boy.

All throughout America, high schools have a set academic structure that guide students in learning the path of our literature. One of the literature techniques that students are taught to learn is dark romanticism. Flannery O’Conner attempted to copy the novel, “The Devil in Tom Walker”. O’Connor set a great example of dark romanticism by writing “The Life Your Save May Be Your Own” due to the desolate locations, the hidden symbols, and the deaths by murder or madness.

returning and when she sees him he makes it out to look like there has

because he wanted justice, and valued the importance of life. In the last part of the story a line

because he lost all that he had, and all that was coming to him. He

born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley in a small town called Porterville. My

In this case, it was a 100$ silver Buick Skylark given to her by her dad. This car was the rustiest piece of junk you could find anywhere. It had a disgusting smell because of the previous owner smoked and had a dog. Every time Kelly turned left the car would stall. On one occasion the door just fell completely off! Overall she still loved the car because she could take her and her friend's places.

My name is Lay and I am seven feet six inches tall. I live in Blues Town. I helped build this town. We have built a bridge across Chip River. Here is a story about this bridge.

I’m Kyrah Bailey, I was born and raised here in Abilene and lived in Hawley, which is fifteen

the money for her trip to Italy. We also are told that he drew up an

Her brother is also an assassin that hunts in the Oakland Wastelands. They remember her mother as a loving and nurturing person whose death changed their way of life forever.