...The haunting behavior Flannery O’ Connor creates a fictional world in need of faith. In the book Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor, Hazel (Haze) Motes is a young man that is driven to find Christ in the city of Taulkinham. Who I considerably believe him to be naïve person, because of his innocent, ignorant, and impulsive behavior. Flannery O’ Connor character is spiritual lean and hungry figures that reject lip services to Christianity and the insipid certainty of rationalism in the pursuit of salvation and portrays the moment of grace as an encounter with holiness and as a moment of epiphany and physical and emotional violence as an essential part of one’s transformation and growth. Hazel Motes is usually deprived economically, emotionally, or both and is dwell in a world which, in Flannery O’ Connor’s words, “the good is under construction”. Hazel is someone who dares to dream but shows no remorse towards the faith and belief that other people may have upon Jesus. Nobody seems to be impressed by the power of his words when Hazel Motes says, “Do you think I believe in Jesus?”… “Well I wouldn’t even if he existed, Even if he was on this train” (7). Hazel speaks to Mrs. Hitchcock in the train letting her know, he would never want to be redeemed; “If you’ve been redeemed, then I wouldn’t want to be” (7). His ignorant and stubbornly attitude is always against Jesus that even if he existed and had him in front of him, he still would refuse to believe. His ignorant attitude is...
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...How does Carters presentation of acting and performance affect your interpretation of the novel? Angela Carter presents acting and performance in Wise Children in a very theatrical, carnivalesque way. The carnivalesque, in terms of the novel and performance, is shown partly through the several links to Shakespeare’s plays and through the main motto of the novel ‘what a joy it is to dance and sing’. The novel is structured in five parts, with a first person retrospective narrative, in the same way a Shakespeare play is structured into five acts. The Hazard and Chance families in the novel, including Dora and Nora’s ‘legitimate’ and ‘famous Shakespearian actor of a father,’ Melchior, are all performers. The appearance of twins is a particular link to Shakespeare where this is a common element. This also links to the twins in the Shakespeare play ‘twelfth night’ where Viola dresses as her bother Sebastian producing confusion and comedy for the viewer. This display of deception links to when Dora asks Nora for Nora’s boyfriend for the night and they pretend to be each other and deceive him into thinking he is with Nora. Indeed, deception is a common theme throughout performance: Melchior deceives nearly everyone into thinking that he’s a nice man who’s ‘Our greatest living Shakespearian’ when really, underneath the performance he puts on, he’s really the ‘Prince of players’ and doesn’t really care about his own daughters, only that he’s centre stage. . Dora’s narration makes constant...
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...The haunting behavior Flannery O’ Connor creates a fictional world in need of faith. In the book Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor, Hazel (Haze) Motes is a young man that is driven to find Christ in the city of Taulkinham. Who I considerably believe him to be naïve person, because of his innocent, ignorant, and impulsive behavior. Flannery O’ Connor character is spiritual lean and hungry figures that reject lip services to Christianity and the insipid certainty of rationalism in the pursuit of salvation and portrays the moment of grace as an encounter with holiness and as a moment of epiphany and physical and emotional violence as an essential part of one’s transformation and growth. Hazel Motes is usually deprived economically, emotionally, or both and is dwell in a world which, in Flannery O’ Connor’s words, “the good is under construction”. Hazel is someone who dares to dream but shows no remorse towards the faith and belief that other people may have upon Jesus. Nobody seems to be impressed by the power of his words when Hazel Motes says, “Do you think I believe in Jesus?”… “Well I wouldn’t even if he existed, Even if he was on this train” (7). Hazel speaks to Mrs. Hitchcock in the train letting her know, he would never want to be redeemed; “If you’ve been redeemed, then I wouldn’t want to be” (7). His ignorant and stubbornly attitude is always against Jesus that even if he existed and had him in front of him, he still would refuse to believe. His ignorant attitude is...
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...In Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor creates a relationship between the past and the present by displaying how Hazel, Enoch, and Lily’s past leads to their present decisions and lifestyle. Hazel has nightmares about his grandfather and his past which leads him towards the idea of the church without Christ to go against the teachings of his grandfather. Hazel’s memories of his grandfather are displayed through a negative lens as Hazel often disagreed with his grandfather and his views of Jesus. The following quote describes his grandfather as well as displaying the similarities between him and Hazel’s present. “[his grandfather] would climb up the nose of it and preach from there and sometimes he would climb onto the top of it and shout down at...
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...Running head: WISE JUDGEMENT Wise Judgement Crystal Davila ENG 106 Survey of Literary Masterpieces University of Phoenix Daphne Matthews May 7, 2012 Wise Judgment There is this teenage girl Michelle who states that she is “in love” with her 17-year-old boyfriend. Her boyfriend is encouraging her to have sex with him saying that he will make sure they only have “protected” sex. The questions that come to my mind is what exactly is protected sex and how does she know she really is in love. At this age, do young adults really understand the true meaning behind love? There are five components of wise judgment and they can be applied to this scenario to understand what is happening and what can be done to help her understand how serious this situation can be. The first component to wise judgment is factual knowledge about matter of life. In this situation, does Michelle really understand what is at steak? This is similar to The Death of Ivan Ilyich when he states “What is the right thing?“ (Tolstoy, 2243). If not she should understand that correct information about protected sex. Even if someone has protected sex does not mean they are one hundred percent safe. Everything that is available for protective sex has warnings printed on them. Just because someone is in love does not mean they have to have sex. On the other hand, if Michelle was not ready and understood what can happen if she does give in to having sex with her boyfriend then she would...
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...The Wise and the Foolish Episode 2 Episode 2 Created by Sydney Boss Tembo Writing crew Lushomo Tabo Sipiwe Emmanuel EXTRAS Prof Secretary (Janet): Mwaka Profs Wife Claire Last time on the wise and the foolish Plot: Frank is on the phone approaching the house And he has just inserted the key into the door and he is about to open the door Elizabeth and John do not know what is happening Elizabeth and John then hear his voice Elizabeth: My husband is at the door John: Jesus why me Lord…Zona Elizabeth: Shi keep quiet John: Ok Elizabeth: if he comes in I will just tell him the truth John: Eh…..Are you serious Elizabeth: Of course John: Awe not now Elizabeth: Seriously do you think this is a game John? John: Sorry Kachi pusumuka fye… ………………………………………………………………………………………………… Frank then receives a call from Angela Angela: Good evening sir is this a good time Frank: Good evening Angela, what seems to be the problem? Angela: It’s about the company sir I am still in the office going through the books and what I see isn’t pleasing, can we meet tomorrow? Frank: Ahhh…..ok let me pass by because it sounds urgent. Elizabeth then shouts: Honey is that you? Frank: Yes it is I wanted to be early today but something just came up Elizabeth: Really Frank: I am needed at the office, so I will be a bit late Elizabeth: Ok thanks for the effort honey. Introduction of Kimberly Scene: Office Late Meeting Angela: Sir the company...
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...Rhoda Wise –Wife, Mother, Mystic, Stigmatic, and Catholic convert (1888-1948) Rhoda Wise was born on February 22, 1888 and was the sixth child of Eli and Anna Greer (nee Anna Poulson). They eventually had eight children, five boys and three girls. She was born in Cadiz, Ohio, however when she was two they moved to Wheeling, West Virginia. Her father Eli worked in the family trade of bricklaying. Her mother was very patriotic and became involved with the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization which supported the veterans of the Civil War, even serving as a state and a national president for a time. Her parents were staunchly Protestant and Rhoda grew up in the First Christian Church. There was a definite anti-Catholic bias in the family and among their friends. Rhoda often heard unkind remarks about Catholics and the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, she did have a few Catholic friends. Incidentally, when she was sixteen, Rhoda had a small encounter with Catholicism. While she was in Wheeling Hospital for an appendicitis operation, she received a visit from a Catholic Sister who gave her a St. Benedict medal. Rhoda explained to Sister that because of her parents dislike for the Catholic Church she would never be allowed to wear it, so Sister put the small medal in Rhoda's locket. Deeply touched by the Sisters kindness, Rhoda kept that hidden medal for the rest of her life. Rhoda married Ernest Wissmar, a young widower from Canton, Ohio, in November of 1915 and...
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...Jonald Bondoc “Wise at Heart” In 1973, Alice Walker wrote a short story entitled “Everyday Use.” It is about the conflict between two siblings over who gets to keep an artifact of the family’s heritage. At the end of the story, it shows that the younger daughter, Maggie, gets to keep the quilts which the older daughter, Dee, wants most. Despite the fact that the older daughter’s education is superior to the younger daughter’s education, Maggie knows more about her heritage than Dee does. They may both have a liking for their heritage, but Maggie likes her heritage because it brings back memories of her loved ones, while Dee likes it because she wants to use her heritage for selfish reasons. Dee is more educated than her family but lacks the knowledge about her heritage’s true essence; she wants the artifacts of her heritage but only for her selfish reasons. She is the only one in her family that goes to school which means she is the only one in her family who receives a proper education. In the story, Dee visits her family from college because she wants to have something from them: the family’s heritage. Dee wants to have the butter churn top and dasher which were made by her uncle, and she also wants the quilts that were made by her Grandma Dee, which contains pieces of Dee’s grandparents’ and great grandfather’s clothes. What is intriguing about Dee’s action is that she never likes her heritage, and it is even mentioned in the story that Dee changes her name to Wangero...
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...Flannery O'Connor was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. After her father died of lupus erythematosus, a rare and fatal autoimmune disease, she and her mother lived alone. She received a general education at Georgia State College for Women and then continued to study creative writing at the University of Iowa. After receiving an M.F.A. degree in 1947, Flannery spent time in an artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, and then with friends in Connecticut. She finished writing Wise Blood in 1950. Later that year, Flannery developed the same disease that had ended her father's life. Though crippled by lupus, Flannery was able to enjoy a modest lifestyle on her mother's ancestral farm, raising peacocks and writing. Her short stories are collected in A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories (1955), Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965), and Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories published posthumously in 1971. Her only other novel was The Violent Bear it Away (1960). Flannery O'Connor was a devout Catholic. She approached her work as a novelist and short story writer with a realistic understanding of her audience. The society around her had separated physical fact from spiritual reality and was left without any ground for belief. As Flannery wrote of spiritual experiences, she was careful not to "approach the divine directly," but rather to "penetrate the natural human world as it is." (O'Connor 68) She had a keen ear for common speech and used her observational...
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...In O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” Hulga and Manly Pointer have false identities because their appearances are deceptive of their characters. The story begins with Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman lighting the heaters and taking care of “important business” in the mornings. Joy, who is thirty-two years old and has a doctorate in Philosophy, takes her time coming down to breakfast every morning. Joy is grumpy in the mornings, but Mrs. Hopewell—her mother—lets her get away with it because she has a wooden leg. Joy’s leg was “shot off in a hunting accident” when she was ten years old. Joy decides that her name does not fit her well, and at twenty-one years of age, changes her name to Hulga. Although Hulga is has a doctorate in Philosophy, she...
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...One-Sample Tests of Hypothesis LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1 Define a hypothesis. 2 Explain the five-step hypothesis-testing procedure. 3 Define Type I and Type II errors. 4 Define the term test statistic and explain how it is used. 5 Distinguish between a one-tailed and a two-tailed hypothesis. 6 Conduct a test of hypothesis about a population mean. 7 Compute and interpret a p-value. 8 Conduct a test of hypothesis about a population proportion. 10-2 Define a hypothesis. Explain the five-step hypothesis-testing procedure. Hypothesis and Hypothesis Testing HYPOTHESIS A statement about the value of a population parameter developed for the purpose of testing. HYPOTHESIS TESTING A procedure based on sample evidence and probability theory to determine whether the hypothesis is a reasonable statement. 10-3 The Null and Alternate Hypotheses NULL HYPOTHESIS A statement about the value of a population parameter developed for the purpose of testing numerical evidence. ALTERNATE HYPOTHESIS A statement that is accepted if the sample data provide sufficient evidence that the null hypothesis is false. 10-4 Important Things to Remember about H0 and H1 H0: null hypothesis and H1: alternate hypothesis. H0 and H1 are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. H0 is always presumed to be true. H1 has the burden of proof. A random sample (n) is used to “reject H0”. If we conclude “do not reject H0”, this does not necessarily ...
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...Wise Judgment Scenario Psy 220 Wise Judgment Scenario I chose the scenario, “A teenage girl is “in love” with her 17-year-old boyfriend. He is encouraging her to have sex with him saying that he will make sure they only have “protected” sex.” I decided to choose this scenario because I have grown up in a generation where this situation is very common and many teenage girls do not know how to react to this. Sometimes it can be hard to use wise judgment but it’s not impossible. The first way would be to take a step back and recognize the situation before it gets out of hand. For instance the 17 year old girl has to recognize that the boy is maybe becoming too pushy about the situation by saying, “they will only have protected sex.” The problem here is that he is trying to persuade her and change her thoughts on the situation by saying it will be safe. By realizing this problem she will able to sit down and actually think about the situation instead of falling to pressure and having sex. She will also be able to realize that what he’s doing is wrong and maybe even be able to sit down and talk to him about everything. Another wise judgment would be to define each problem and decide which ones are solving. The problems in this situation are number one he is encouraging her to have sex. She apparently is having a problem with that or he wouldn’t have to encourage her to do anything. This problem would be easy to solve by telling him that she is maybe not ready...
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...Wise Advice Would you have liked to receive advice from previous students of a particular class that you were planning to take? We have all been new students at some point in our lives, and we know how overwhelming it can be. When students sign up for English 92 with Mr. Chapa, they most likely aren’t aware of what they signed up for. However, feeling overwhelmed so early into the semester isn’t the way to start. There are useful resources available for anyone who wants to know about courses and professors. One of many useful resources is an online website that consists of previous students stating reviews and comments about courses and professors, but the website doesn’t offer sufficient advice. I have several pieces of advice for incoming English 92 students to be able to succeed in the course. The first piece of advice for incoming English 92 students is to practice the concept that is taught. By practicing the new concepts, student will be able to develop useful skills needed throughout the semester, as well as for future college writing classes. Many students will begin the course with bad writing habits, but in English 92 they will have to let go of their bad habits to be able to replace them with good habits. The most important part of learning for English 92 will not be done in class; rather it’s done outside of class. At home or at a library the student will slowly begin to develop proper writing skills. Mr. Chapa is not a professor that will check on his...
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...Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” is a short story set on a small tenant farm in rural Georgia, where an accident leaves Joy, the protagonist, with one leg. This disfigurement has a profound impact on Joy’s life, leaving her emotionally scarred and causing her to distance herself from the real world. As a result, she decides to seek refuge in both education and intellectual advancement. Additionally, since Joy feels that her name represents something she does not feel, she decides to change her name to Hulga, an atrocious name that reflects her true personality. “Hulga” represents rage and grumpiness towards those around her, as she is not able to live the life she wanted to live, due to her health conditions. “Good Country People” focuses on the themes of alienation and identity. Through this masterpiece, Flannery O’Connor critically and effectively illustrates how physical challenges, intellectualism, and social class play a role in developing Hulga’s essence. Flannery O’Connor’s main weapon is the effective use of characters. This creates an extraordinarily superb piece of literature that transcends our wildest dreams. Through the use of characters, she is able to develop the different themes embedded in this story and embody the evolution of Hulga’s identity. For example, Hulga has been greatly influenced by her mother’s persona, since Mrs. Hopewell is highly critical of those around her and walks around with an immense sense of superiority. This is specifically evident...
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...“The River” By Flannery O’Conner Analysis The Bible has and always will have the uncanny ability to express meanings and truths in personal and powerful ways. Magnificent stories that carry themes and lessons that are seen by some, but lost to others. In the short story “The River” by Mary Flannery O’Conner a similar approach was used. O’Conner uses the powerful symbolism and brilliant metaphor of The River to craft a story that dives deeply into the themes of Faith and Salvation that express her personal convictions on the secular and Christian world views. This is especially true in Harry’s baptism scene as well as the final scene that take place at the river. In the story “The River” Harry’s Parents seem to show little or no interest in him. Their life is consumed with entertainment and the social life. Harry is either left alone to fend for himself or stuck with baby sitters for long periods of time. On one particular occasion Harry ends up going to a religious gathering at a river with one of his babysitters Mrs. Connin. There he is taken into the water and baptized by bevel the preacher. He is told how much he “Counts” and is loved in the eyes of God. Upon returning home, Harry finds that his parents are having another party. Disappointed, he realizes that living with his parent’s is hopeless and he never will matter to them. Harry then decides to take matters into his own hands. He reflects on how wonderful it was at the river the day before. He leaves the...
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