What is Flannery O’Connor talking about?
Your assignment for Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” is the same as the one for Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams”: respond to the story in your blogs, and be interesting – so interesting that someone who hasn’t read the story will enjoy reading it. Write at least 250 words.
This time, however, I’d like to hear more of your personal reactions to the
story. Take a reader through not only through a basic recap and your biggest insights, but your personal connections with the characters and stories as well.
This story is not easy, of course, and to get you started, I would like you to examine a couple essays on the story. They’re personal essays, one posted on a blog and one on a personal website dedicated to O’Connor, but I think they will help you connect with the higher levels of meaning in the story – places that are difficult for us to understand on our own, but when we combine our insight with those of others, we “get it” in a whole new way.
- Scroll to the bottom of this page to see the review on the story.
- This one ends a bit abruptly but I think it’s worth reading anyway.
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Filed under: Assignments, Quizzical Writers and tagged education, Flannery O'Connor, literature, sheehy
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