Violence As The Highest Common Denominator In A Moment Of Grace
In 1945, 20 year-old Flannery O'Connor arrived at the University of Iowa and wanted to take part in a very reputable writers' workshop. However, it was not her speech that granted her access but her manner of writing that could be seen by Paul Engle a poet and a director of a writing program - as a forerunner of her career as a successful writer: "My name is Flannery O'Connor,' [Mr Engle] read from her hasty note. I'm not a journalist. Can I come to the Writer's Workshop?'"(Giroux) On that account she was admitted. Yet, for O'Connor, being a Southerner writer and a Catholic at the same time, it seemed that it would be difficult for the Northerner contemporaries to understand her writing. Fortunately, her works were and still are appreciated, especially since they reveal the problems of American society with violence, racial prejudices and religious differences between Catholics and Protestants prevailing in O'Connor's time. In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" O'Connor draws the......
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