Fortunately, the beauty of the prose – the description of the sky as God’s “vast construction work” – is also an encouraging reminder of His presence in and around us. He desires after the truth that O’Connor’s fiction tries to present. 2007, Michael Kreyling described Enoch as obviously deranged and. Yet despite his efforts to physically blind himself, he still has the tools to see Christ. Summer Institute Reconsidering Flannery OConnor at GCSU in July. Motes goes on to found the “Church Without Christ” and preaches from atop the hood of his car before blinding himself with lime and ending up dead in a ditch (can you say BLEAK!?). The stores in Taulkinham stayed open on Thursday nights so that people could have an extra opportunity to see what was for sale. Before his military service, Motes had always intended to become a preacher like his grandfather. At the beginning of the narrative, Motes is traveling to Taulkinham, Tennessee, after fighting for four years in World War II. The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. Wise Blood is Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, and it is concerned with the journey of a young man named Hazel Motes. His second night in Taulkinham, Hazel Motes walked along down town close to the store fronts but not looking in them. The landlady arranges to have Sabbath put into a Welfare home. Flood warns him that Sabbath is only after his money, Hazel says that if she were, he would pay her to leave. Flood told Hazel he would have to pay double if she stayed, so he did.

When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers. Two months later Sabbath returned, shouting and screaming. The following doubles as both a dark look at how consumerism has limited our vision and a metaphor for O’Connor’s fiction falling on unreceptive ears: Flannery OConnor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925.

A quick passage from Flannery’s first novel, Wise Blood, that comes just after protagonist Hazel Motes has arrived in Taulkinham (“Town of the Little Cross”).

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor