Author: Please post any questions you want to ask. respondents: please provide constructive feedback for the presentation.
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Ashley,
This is a very interesting topic, and one that I feel we did not cover enough in class, so I was very interested to hear about it.
I kept thinking of The Violent Bear it Away, and I was wondering if you intended to mention it at all. There I think we see the betrayal and seduction (not sexually, of course) of children by the old Tarwater who coaxes them to baptism. The adult Rayber clearly sees this as betrayal, I think, and what is interesting here is that the betrayer would not consider his actions anything but righteous and merely what had to be done here.
That's just an idea. The paper seems very good. I do like how you are looking at the function of betrayal in the stories and what it might mean for the big picture.
I agree with Brad about using Violent Bear it Away maybe if you need more information, I think that the idea of betrayal and it dangling the moment of grace topic is present within the Violent Bear it Away, not only with Tarwater but also with Bishop and the drowning done by Tarwater.
I thought that your analysis of "Good Country People" on Hulga and how she incompasses all of the charactersitics that you were looking at was also very interesting. Also I think that the idea of betrayal was not discussed enough in the "Life You Save", and I think that it was a very necessary topic since he just up and leaves her in the diner.
I think it is really interesting that O'Conner depicts betrayal in many of her stories and wonder why it is such a prominent theme especially when it tied into stories with the dangling moment of grace, and I always wondered why she does this.
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Ashley,
This is a very interesting topic, and one that I feel we did not cover enough in class, so I was very interested to hear about it.
I kept thinking of The Violent Bear it Away, and I was wondering if you intended to mention it at all. There I think we see the betrayal and seduction (not sexually, of course) of children by the old Tarwater who coaxes them to baptism. The adult Rayber clearly sees this as betrayal, I think, and what is interesting here is that the betrayer would not consider his actions anything but righteous and merely what had to be done here.
That's just an idea. The paper seems very good. I do like how you are looking at the function of betrayal in the stories and what it might mean for the big picture.
I agree with Brad about using Violent Bear it Away maybe if you need more information, I think that the idea of betrayal and it dangling the moment of grace topic is present within the Violent Bear it Away, not only with Tarwater but also with Bishop and the drowning done by Tarwater.
I thought that your analysis of "Good Country People" on Hulga and how she incompasses all of the charactersitics that you were looking at was also very interesting. Also I think that the idea of betrayal was not discussed enough in the "Life You Save", and I think that it was a very necessary topic since he just up and leaves her in the diner.
I think it is really interesting that O'Conner depicts betrayal in many of her stories and wonder why it is such a prominent theme especially when it tied into stories with the dangling moment of grace, and I always wondered why she does this.
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