ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Randomness

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 110
• Professor: Ruth Panofsky

Document Summary

Everything that rises must converge by flannery o"conner. Refers back to an earlier period in american history. Interested in tragedy (always effected by the comic/ironic elements in life) Uses as a way to show how life so random. Based on philosophical work called the philosophy of man . The human race is moving from diversity to this ultimate unity . Everybody needs to be open in order to unity to occur. O"conner uses this story in an ironic way (white women and black women converge) Achieved through fascinating bringing together of difference. A purple hat: costs a lot of money; she didn"t have much money to spend. Her doctor had told julian"s mother that she must lose twenty pounds on account of her blood pressure, so on wednesday nights julian had to take her downtown on the bus for a reducing class at the y. Julian had to take her on the bus (obligation)