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Today in AP Senior English

Today in AP Senior English. Wrap up discussion of “The Guest” Background on Flannery O’Connor Discuss “Greenleaf”. Homework. Read “Araby” by James Joyce (437) & complete a story card Continue working on Technique Analysis topic selection

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Today in AP Senior English

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  1. Today in AP Senior English Wrap up discussion of “The Guest” Background on Flannery O’Connor Discuss “Greenleaf”

  2. Homework • Read “Araby” by James Joyce (437) & complete a story card • Continue working on Technique Analysis topic selection • Continue reviewing Short Story unit – “Araby” is the last story of the unit 

  3. Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) • Born Savannah, GA to Catholic parents • Began writing and illustrating books @ 6 • Moved to a dairy farm her father inherited in Milledgeville (mom’s hometown) @ 12 • Southern Gothic • Decaying South; damned people • Master of the short story form • 1950: Diagnosed with Lupus Andalusia Farm – the dairy farm O’Connor’s mother ran after O’Connor’s father’s death from Lupus.

  4. Major Works • 1952: Wise Blood – young religious enthusiast tries to found a church without Christ • 1955: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Other Stories • 1960: The Violent Bear It Away – young minister becomes a prophet and madman • 1965: posthumous publication of Everything That Rises Must Converge (collection of short stories)

  5. “‘I write every day for at least two hours,’ she said in an interview in 1952, ‘and I spend the rest of my time largely in the society of ducks.’” • “She described her work in general as being about the action of grace in the world, about those moments in which grace, usually in the form of violence, descends on her comically complacent characters, sometimes opening their eyes to an appalling realization, sometimes killing them.” • “If her characters often emerged as displaced persons, it was because she felt that all human beings are displaced persons standing in need of divine grace.” O’Connor at Andalusia Farm with her ducks. She also raised peacocks.

  6. References • http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/flannery.htm • http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwelf/elffoc.html • http://mediaspecialist.org/occountry.html • http://www.andalusiafarm.org/

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