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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
Honestly i didn't get the hype behind this book, it was poorly written and weird but not in a good way, weird just for the sake of it.. it started very promising but went no where by the end i didn't care at all tbh..
My second reading of O'Connor's first novel. Not as great as I'd remembered from my first reading many years ago, but still good. Didn't find it nearly as affecting and powerful as The Violent Bear It Away, and even more blatantly symbolic.
All I got from this book is that hate is such a close fixation that sometimes it turns to a sick love without awareness.
All I got from this book is that hate is such a close fixation that sometimes it turns to a sick love without awareness.
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"No gorilla in existence, whether in the jungles of Africa or California, or in New York City in the finest apartment in the world, was happier at that moment than this one, whose god had finally rewarded it."
"No gorilla in existence, whether in the jungles of Africa or California, or in New York City in the finest apartment in the world, was happier at that moment than this one, whose god had finally rewarded it."
A reread of a short novel that I first read in college; I’m not sure what year. There are underlines and pencil notations, in my younger hand, throughout the text. The story is the strange, often grotesque, tale of Hazel Motes, a man who is troubled by religion and a few of the strange characters in his world. As I noted on the back cover, (were these my own thoughts, did I copy it from somewhere, was it my teachers’?) “Wise Blood portrays a crazed ex GI fleeing from, then actively opposing and finally embracing by grotesque self-mutilation, the religious belief in which he was raised.” Flannery O’Connor is herself an interesting character, deeply religious (Catholic) in the South of the 1950’s. She suffered with lupus and, like her father, died young. There are also some short stories in this collection and another short novel, which I will also read.
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I knew that since this was Flannery O’Connor that it would be a character-driven and philosophical read. I kinda tried to start reading it a few years ago but didn’t get past the first chapter. This time, I picked it up after several of my students chose to read it for their lit circles.
Published in 1952, this was O’Connor’s first published novel and it is genius. It is satirical and an amazing story that gives the reader an insight into post-WWII rural Southern life. The characters are raw and tragic.
Published in 1952, this was O’Connor’s first published novel and it is genius. It is satirical and an amazing story that gives the reader an insight into post-WWII rural Southern life. The characters are raw and tragic.