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A Violent Illumination of Salvation
Flannery O'Connor uses violence to return characters to reality and prepare
them to accept their moment of grace. The New Encyclopedia Britannica
defines grace as the "spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine or the
divine influence operating in man for his regeneration and sanctification"
(401). At any cost, a soul must find salvation. O'Connor states, "In my
own stories I have found that ....
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.... the soul is prepared for its necessary
illumination by the Holy Spirit" (73). The grandmother in "A Good Man is
Hard to Find" and Rudy Turpin in "Revelation" is each convinced that she is
a lady of elevated status. When threatened by superior beings, their self-
imposed facades fall. Inherent human weaknesses are not tolerated and the
faulty soul is damned or violently returned to reality (Walters 72). In
The Habit of Being, O'Connor emphasizes ....
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