Love Always Converge
Flannery O' Conner was born in Georgia. Her Southern Catholic views on racial issues and religion gives O' Conner her name. She continued to express her views on the decaying south up to her death. " Everything That Rises Must Converge" was one of O'Connor's last pieces before lupus took her life. The title" Everything That Rises Must Converge" is borrowed from the works of Teilhard de Chardin. "The religion philosopher explains the ideal of everything and everyone will be joined at the end of the geologic time." (179) The author uses this theme to explain in the story how the old south and the new south emerge creating one south. The author's agenda in the short story is to explore the possibilities of symbolism using a mother (old south) and son's (new south) relationship in the process. The relationships represents how different one views are. These views are converged by love.
The story centers on Julian and his mother, Ms. Cheeny's weekly trip......
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