The Temple Of The Holy Ghost Flannery O Connor Analysis

God’s Image: The Story Through O’Connor’s The Temple of the Holy Ghost and Parker’s Back. Flannery O’Connor, a Catholic writer, shows more religion in her writing than most. She seems to put the reader in the narrator’s position because we are all face with trials and tribulations. She seems to test the characters and as result they have some extreme consequences for the choices they have made. This is the best part of her writing and a judgmental flaw. It seems that O’Connor is harsh on women, her writing tends to hold women to a higher standard to man. Especially, the characters in her stories that think they are better than everyone else. There is a certain way that a woman is supposed to “carry” herself and present herself to God without

The child wants to be treat like an adult, but she has not made it to puberty like her cousins, Susan and Joanne. The mother wants to keep the girls safely entertain, so they wouldn’t wander around. At the age of fourteen, girls start to ask mature questions and wonder about boys. This is easily avoided when the child’s mother said, “They’re only farm boys. These girls would turn up their noses at them” (463). By the child’s mother saying this she is expressing that the girls would be safe because they are stuck up and they are afraid of boys. The child constantly says she is smarter than her two cousin, and on many occasions is proved right because she is smart for her age, when she is in the bathroom explaining what the boys look like. The girls ask the child how she knows so much about men and the child says she seen them around. When its time for Susan and Joanne to go to the fair, the child wants to go, but not with her cousins. The bedroom scene is mostly the child regretting not going, so she is fantasying about the “Paradise of Lions”. After the fair, the cousins come back and tell her about the “freak”. Although, the child tricked them into telling her because they thought the child knew how rabbits were born. They told her about the “freak” and how it said, “God made me this way and if you laugh he may strike you the same way. This is the way he wanted me to be and I ain’t disputing his way. I’m showing you because I got to make the best of it” (469). The “freak” showed its body to the audience, and that showed its confidents and how it was comfortable in its own skin. That you must make the best out of what God gave you because you were made in his image. In Parker’s Back, this story shows what happens when you don’t except someone for who they really