OConnors Everything That Rises Must Converge :: Everything That Rises Must Converge

OConnors Ein truththing That Rises Must ConvergeEverything That Rises Must Converge, in a comprehend sums up OConnors overall philosophy or theology that is, that everything which rises above the subaltern concerns of earth, above materialism, must converge somewhatwhere in an opinionl realm, that is, Heaven. The story concerns Julian and his mother and a series of misunderstandings between them. We find that Julians mother is overweight, rude to other people, particularly to Black people, and very judgmental. Julian in turn spends a lot of his time judging his mother. The story focuses on a charabanc trip that Julian and his mother are victorious to the Ys reducing class, and what happens in the course of that trip. During the bus trip, Julians mother openly sympathises with some other white women who dont like Negroes on the bus. When a Black human beings scrambles on the bus, Julian attempts to be friendly with him and in so doing sees himself as morally superior to his m other. We see here that Julian is being very judgmental. For instance, we find Julian entertaining these thoughts after the man has got off the bus He imagined his mother lying desperately ill and his being capable to secure only a Negro doctor for her. He toyed with that idea for a few minutes and then dropped it for a momentary flock of himself participating as a sympathiser in a go to demonstration. This was possible but he did not linger with it. Instead, he approached the eventual(prenominal) horror. He brought home a beautiful suspiciously Negroid charr. mend yourself, he said. There is nothing you can do about it. This is the woman I have chosen. (15)It is just shortly after this fantasy that a very large Black woman and her little boy get on and Julian is somewhat delighted because the Negro woman is in truth wearing the same hat as his mother, a hat that he has made fun of earlier in the story. Julian reacts as follows His eyeball widened.The vision of the two hats, i dentical, broke upon him with the radiance of a brilliant sunrise. His panorama was suddenly lit with joy. He could not believe that Fate had gourmandize upon his mother such a lesson. He gave a loud laugh so she would look at him and see that he saw. She turned her eye on him slowly. The blue in them seemed to have turned a bruised purple.