![]() ![]() ![]() She managed to incorporate what was going on in the South with integration and civil rights without making it the focus of her writing. She was deeply religious when those around her were becoming more and more secular. Although she never considered herself liberal or political, she wrote during a time of extreme social change. She died in 1964 when she was just 39 of lupus, the same disease that killed her father. Written in 1961, it won Flannery O'Connor the O'Henry Award in 1963 and was the headlining story in her posthumous 1965 collection, Everything That Rises Must Converge.īorn in Georgia, O'Connor had a brief but impressive life writing stories, novels, essays, and letters-not to mention illustrating cartoons. "Everything That Rises Must Converge" is a story of mothers and sons on both sides of the black/white divide. Mix it all up with a spoonful of molasses-thick tension, and you get … a shocking situation involving a bus, a penny, and a very, very large purse. Add in a heaping cup of the Civil Rights Movement. Take one tumultuous mother-son relationship. Everything That Rises Must Converge Introduction ![]()
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