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    A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor's "Life You Save May Be Your Own"
    A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor's "Life You Save May Be Your Own"
    A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor's "Life You Save May Be Your Own"
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    A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor's "Life You Save May Be Your Own"

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    A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor's "Life You Save May Be Your Own," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535827416
    A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor's "Life You Save May Be Your Own"

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      A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor's "Life You Save May Be Your Own" - Gale

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      The Life You Save May Be Your Own

      Flannery O’Connor

      1953

      Introduction

      Like much of Flannery O’Connor’s short fiction, The Life You Save May Be Your Own is set in the American South and contains characters whose most notable feature seems to be their ordinariness. Through imagery, dialogue, and moments of revelation, O’Connor explores the themes of morality and religion, both frequent concerns in her work. The story evoked critical praise upon its publication in the Kenyon Review in the spring of 1953. Within the sparse, apparently simple plot of the story, O’Connor constructs a world torn between renewal and emptiness, natural beauty and crass materialism, compassion and cruelty. In the end, O’Connor’s protagonist must choose between these extremes and attempt to experience the grace of God’s love.

      Author Biography

      Flannery O’Connor’s parents had an effect on their only daughter in ways that were both fruitful and tragic. O’Connor was born in 1925 to a prominent Georgia family of devout Roman Catholics—an anomaly in the largely Protestant South. This intensely religious milieu played a major role in O’Connor’s evolution as a writer. She attended schools in Savannah and Milledgeville and confronted tragedy at age fifteen when her father died of lupus, a degenerative disease which attacks the body’s vital organs. O’Connor later entered Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College), majored in social sciences, and spent her spare time writing and drawing for student publications. She began writing and publishing short fiction in earnest when she entered the graduate writing program at Iowa State University, which she completed in

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