Everything That Rises Must Converge
In the season finally Jacob is reading a book right before Locke falls from a building, the book he is reading is Flannery O’Connor’s Everything that rises must converge.
In the story after which the work is titled, human weaknesses are exposed and important moral questions are explored through everyday situations. Critics view the story as a prime example of O’Connor’s literary skills and moral views. In the story an arrogant young man takes a fateful bus trip with his bigoted mother. The mother doesn’t like to ride the recently racially integrated bus alone. Their relationship shows tensions when a black mother and son enters the bus. Through irony, the blindness and ignorance of the characters are exposed. The title Everything That Rises Must Converge refers to an underlying religious message central to her work: aiming to expose the sinful nature of humanity that often goes unrecognized in the modern, secular world.
Just thought I’d put that out there, it’s pretty interesting he’s reading it and it’s basically what’s happening on the island.
Black and White?
Not black and white, but aiming to expose the sinful nature of humanity that often goes unrecognized in the modern, secular world.
well actually, there is a lot of black and white. I mean, the whole story is about racial integration basically, and literally black people vs. white people.