Flannery O'Connor's Revelation piece was really interesting to me and I enjoyed it even more after the discussion questions we did today in class. I have found that by doing the discussion questions really helps and broadens my ideas and thinkings of many of the pieces we have read throughout the year.
Our discussion today made me think of my church service and the message that was spoken about this past Sunday. I could make a lot of comparisons, which was really neat. My Pastor spoke about change and how God doesn't care ab0ut your status in your community or your material possesions, but rather your heart and soul, and what you have done with the life He has given you. He also discussed how God doesn't seperate people of different race or color, but that everyone is equal because we are all sons and daighters of God.
O'Connor also touched upon this theme in her piece and I thought it was interesting to see how Mrs. Turpin's perpective of the "white-trash" people changed when she had her Revelation.
Our discussion today made me think of my church service and the message that was spoken about this past Sunday. I could make a lot of comparisons, which was really neat. My Pastor spoke about change and how God doesn't care ab0ut your status in your community or your material possesions, but rather your heart and soul, and what you have done with the life He has given you. He also discussed how God doesn't seperate people of different race or color, but that everyone is equal because we are all sons and daighters of God.
O'Connor also touched upon this theme in her piece and I thought it was interesting to see how Mrs. Turpin's perpective of the "white-trash" people changed when she had her Revelation.
posted by Amy Petersen @ 3:34 PM
5 Comments:
At 5:20 AM,
Julie said…
The sermon this past Sunday you heard definitely relates to our discussions and specifically "Revelation." Your Priest and many religious figures in the world most likely try very hard to get people to be awakened without having an awakening. By this I mean, people should take a step back and look at how they have treated others, or how individuals or groups of people are continually treated, and try to change that. Even if one person is changed, that is important, and hopefully more will have the same realizations.
At 2:52 PM,
Tina said…
I have also found that the discussion questions help me to think about parts of the text that I may have missed while reading the first time...I think a lot of things in the church can be related back to Mrs. Turpin, especially what you said that your pastor said last week about how God doesnt care about your status or your possesions, but he cares about your heart and soul..this is such a great point to bring up because Mrs Turpin is supposed to be this church going christian woman, who really is just a mean judgemental person, and really has none of this morals that we would consider one to have...
At 3:03 PM,
Lish said…
I enjoy that a lot when something I do in class or see somewhere relates to something that I am actually interested in and something I am doing on my own time. The point you made relates to what I was trying to say in class about God not seeing any difference in people, and I am a firm believer in that. Most of the things we do in life have no bearing on things such as religion, as long as in the overall scheme of things you are a "good" person.
At 9:29 PM,
Cassy said…
I love ths discussion questions as well, they help me see our reading in a different context than I would normally look at. I liked how you could compare this to your own church and that this message is still alive today in the spiritual world. everyone is treated the same in God's eyes and O'Connor was an author who brought this to life in her works.
At 5:01 AM,
Dorothy Gavin said…
I also enjoyed the story. I felt that this story had the biggest purpose out of all the ones we've read so far. I felt that Mrs. Turpin's revelation was meaningful to everyone. I feel that manyt people are too quick to judge one another. I feel that many of us in fact need an awakening. I feel that Mrs. Turpin's spiritual awakening was about equality, and God. Equality is something that people have been fighting for decades.
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