Overdue Wise Blood
The sky was like a piece of thin polished silver pg. 68
She had a stained white bathing suit that fit her like a sack. pg. 82
They were in a long set of steel cages like Alcatraz Penitentiary pg. 82
his heart moving so fast it was like one of those motorcycles pg. 83
That thang looks like a hawg bladder. pg. 136
On page 16 Hazel says he wouldn't believe in Jesus even if he asked. At the outset of the book I got the impression that Hazel was like a young child that needs a nap. The more they scream and protest the more likely it is that they need one. In the same way I thought that the more Hazel protested believing in Christ, the more that he actually did. On page 63 in an attempt to get Hazel to obey his mother tells him that "Jesus died to redeem you", to which Hazel replied, "I never ast him". In this second example he is literally an angry child. I think that one of the reasons that he is sympathetic to readers is that he is like the prodigal son, even though he never finds his way back home to Christ.
One other interesting quote is on page 106 Hazel is asked if his Church without Christ is Protestant, to which Hazel replies that it is. Hazel is protesting the Christian belief, but is this a play on words by Flannery O'Connor?
She had a stained white bathing suit that fit her like a sack. pg. 82
They were in a long set of steel cages like Alcatraz Penitentiary pg. 82
his heart moving so fast it was like one of those motorcycles pg. 83
That thang looks like a hawg bladder. pg. 136
On page 16 Hazel says he wouldn't believe in Jesus even if he asked. At the outset of the book I got the impression that Hazel was like a young child that needs a nap. The more they scream and protest the more likely it is that they need one. In the same way I thought that the more Hazel protested believing in Christ, the more that he actually did. On page 63 in an attempt to get Hazel to obey his mother tells him that "Jesus died to redeem you", to which Hazel replied, "I never ast him". In this second example he is literally an angry child. I think that one of the reasons that he is sympathetic to readers is that he is like the prodigal son, even though he never finds his way back home to Christ.
One other interesting quote is on page 106 Hazel is asked if his Church without Christ is Protestant, to which Hazel replies that it is. Hazel is protesting the Christian belief, but is this a play on words by Flannery O'Connor?
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