In the text from the short story, Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor discussed a relationship between an adolescence and his mother. The mother needed to lose weight because of her blood pressure so she begin to take classes. The son took it upon himself to take his mother to classes because he knew she had done so much for him. The lady was getting older and had a hard time of making decisions often. She could not decide on a hat she wanted to wear so her son notified her that everything looked alright. At the end of the short story the lady became weak and could not take anything else. This short story tries to point out events that may go unnoticed until it is too late. The mother tried to talk to her child, but he did not acknowledge her and show her that he had an interest in anything she was trying to tell him. The boy trying to do what he can to make sure she did not annoy him or get in the way showed his feelings towards his mother. He did not notice she was letting go.
I like how Shakayla pointed out that sometimes we wait until is too late to notice what we have around us, like our parents. In my personal opinion, Julian was acting rude towards his mother and did not understand that she was going thru a hard time, also he was always arguing with her even thought she was old and not capable of making good decision. Julian tried to teach her a lesson without noticing that the only one that needed to learn something was him, not the mother; because she is right when she says that “Julian knows nothing about life”.
ReplyDeleteI honestly do agree with you on what you said about the things that go unoticed. In this case the son didn't have any emotional connection to his mother anymore so he didn't even bother to care and would get easily annoyed about the things she would do and say. Unfortunately, the mother had to pass in order for him to realize that even the little things that we think aren't as important can be the most important thing and maybe even the last memory we have if the person
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