Flannery O"Connor's works are influenced by her real life. ... (O"Connor, 459) He thinks that himself and Christ were both punished for crimes they didn't commit. ... I think O"Connor used grotesque irony in this story. ... "Everything That Rises Must Converge" I think that this was the tricky story. ... Because O"Connor grew up in the south she probably relates her self to the mother, but not to that extreme. ...

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