Sacrifice In Flannery O Connor's Analysis

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In life, there are certain responsibilities that comes with being part of a family. In some cases its sacrifice of personal needs or happiness. In others, it is caring about them no matter how irritating they can be. When out shopping, Julian’s mother bought herself a new hat. Thinking the hat was making Julian more distraught she tried to return it to their house. She states strickenly that she was going to return it, for she “was out of [her] head. [She could] pay the gas bill with that seven-fifty” (O’Connor 3). She bought this item with amusement and glee. She loved the hat, but her love for her son out weighed that. She noticed the dark look on his face and needed to remedy the situation. She was sacrificing her own small piece of personal …show more content…

She did all she could to give him a good life. Despite the struggles, “she had brought him up successfully and had sent him to college and that he had turned out so well- good looking ([since] her teeth had gone unfilled so that his could be straightened), intelligent… and with a future ahead of him” …show more content…

She hoped that if he could be successful, then she would win. She would have been successful too. And despite all the resentment Julian held for his mother, He did love and care for her. After the confrontation with the other mother her blood pressure soared and caused her to have a stroke. Almost if Julian could see something taking her and “she fell to the pavement... [as] [h]e dashed forward and fell to her side… crying” (16). He tried to run and call for help but there was not much he could do. He watched her pass away practically in his arms, and she never got to see her sacrifices come to fruition. He is guilty, he wanted her to learn her lesson and where her true place in the world was, not for her place to be in the ground. He just wanted her to learn that people were equal and though they had different skin color or backgrounds, they all end up in the same place. He failed his responsibility to take care of her and watch out for her and that is what hurt him the most. That is why the heaviest weight that a person shall ever bear, is the responsibility to their

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