Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor Connection Study Guide
Uploaded by JosephEspinoza12 on Feb 07, 2017
Joseph Espinoza
Mr. Quintero
AP English Lit, Period 5
25 January 2017
Visual Connection
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Tsitoghdzyan, Tigran. “Mirror” Visionary Artistry Magazine. Web.
Tigran Tsitoghdzyan’s notable “Mirror” collection is famous for its underlying meaning. The above capture is meant to depict that there is no hiding what reflects in the mirror. This idea of portraying inevitably who you really are is able to successfully connect with the novel Wise Blood. It first connects with O'Connor's theme of finding self-intuition within a person and understanding who they really are. This visual simply does this by Tigran wanting to convey the truth to someone’s character deep within them and show a person’s true colors. This picture captures a woman trying to cover her face but her image beneath is still showing. The novel and the visual both prove examples of the monumental surrealistic movement of the 20th century which was defined as removing the preceding boundaries of reality and limitation. Society in the 20th century was beginning to alter from a set single standard place where men and women had vague and general roles in the community to a more modern and individualistic system. Both the picture and novel depict this by expanding these regards and providing creative works toward a person’s self-worth.
Furthermore, this picture also correlates to the critical theory of Formalism that the novel can relate to as well. Formalism is the understanding of what a work is trying to teach or provide. In this case the woman in the visual is an example of not being able to suppress who she really is and it serves as a message to modern society to acknowledge that they can’t hide themselves so just show it.
Nonfiction Connection
JUNE. 22, 2011.
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
Jose Antonio Vargas
One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said. (“It might be cold there.”) When I arrived at the Philippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her, my aunt and a family friend, I was introduced to a man I’d never seen. They told me he was my uncle. He held my hand as I boarded an airplane for the first time. It was 1993, and I was 12.
My mother wanted to give me a better life, so she sent me thousands of miles away to live with...