Wise Blood Paper

            The author of the Wise Blood, Flannery O'Conner, brings a world empty of spirituality by which characters think that they can live life without religious values. The protagonist, Hazel Motes, to escape organized religious all together creates the church without Christ. Throughout the novel, Flannery demonstrates the fact that humans need spiritual truth and purpose. Through different characters in the book such as Hazel, Asa Hawks, among others, Flannery exhibits that spiritual fulfilment cannot be gained through attaining material prosperity, but rather by being redeemed by Christ.

             Through Hazel, Flannery demonstrates Christ's redemption of humanity by describing him as "Christian Malgre Lui" (O'Conner 71). This quote from the novel may seem to be short, but it carries a lot of meaning in the context of the text. These words as used by Flannery means, 'a Christian in spite of himself'' (O'Conner 71). Just like his father, at the age of twelve, Hazel had firmly believed that he would become a preacher a vision that never comes to be since afterwards, he deserted his Christian faith. Hazel decided to start a church where he would preach of new Jesus after he was convinced that he had no soul.

            Nonetheless, all the characters in the novel followed the same track as they experienced a lot of hardship with religion (Han 134). In this sense, it is clear that there was a great misdirected sense of spiritual purpose in the lives of these characters. From this context, we can see that Hazel was as described by the author in the mind that, even after being brought up in Christianity foundation, he turns and changes direction hence changing for good.

            Hazel Motes attempts to fulfil his emptiness with material things. It is demonstrated when he purchases an old Essex. He comments that the vehicle will be "for the most part… a house since he "is not persuaded wherever to be" (O'Conner 69). Hazel attempts to ease his sentiments of relocation with the vehicle; however, it rapidly turns out to be more than basically a home. He flaunts that his car can generally take him where he wanted to be and accepts that responsibility for vehicle makes him a free individual (Han 186). The Essex turns into the stone upon Hazel forms his congregation, both actually and allegorically. He would lecture the excellent news of his very own false Jesus development on the vehicle, and emblematically it speaks to his refusal of Christ. He starts to place misinformed confidence in the two his car and a new religion, accepting they allow him to live in the manner he desires. His life mirrors his new mentality; he utilizes the vehicle to kill a man by running him over. He keeps on depending on his car as his wellspring of opportunity considerably after a specialist breakdown. It is merely after he gets free assistance from a specialist that the vehicle starts to run once more. Rather than getting some distance from with deceptions with appreciation, undeserved benevolence just further incites his self-worth. He whispers to himself; I don't need to bother with any favors from him (Han 124). It is not until he turns over a bank that he understands his mistake and the uselessness of his false religion as merely the manifestation of the individuals who dismiss the genuine God.

             Hazel starts to get some distance from his condition once his vehicle is burned. As he looks into the separation from his eyes to the clear dim sky on the space, he encounters the nearness of God on the planet in such a fantastic way, that he stops opposing what was escaping from as long as he can remember: Christ's beauty (Han 211). After accepting the disclosure of another otherworldly opportunity in Christ, Hazel blinds himself and binds himself with security fencing to cut the desires of the material world and dive further into that opportunity.

Conclusion

            In her novel Wise Blood, Flannery O'Conner presents her subject of the reclamation of humanity through Christ. Accomplishing satisfaction by recycling is troublesome in light of a twisted and misinformed feeling of otherworldly reason discovered in pursuing material thriving. O'Conner exhibits this through Hazel Motes, Enoch Emery, Asa Hawks, and Mrs. Flood. Along these lines, she makes an underlying message that the quest for ordinary riches is fundamental to the otherworldly strife pervasive all through society.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work Cited

Han, John J. Wise Blood: A Re-Consideration. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. Print.

O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. , 2015. Internet resource.