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Exclusion And Reality In Flannery O Connor's Night Face Up
“Night Face Up” is a fiction about a man goes through a motorcycle accident and the combination of dream and reality at the hospital. He feels uncomfortable because of the medical treatments, but the strange thing is that he dreams of a savage world where he comes from Motecas. Acolytes of Aztecs are looking for him and they want to kill him, so he has to run to avoid them. The philosophical assertion in this story is Aristotle’s hylomorphism because both reality and the dream are alive to the protagonist, and it is the soul that makes them alive. I will further explain this in the second paragraph and give the conclusion in the third paragraph. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist rides his motorcycle on the road that he should
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