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Mini Arguments The sarcastic tone Gabriel Garcia Marquez exploits in the story of the “spider woman,” a rebellious “child” who had “sneaked” out of her “parents house” to attend a “dance;” after having danced all night “without permission” she was on her way “back” through the “woods” when a frightening “thunderclap” split the sky into “two” producing a “lightning bolt” that had transformed her into a “spider” described as a “frightful tarantula the size of a ram” and with a “head of a sad maiden” whose only nourishment came from the “meatballs” that benevolent souls chose to “toss into her mouth;” a “spectacle” like this described as full of “human truth” and a “fearful lesson” had the “angel” dismantle of his true nature; with his “miracle consolations” which had been the joke of the town, ruined his reputation and thus let the “misfortune” tale of the “spider woman” pulverize him offering a lesson for children that adults become fascinated about a particular way of upbringing or believe.

In the story of Revelation, Flannery O’Conner indicates that self-righteousness can cause blindness about oneself; Mrs. Turpin builds up an ugly image of herself by being frivolous of others; by building her barrier toward everyone in a creative way she buried everyone in it; by being in the doctor’s office waiting for Claud to be diagnose on what is wrong with him but not her, she ended up being diagnosed; her incident caused her to realize that her views of everyone was actual views of herself; she had come to realization trying to understand why it was happening to her, in her trying to understand she was seeking for absolution/redemption; she was a “church” lady—church being a place you can hide who you really are—had everything and God knew she uses good; she was ready to face herself or change her ways when she heard the “voices of the souls” and changed her mind and ignored her epiphany creating the fact that she is so full of herself by not accepting her true

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