Analysis Of Parker's Back
Revelations and Parker’s Back are two great story’s that had some empowering messages about God and Christian faith. Revelations was one of my the best starts with woman with a strong Christian faith, named Mrs. Turpin. In Parker’s Back, the short story starts with a young man who ran away from home to join the navy to become the man he wanted to become. Mrs. Turpin deals with finding a revelation that God has laid out for her and she seeks to find it. Parker is lost and is being changed by a woman he had no idea would have a huge impact on him. Both characters are in a search for the truth about themselves, even if it is overwhelming. These truths can be relatable to many people who are in seek for the truth, like both of these characters.
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O’Connor’s purpose for this short story is that one can live by their own life with their own set of rules, but cannot live it forever. You must find salvation in this world and finding Sarah was his first step to salvation. The second step was crashing into the tree, the, “forbidden tree” he wasn’t supposed to hit, but awaking him like Adam and Eve did. Adam and Eve rushed to hide from God and Parker rushed to the tattoo parlor, O’Connor states, “He only knew that there had been a great change in his life, a leap forward into a worse unknown, and that there had been a great change in his life” (O’Connor 434). After crashing into the tree he rushed to get a tattoo of God’s face on his clear back. O’Connor must have initially left his back clear to set up this scene in the story. O’Connor making it seem an act of God to make Parker tattoo his face on his back, knowing God works in mysterious ways. He rushes to go back to his religious wife, to later be confronted by her and told that he was an idolater. Triggering him to cry like a baby leaning on the pecan tree. O’Connor tells wants us to understand that anyone on this earth can be saved, no matter their standard of living, because it can be
O’Connor’s purpose for this short story is that one can live by their own life with their own set of rules, but cannot live it forever. You must find salvation in this world and finding Sarah was his first step to salvation. The second step was crashing into the tree, the, “forbidden tree” he wasn’t supposed to hit, but awaking him like Adam and Eve did. Adam and Eve rushed to hide from God and Parker rushed to the tattoo parlor, O’Connor states, “He only knew that there had been a great change in his life, a leap forward into a worse unknown, and that there had been a great change in his life” (O’Connor 434). After crashing into the tree he rushed to get a tattoo of God’s face on his clear back. O’Connor must have initially left his back clear to set up this scene in the story. O’Connor making it seem an act of God to make Parker tattoo his face on his back, knowing God works in mysterious ways. He rushes to go back to his religious wife, to later be confronted by her and told that he was an idolater. Triggering him to cry like a baby leaning on the pecan tree. O’Connor tells wants us to understand that anyone on this earth can be saved, no matter their standard of living, because it can be