Everything That Rises Must Converge By Flannery O Connor

Everything That Rises Must Converge" is a short story, written by Flannery O'Connor, about Julian and his mother and their way to the Y. One of the main ideas of the background of this story is racism. The short story "Everything That Rises Must Converge", by Flannery O'Connor tells the story of Julian, the main character and his thoughts and feelings toward his mother. Julian is a college graduate who has a fair understating of the world he lives in, and because of this finds difficulty dealing with his mother and her views of the world. The short story by Flannery O'Connor called Everything That Rises Must Converge, is told in the third person point of view. In this story a character by the name of Julian, just recently graduated
Julian's mother has the same views of black people that the slave owners before her believed. She still thinks of black people as inferior to white people. Julian on the other hand is of a new, younger generation, that believes that black people should be treated the same as white people. But Julian feels guilty because of his mother’s racism, so he treats black people differently from white people. In this way, Julian is not completely free from being racist himself. Soon, a tough-looking black woman and her son get on the bus. The black mother sits down next to Julian, and he realizes that she is wearing the exact same hideous hat as his mother. The fact that the black woman on the bus is wearing the same hideous green hat as Julian’s mother links the two women. Julian hopes it will teach his mother a lesson that she and the black woman are not so different, but instead she finds it amusing, she does not believe that black people belong in the same society as white people. Black babies are cute, according to Julian's mother. This is an example of Julian's mother thinking black people are inferior "She thought little Negroes on the whole were cuter than little white