Post Number 5

Now that you are climbing into your second book (or the equivalent), what thematic or stylistic threads do you notice across the texts? In other words, you are ready to start forming potential thesis statements for your American Author paper.

Primarily what I have noticed about Flannery O'connor is that she was a devout catholic.
Many people have told me this on my quest to understand her writing, but this seemingly random piece of information is vital in understanding all of her stories. Her stories usually involve some irredeemably moronic individual who meets their death by the end of each story. Their deaths are usually ironic or metaphorical for other religions, and are supposed to serve as basic morals.
In short, yes. I'm getting vague images of what my final paper is going to be like. I haven't fleshed them out or formulated a thesis yet, but I'll have something by the time I finish reading Wise Blood.