28 Mar 2007
Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.''
This is an academic article, available through the SHU library. You will need to look it up there. (Demonstrating that you can find an article in the library is part of the assignment.)
I suggest that you print it out so you can mark up the text.
Desmond, John. "Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 56 (2004): 129-37.
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Ultimate Sacrifice
Excerpt: What the Misfit fears is the mystery of love, the demands of love which the grandmother mysteriously responded to when faced with the criminal's suffering, and her own impending death. Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' --...
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Tracked: March 26, 2007 8:41 PM
Excerpt: What the Misfit fears is the mystery of love, the demands of love which the grandmother mysteriously responded to when faced with the criminal's suffering, and her own impending death. Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' --...
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March to Your Own Drummer
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Thus the Misfit lives as neither believer nor unbeliever in the grey world of uncertainty, of desire for truth, and of longing for some...
Weblog: MatthewHenderson
Tracked: March 26, 2007 9:34 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Thus the Misfit lives as neither believer nor unbeliever in the grey world of uncertainty, of desire for truth, and of longing for some...
Weblog: MatthewHenderson
Tracked: March 26, 2007 9:34 PM
Burden Buildup Can't be Transferred
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Shooting the Grandmother can be seen, in part, as the Misfit's spontaneous attempt to transfer his own felt degradation to another as a means...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: March 26, 2007 10:46 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Shooting the Grandmother can be seen, in part, as the Misfit's spontaneous attempt to transfer his own felt degradation to another as a means...
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Tracked: March 26, 2007 10:46 PM
Not the Grandmother Again!
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) What the Misfit fears is the mystery of love, the demands of love which the grandmother mysteriously responded to when faced with the criminal's...
Weblog: MargaretJones
Tracked: March 26, 2007 11:25 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) What the Misfit fears is the mystery of love, the demands of love which the grandmother mysteriously responded to when faced with the criminal's...
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Tracked: March 26, 2007 11:25 PM
Don't eat that apple!
Excerpt: Subsequently, he has "forgotten" what he has done wrong, yet feels the weight of some indefinable oringinal sin. Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 12:46 AM
Excerpt: Subsequently, he has "forgotten" what he has done wrong, yet feels the weight of some indefinable oringinal sin. Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 12:46 AM
Do You Believe?
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Misfit lives as neither believer nor unbeliever in the grey world of uncertainty, of desire for truth, and of longing for some transcendent meani...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 11:39 AM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Misfit lives as neither believer nor unbeliever in the grey world of uncertainty, of desire for truth, and of longing for some transcendent meani...
Weblog: JaraWhite
Tracked: March 27, 2007 11:39 AM
Hey, they're human!
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 3:49 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: CheraPupi
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Aquinas - Law and Goodness
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A central principle of O'Conner's Catholic theology, expressed by Thomas Aquinas... is that evil always appeares as a good to the one who commits...
Weblog: HallieGeary
Tracked: March 27, 2007 5:03 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A central principle of O'Conner's Catholic theology, expressed by Thomas Aquinas... is that evil always appeares as a good to the one who commits...
Weblog: HallieGeary
Tracked: March 27, 2007 5:03 PM
The Misfit needs HELP!
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "For O'Connor, such a power is divine grace, made available through Christ's death and resurrection. The Misfit acknowledges this, yet refuses to ...
Weblog: DerekTickle
Tracked: March 27, 2007 8:41 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "For O'Connor, such a power is divine grace, made available through Christ's death and resurrection. The Misfit acknowledges this, yet refuses to ...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 8:41 PM
Reflection Paper!
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Reflection Paper for Desmond's Article...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 9:22 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Reflection Paper for Desmond's Article...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 9:22 PM
The Ultimate Good
Excerpt: "For the Misfit, evil may, in the end, through the grace of charity, bring out his ultimate good." Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 10:37 PM
Excerpt: "For the Misfit, evil may, in the end, through the grace of charity, bring out his ultimate good." Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 10:37 PM
Sticking up for the Misfit.
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 11:24 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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The Misfit Knows He's Wrong
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 11:59 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Tracked: March 27, 2007 11:59 PM
No Pleasure But Meanness?
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but thow everything away and follow Him, and if He didn't,...
Weblog: BethanyMerryman
Tracked: March 28, 2007 12:27 AM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but thow everything away and follow Him, and if He didn't,...
Weblog: BethanyMerryman
Tracked: March 28, 2007 12:27 AM
Desmond Gives Grandmother too Much Credit
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "O'Connor explains nothing of what happens in the grandmother's mind and heart to bring her to this touch of kinship with the criminal, except...
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Tracked: March 28, 2007 1:20 AM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "O'Connor explains nothing of what happens in the grandmother's mind and heart to bring her to this touch of kinship with the criminal, except...
Weblog: LorinSchumacher
Tracked: March 28, 2007 1:20 AM
Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The Grandmother considers herself a good Christian woman, i.e. a lady of fine manners and disposition, and a believer in Jesus to boot. But...
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Tracked: March 28, 2007 1:20 AM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The Grandmother considers herself a good Christian woman, i.e. a lady of fine manners and disposition, and a believer in Jesus to boot. But...
Weblog: CoreyStruss
Tracked: March 28, 2007 1:20 AM
See No Evil; Hear No Evil; Speak No Evil; Do No Evil
Excerpt: The Misfit is caught between absurdity and faith. He rejects belief in Christ yet he recognizes that a world in which actions and consequences cannot be made sense of leads ultimately to a world in which logical distinctions between good...
Weblog: A Storybook of Quotes
Tracked: March 28, 2007 6:12 AM
Excerpt: The Misfit is caught between absurdity and faith. He rejects belief in Christ yet he recognizes that a world in which actions and consequences cannot be made sense of leads ultimately to a world in which logical distinctions between good...
Weblog: A Storybook of Quotes
Tracked: March 28, 2007 6:12 AM
Sweet Little Old Lady? Yeah, Right...
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Her lying and selfishness lead directly to the accident and the subsequent murder of her family. Her self-image as a "good" woman is stripped...
Weblog: BethanyBouchard
Tracked: April 1, 2007 1:50 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Her lying and selfishness lead directly to the accident and the subsequent murder of her family. Her self-image as a "good" woman is stripped...
Weblog: BethanyBouchard
Tracked: April 1, 2007 1:50 PM
Reflection
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: BethanyBouchard
Tracked: April 1, 2007 2:39 PM
Excerpt: Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: BethanyBouchard
Tracked: April 1, 2007 2:39 PM
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