The Author’s Work As Context (5 pages) Flannery O’Connor wrote that “in my own stories I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace” and that violence “is the extreme situation that best reveals what we are essentially.” Discuss the three stories by O’Connor in this chapter in light of these statements about violence. What “moments of grace” do you see? Can you assess what O’Connor considers the essence of humanity (“what we are”)? You must include a work-cited page in MLA format.
