![]() ![]() Rayber, a well-educated schoolteacher, is amazed to see young Francis, whom he had long ago given up on after his kidnapping by Mason. He leaves for the city and gets a ride from a salesman, who drops him off at his Uncle Rayber's house. When Francis wakes from his drunken sleep, he sets the cabin on fire, believing that his great-uncle's body is still inside. Francis starts to dig the grave but suddenly hears a "Voice" in his head telling him to forget about the old man. Prior to his death, Mason asked the now-teenaged Francis to give him a proper Christian burial with a cross marking the grave so that his body would be resurrected on Judgment Day. Mason Tarwater, an outspoken evangelist and self-ordained prophet, dies many years after kidnapping his great-nephew Francis, raising him in a backwoods cabin and preparing him to someday take his place as a prophet. Like most of O'Connor's stories, the novel is filled with Catholic themes and dark images, making it a classic example of Southern Gothic literature. The novel tells the story of Francis Marion Tarwater, a fourteen-year-old boy who is trying to escape the destiny his uncle has prescribed for him: the life of a prophet. The first chapter was originally published as the story "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead" in the journal New World Writing. It is the second and final novel that she published. ![]() The Violent Bear It Away is a 1960 novel by American author Flannery O'Connor. ![]()
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