A Profound Southern American Catholic Novelist, By...

A profound Southern American Catholic novelist, Flannery O’Connor concealed her true spiritual intentions into many of her grotesque stories. Many of her writings involve a tale of a displaced person that is eventually lead to redemption and mercy from God. Through plenty of hardships and mistakes, her protagonists endure a spiritual transformation that leads her characters into enlightenment. O’Connor weaves blatant instances of sacramentality, mediation, communion, mercy, and human dignity into the development of each of her stories. O’Conner revealed sacramentality in thousands of examples throughout her literary marks of genius. In â€Å"Wise Blood,† Hazel’s car exposed sacramentality as a symbol of himself. The car’s beat-up, rugged state and unreliable features mirrored Hazel’s own broken-down spirituality. When the car broke down on the side of the road, Hazel proclaimed, â€Å"This is a good car, Mister! This car can take me a nywhere I wanna go!† (film). He argued that the â€Å"well-built† car could not break down due to its prime initial quality. His connection with the car resembled a part of himself. The car served as Hazel’s longed-for home, podium, and sanctuary; the vehicle even provided him a place to sleep. Also, he found a homebased security atop of his car when he preached about the â€Å"Church Without Christ.† Hazel even declared, â€Å"Nobody with a good car needs to be justified† (film). He used his car to steer himself, literally, away from the truth of God. Hazel tried to