O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"

My entry is titled Mr. Shiftlet makes me hot (and I don't mean aroused)!-Common, you know that you're interested!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/02/mr_shiftlet_makes_me_hot_and_i.html

"A body and a spirit. The body, lady, is like a house: it don't go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like an automobile: always on the move, always..."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2008/02/fun_fun_funtil_her_daddy_took.html

Gather 'round for a yarn o' angels in disguise 'nd devils waitin' by the wayside o' life, me hearties.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/02/angels_at_wayside_diners_and_d.html

“ ‘She looks like an angel of Gawd,’ he murmured” (66).
“ ‘My mother was an angel of Gawd,’ Mr. Shiftlet said in a very strained voice” (67).

Enter if you dare: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2008/02/i_spy_a_foil.html

“’It’s nothing so sweet,’ Mr. Shiftlet continued, ‘as a boy’s mother. She taught him his first prayers at her knee, she give him love when no other would, she told him what was right and what wasn’t, and she seen that he done the right thing. Son,’ he said, ‘I never rued a day in my life like the one I rued when I left that old mother of mine’” (O’Connor 61).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/02/searching_for_god_in_all_the_w.html

"His left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it (O'Connor 47)... He said he had fought and bled in the Arm Service of his country" (O'Connor 52).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/02/lost_an_arm_in_the_arm_service.html

“The girl was nearly thirty but because of her innocence it was impossible to guess.” (O’Connor, “The Life you Save May Be Your Own” pg 55)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/02/the_color_of_innocence.html

"The River" Flannery O'Connor

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndreaNestler/2008/02/the_riverflannery_oconnor.html

"You'd be getting a perment house and a deep well and the most innocent girl in the world. You don't need no money" (O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" p.57).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EthanShepley/2008/02/in_the_desert.html

"'The law,' Mr. Shiftlet said and spit. 'It's the law that don't satisfy me'" (O'Connor 58).

Because you love The Rolling Stones and Flannery O'Connor, you want to read my blog entry:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/02/i_cant_get_no_satisfaction_fro.html

Wow - the words are ringing too true.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2008/02/el150_i_just_came_from_faith_c.html

"In the darkness, Mr. Shiftlet's smile stretched like a weary snake waking up by a fire." (The Life You Save May Be Your Own, pg 57)

"The boy bent over her and stared at the long pink-gold hair and the half-shut sleeping eyes. Then he looked up and stared at Mr. Shiftlet. 'She looks like an angel of Gawd,' he murmured...."

For more angels of the almighty Gawd:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/02/angel_of_gawd.html

"'A body and a spirit,' he repeated. 'The body, lady, is like a house: it don't go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile, always on the move, always...'" (O'Conner 57).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RichelleDodaro/2008/02/always_unsatisfied_with_this_b.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/02/whats_a_man_made_of.html

"He told the old woman then that all most people were interested in was money, but he asked what a man was made for. He asked her if a man was made for money, or what. He asked her what she thought she was made for but she didn't answer, she only sat rocking and wondered if a one-armed man could put a new roof on her garden house" (O'Connor, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, page 57)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DeanaKubat/2008/02/wanna_go_for_a_swim.html

i wish it was summer. i miss the warmth. and the perfect blue of a pool....

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
Osiris and the Underworld??
AND JESUS!
COULD THIS BE TO GOOD TO BE TRUE?!?!?!?

read if you dare:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/02/indiana_jones_osiris_and_jesus.html

"After a few minutes there was a guffawing peal of thunder from behind the fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of Mr. Shiftlet's car. Very quickly he stepped on the gas and with his stump sticking out the window he raced the galloping shower into Mobile."

-From Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" page 62 from A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/02/fate_and_raindrops.html

"The daughter, a large girl in a short blue organdy dress, saw him all at once and jumped up and began to stomp and point and made excited speechless sounds" (O'Connor 48).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/02/dont_just_come_out_and_say_it.html