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A 7 page research paper that discusses Flannery O'Connor's use of comic imagery in several of her short stories. The writer refers to short stories: "The Artificial Nigger," "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and "Good Country People." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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latter-day Swift, she lampoons the vices and follies of our age, especially our self-contentment" (Wood, 1988, p. 80). However, OConnor is more than a moralist who seeks to "slap the
world" to its senses, her comic vision is grounded in theological concepts of redemption, as she is more concerned with "belief than morality" (Wood, 1988). However, it is also
true that OConnors humor often ceases to be funny, in the most obvious sense, precisely became it is so concerned with pain and redemption. In her story, "The
Artificial Nigger," she pictures a boy, Nelson, being indoctrinated into the intricacies of proper Southern bigotry by his "Grandfather Head." The family resides in north Georgia hill country where black
faces are rare, so the grandfather takes the boy to Atlanta to show him how to spot and "handle" "niggers." It is clear from the beginning of the story
that the grandfathers ulterior motive is to teach the boy to be totally reliant on him as his guardian. The grandfather warns Nelson that "niggers come in all shades of
black, but still Nelson fails to spot his first "nigger." The grandfather points out a light-skinned, dignified man, and asks the boy what he has seen, and the boy replies
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselves in front of a house that has
an ancient, fading "lawn boy" standing out front. This "artificial nigger" is meant to stand for white domination and black servility, precisely the values that the grandfather wished to impart
to the boy; however, standing in front of this ridiculous figure the old man has an epiphany of understanding. Instead of representing one of the "carefree, watermelon-eating darkies that Southerners
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