O'Connor further builds up the theme by using literary device such as symbolism. Icons help to describe the moral of the story using visual arousal instead of just using words. The Heroes O. E. Parker and Mrs. Turpin both maintain their view how their imperfections and the role religious impact their lives. These symbols also present the average person issues which already show in the storyline.
In "Revelation" Flannery O'Connor uses several tips of symbolism. Mary Elegance does not like Mrs. Turpin right from the start of the storyline. Her expression and indicators shows she dislike Mrs. Turpin. When she actually is out of her anger, she throws book on Mrs. Turpin's face. This book symbolizes her dislike toward Mrs. Turpin; the whole story is determined by that book. This is the climax in the storyline. In doctor's office there will vary kinds of people and Mrs. Turpin classifies them as their racial conditions. For instance, the white-trashy girl shows the lowest school with uneducated and unintelligence, the well-dressed female shows the higher class and incredibly intelligence and also with an education, while Mrs. Turpin shows the middle class working female with average intelligence and education.
In "Parker's Back again" by Flannery O'Connor, the tats O. E. Parker receives are summaries his whole life. O'Connor implies them as major symbols throughout Parker's life. Parker has tattooed on all over his body except back again. All this tattoos associated with his earlier life and whatever he have wrong in those days. Every tattoo describes some different interpretation related his along with his life. This tattoo demonstrates the parker got trouble life before and he couldn't in a position to find a tranquility. O'Connor uses his name O. E. Parker as symbol. O. E. Parker's real name is Obadiah Elihue, which means servant of god. Sarah wishes that Parker surpass his real name. She wishes that Parker have confidence in God because she needs to save lots of his life from all misdeeds. By the end where he has a link with God, is drawn to developing a Byzantine tattoo of Christ located on his rear which ultimately shows that Parker slowly but surely experiences religious change. Because of the body art, O'Connor unveils the major characteristics in Parker's life and sympathizes with this man as he looks for his personality and detects God.
O'Connor creates great story by using discord. This conflict helps to understand character's flaw in the storyplot. In "Revelation" O'Conner uses a social conflict between Mrs. Turpin plus some other minor heroes, while in "Parker's Again" O'Conner runs on the personal discord between parker and Sarah Ruth.
The storyline "Revelation" has a cultural discord. The first turmoil is between Mrs. Turpin and a white-trash girl. This conflict appears because Mrs. Turpin thinks that she actually is belongs to higher class, as the white-trash women belongs to lessen class. She also thinks that white-trash female is neither clever nor educated. For example, O'Conner state governments that "No, I already have a good clock, " once someone like her received a lower leg in conversation, she would be around it" (382). The next turmoil is between Mrs. Turpin and Mary Elegance. Mary Grace's tendencies towards Mrs. Turpin is significant. She does not like Mrs. Turpin right from the start of the storyplot. Her expressions and rudeness shows her dislikes for Mrs. Turpin. For instance, in the story O'Connor claims that "The unsightly girl beside her cast an vision upwards at the clock, smirked, they viewed immediately at Mrs. Turpin and smirked again" (382). This turmoil works out well when unpredictable things happen further in the storyline. This action by the teenage female is completely unstable. The lady dislikes Mrs. Turpin because of her previous actions. When Mrs. Turpin is chatting with another persona and it is not speaking with the girl, she visits Mrs. Turpin's face with the booklet. This violent work is completely unpredictable in the storyline.
In "Parker's Back again" conflict shows up between O. E. Parker and Sarah Ruth. Sarah Ruth and Parker's romance with one another is major personal discord. Parker marries a woman he cannot stand. She, subsequently, does not approve of him. Parker would like to leave her, but locates that he can't do it. She does not like color and tattoos still she marries with parker, it implies that she meant to save him. Her idea system is rigid, and it is because her dad was a in a straight line Gospel Preacher, she shuns churches, icons, and any manifestation of the spiritual. O' Connor always concentrate on her heroes weakness in the story. Parker is neither even in a position to please his partner nor even in a position to experience spiritual satisfaction. Parker refuses faith in his own life. Parker runs from all responsibility and faith to maintain electric power over his life. O' Conner stresses O. E. Parker's failure as a religious person. Throughout the development of the storyline, Sarah Ruth and Parker battle to change one another. Their different perception about religion is a major turmoil between them. This discord works out well when unstable action used by Sarah Ruth. Parker sees ways to please his disapproving partner, who has consistently dismissed his body artwork as vanity. By the end where he does have a link with God, he made a decision to make tattoo on his back again a Byzantine image of Jesus. Sarah will not appreciate the tattoo; instead she is better than parker wildly with the broom, until the face on his backside is distorted by welts.
In both reviews people have their revelation with the God, and by the end they experience divine interventions. Despite of lot of difference in the storyline both characters have only similarities in the last. They both have their revelation and experience divine intervention. Mrs. Turpin and Parker experience a sudden change in their thinking; they feel that God provides communication to them.
Mrs. Turpin has experience a divine treatment at the end. Mrs. Turpin encounters the physical act by Mary Elegance which was shocking. She couldn't in a position to know why she hates her a whole lot. In the hanging around room, When the Mary's sight lock with Mrs. Turpin's and she said, "Get back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog" (387). Mrs. Turnip finds herself disgraceful and she realizes everything that comment she used to make on other folks. Now she can see herself connect to all or any different kind of individuals which she earlier describes in the story. Without this involvement, it could not be clear what have been after that violent and a "wart hog" communication from God. Following this realization Mrs. Turpin finally see herself obviously.
Parker also encounters a divine involvement by the end, but even in the begging of the story when he had experience like failing of his eyesight and menace by Sarah Ruth. In those days suddenly he experienced that someone had harm on him like a giant hawk-eye angle with hoary weapon. After this illustration, Parker has feels another involvement by the end of the storyplot, but this involvement does not stay much longer with Parker. He has realizes something and starts have confidence in God, as parker yells "GOD ABOVE" (400). He out of the blue feels connection with God. He decides to get tattoo on his back. He now is aware of what Sarah said, and he recognized he'd have to answer God at wisdom seating. After his divine involvement, Parker returned to home; however, at last, he is unable to please her better half because the problem now is completely different than before. When Parker enters the tattoo artist's shop, he starts off washing his back and Parker's feels as though his all bad deeds clean whatever wrongs he had done before. When Parker finally identifies himself as Obadiah, he seems his soul turning into an "arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts" (401). His relief is shortly live; however, when his wife is better than him with a broom, building large welts on the tattooed Jesus. Parker manages to lose his brief connection to God, and is reduced to helpless man "leaning from the tree, crying just like a baby, " (406). It looks he feels complete failing in his life.
In bottom line, In "Revelation" Mrs. Turpin, she herself imagine good person but she is not. Her comment and critique about other folks shows her best flaw in the storyline. She is having problem with her own mentality and finally she realize when the violent action happen by that gal. Her divine treatment helps her as reflection to see herself. While in "Parker's Back", Parker is unable to please her partner after tattooed his rear with Byzantine image of Jesus. The story ends with parker crying with a pecan tree beyond your house. O'Connor shows Mrs. Turpin's flaw and Parker's downgrading of Christianity by using varying elements such as appearance, symbolism, discord and their revelation with God. Both tales turn out in unhappy stopping and failure at the end. This unhappy finishing is merely because of heroes weaknesses in character.
