Life You Save May Be Your Own By Flannery O Connor
In the popular short story “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, Flannery O’Connor introduces three main characters. ... In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, O’Connor ingeniously uses allusions to Jesus and Christianity to examine the hypocrisies of the religions and its adherents. ... Like Christ the carpenter he is able to fix the broken: "He had patched the front and back steps, built a new hog pen, restored a fence, and taught Lucynell, who was completely deaf and had never said a word in her life, to say the word bird". ... In this perspective, O’Connor puts in question Christianity and the actions of its followers.