Wise Blood Presentation
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Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor.
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This was done by Lauren von Aspen, Will, Little Kate
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and Campbell and Aided and Very Poor.
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Wise Blood is a story that focuses around a man
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named Hazel Motes who grew up in a very religious
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family. His grandfather was a preacher and was taught that,
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and he was taught that faith, God and Jesus were
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the most important things in life.
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However, after going to war and his family members all
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dying, he began to reject religion and started calling out
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those who believed in it.
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He became an atheist.
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Throughout the book, he is frequently referred to by others
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as being a preacher, even though he is not.
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This leads to a struggle and escaping his destiny.
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Hazel goes to a city called Talking Him, and he
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meets a boy named Enoch Emory, who faces his own
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troubles with the battle of his destiny and free will
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and talking him.
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Hazel founded a church called the Church Without Christ that
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believes that there is no Jesus and that sins our
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ally. In addition, he meets a blind preacher named as
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a Hawks.
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While Hazel initially believed in what Hawkes was preaching, he
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ended up realizing that he is a fraud, and Hazel
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started to go back to his early roots of believing
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in religion.
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He then begins to believe in the idea of sins
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again and tells his land Lady Miss Flood, that he
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has to pay for his wrongdoings.
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This ultimately leads to the theme of finding ourselves fulfilling
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our destiny no matter how much we want to avoid
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it, and that the nature of those of who we
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are will always overcome who we might want to be.
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She then asked to marry him, and when he hears
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it, he runs away.
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He is then found by the police who end up
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accidentally killing him.