"get well soon" and "revelation"
Kaitlyn Miller
Mr. Hardin
ENGL 1010
March 26th, 2014
In the stories “Get Well Soon” and “Revelation”, there were epiphanies in each that really stood out. Both stories have much in common with each other dealing with the epiphanies. Both of the main characters in the short stories come to a realization in their lives and have to ponder whether or not they are going to have to make a change or not. To start it off, Alice Conroy, from “Get Well Soon”, is a fourth grade teacher in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi who recently graduated college, where she had had an affair with one of her professors. Throughout the time the readers read about Alice’s class, they find out that one of their own peers, Glenn Gregg, is in a severe burn incident, but they do not know why. So Ms. Conroy lets her students make get well soon cards for Glenn. Neither Alice, nor the students really know all of the facts regarding the burning incident, but soon find out when they all decide to take a field trip to Glenn Gregg’s house to see him. They soon find out that Glenn was burned accidentally because he was trying to kill his own father by setting him on fire. Alice and all of her students come to realization that Glenn Gregg will probably not recover from his actions. Alice is saddened by this and also is in a realization that the professor she had an affair with will never love her back the way that she loves him. As Alice grows older, nobody in her life really believes the things that she tells them. She always told people about the burning accident and her love for her professor back in the day, but nobody ever believed her when she told them these things, nor did they really care. These moments in her life are her epiphanic realizations, and she comes to a conclusion that “we are, all of us, alone.” In the short story, “Revelation” by Flannery O’ Connor, the protagonist, Mrs. Turpin, is a southern, Christian woman who believes that, since her and her husband are home
Mr. Hardin
ENGL 1010
March 26th, 2014
In the stories “Get Well Soon” and “Revelation”, there were epiphanies in each that really stood out. Both stories have much in common with each other dealing with the epiphanies. Both of the main characters in the short stories come to a realization in their lives and have to ponder whether or not they are going to have to make a change or not. To start it off, Alice Conroy, from “Get Well Soon”, is a fourth grade teacher in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi who recently graduated college, where she had had an affair with one of her professors. Throughout the time the readers read about Alice’s class, they find out that one of their own peers, Glenn Gregg, is in a severe burn incident, but they do not know why. So Ms. Conroy lets her students make get well soon cards for Glenn. Neither Alice, nor the students really know all of the facts regarding the burning incident, but soon find out when they all decide to take a field trip to Glenn Gregg’s house to see him. They soon find out that Glenn was burned accidentally because he was trying to kill his own father by setting him on fire. Alice and all of her students come to realization that Glenn Gregg will probably not recover from his actions. Alice is saddened by this and also is in a realization that the professor she had an affair with will never love her back the way that she loves him. As Alice grows older, nobody in her life really believes the things that she tells them. She always told people about the burning accident and her love for her professor back in the day, but nobody ever believed her when she told them these things, nor did they really care. These moments in her life are her epiphanic realizations, and she comes to a conclusion that “we are, all of us, alone.” In the short story, “Revelation” by Flannery O’ Connor, the protagonist, Mrs. Turpin, is a southern, Christian woman who believes that, since her and her husband are home