Everything That Rises Must Converge



"'True culture is in the mind, the mind,” he said, and tapped his head, “the mind.”

"It' in the heart," she said,"and in how you do things is because of who you are."'

-Excerpt from Everything that Rises Must Converge

Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor. The stories scrutinize many different subjects such as race, faith, and morality. Jacob was shown reding this book as John Locke fell to his death. The irony in the situation is that while Jacob was reading, John "rose" to the top of the building and then "converged" to the ground as he fell.

Amazon Description
''Collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'connor, published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment. The title story is a tragicomedy about social pride, racial bigotry, generational conflict, false liberalism, and filial dependence. The protagonist Julian Chestny is hypocritically disdainful of his mother's prejudices. His smug selfishness is replaced with childish fear when she suffers a fatal stroke after being struck by a black woman she has insulted out of oblivious ignorance rather than malice. Similarly, "The Comforts of Home" is about an intellectual son with an Oedipus complex. Driven by the voice of his dead father, the son accidentally kills his sentimental mother in an attempt to murder a harlot. The other stories are "A View of the Woods," "Parker's Back," "The Enduring Chill," "Greenleaf," "The Lame Shall Enter First," "Revelation," and "Judgment Day."''

-- http://www.amazon.com/Everything-That-Rises-Must-Converge/dp/0374504644