O'Connor and Hodgins

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A comparison of ways in which the main characters in Jack Hodgins' "The Plague Children" and Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation" view their farms. The paper discusses how attitudes towards their farms are reflected in their attitudes toward the world in general. The paper also explains the external forces that produce life changing experiences to both characters.

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"The purpose of this research is to compare and contrast the attitudes of the main characters in Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation" and Jack Hodgins' "The Plague Children" toward their farms, with a view toward identifying how those attitudes intersect with their attitudes toward the world more generally. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas in the stories and then to discuss the means by which the characters' relationships to their farms drive the narrative."

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