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5.0�toiles sur 5 oh, fanaticism, Juil 16 2004

Par	Ann Lewis (CA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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A great introspective look on the effect of fanaticism on children. The main character, Tarwater, was kidnapped as a baby from his crazy great-uncle who thinks he is a prophet and that he must save the boy. They live, isolotaed, in the middle of the southern backwoods until the great-uncle suddenly dies, leaving the boy, now 14, to his own devices. The boy finds himself alone is a world he barely knows, having learned almost exclusively about his uncle's version of religious history and the supposed evils of the Tarwater's other living family members. To survive, the boy sets out to find his other uncle, a schoolteacher, who the great-uncle hated with a passion. Weighted down with both pride and fear, Tarwater begins to explore the real world for the first time.

A great read for anyone with an interest and perhaps mild distaste for modern religion.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 ...all good children go to heaven..., Juil 2 2004

Par	Jan Dierckx (Belgium, Turnhout) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

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This novel is about the way people (children and adults) are trying to cope with religious fanaticism. Above all it shows how the credulity of children is exploited by parents and other family members for the sake of their own fanatic ideas.
The main characters are Tarwater, a fourteen year old boy, who lives with his great-uncle in a cottage in the woods. There is Rayber, the schoolteacher, who's Tarwater's uncle. Bishop, the severe mentally disabled son of Rayber, is one of the most touching characters of the novel.
When the great-uncle dies of old age at the breakfast table, the boy puts the cottage on fire and runs off. After a while he decides to go to his uncle Rayber who tries to win the friendship of his nephew.
Though the intrigue is fairly simple it's sometimes a tragedy so dense that - at certain moments - it's almost unbearable to read further. It leaves the reader almost with a feeling that all the misery of the world has landed upon his shoulders. Only after a few moments he can fool himself by saying that it's only fiction, so why worry.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 A Far-fetched Tale, Mai 20 2004

Par	Justin Baas (Newburgh, Indiana United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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Many of the themes in this book were just to difficult for me to focus on without stepping back to question whether anything like this could really happen....at least in this way. For instance, the lack of emphasis on the drowing death of Bishop is just hard to understand. What about Tarwater's moral accountability for Bishop's death?? Tarwater was also a heavy drinker....which is not very likely in the time eriod this is writen, especially for his age. It was a good moral message, but i think ia little overdone.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 The virus of religious fanaticism
It was predicted by Francis Tarwater's great-uncle that young Tarwater would become a prophet and would baptize the son of the great-uncle's other nephew, Rayber. Read more

Publi� le Avril 21 2004 par IRA Ross

5.0�toiles sur 5 Grotesque?
O'Connor defended the grotesque element in her fiction this way:

"The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his... Read more

Publi� le Ao� 21 2003 par John Green

5.0�toiles sur 5 Who is the prophet and who is the walking obscenity?
Grim determinism pervades the lives of an emotionally troubled family in the American South in this gripping novel by Flannery O'Connor. Read more

Publi� le Avril 20 2002 par Dave Deubler

4.0�toiles sur 5 Classic Southern Gothic
The Violent Bear it Away is a disturbing example of the unique gothic tradition of America's Southern writers. Read more

Publi� le Nov. 7 2001 par Winston Smith

4.0�toiles sur 5 undeniably affecting
From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the
violent bear it away. Read more

Publi� le Nov. 4 2001 par Orrin C. Judd

5.0�toiles sur 5 Grotesquerie and Fanaticism -- perfect O'Connor
O'Connor characters are either complacent believers or condescending rationalists, and she takes great bloody fun in showing them up. Read more

Publi� le Juil 28 2001 par jatag

5.0�toiles sur 5 Finest work
This book is probably O'Connor's finest work of fiction. The story itself is much stronger than the more highly acclaimed Wise Blood, as are its characters. Read more

Publi� le Jui 14 2000 par Jonathan Emerson

4.0�toiles sur 5 Excellent writing....
This is a quality book. If you are debating on whether or not to buy it -- take the chance, buy it. The ending is great.

Not as commonly known as F. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 19 2000 par meph

5.0�toiles sur 5 i haven't seen it all yet?
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Publi� le Ao� 17 1999

5.0�toiles sur 5 A dark book that shines through with the light of wisdom.
I can agree with almost any reader who disliked this work. I can understand why people would not like it; this is a terrible book, but it is a wonderfully terribly book. Read more

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