Post WWII: "Everything that Rises must Converge" Flannery O'Connor

• January 1965
• 3rd Person POV through Julian
• recent college grad and self-styled intellectual who lives with his mother because he can't afford his own lodgings with the salary he hears as a typewriter salesman
• Mother's world 
• racism of the mid-20th C South
• Blacks are free to rise
• But should do so separately from whites
• wary of riding the bus because of racial integration on the Public transportation system
• Julian resentfully agrees to escort his mother
• If only out of duty to the woman who paid for college
• and continues to support him now
• declares that he will make money one day
• wants to move to the country
• His mother encourages him to dream big
• Confrontational bitterness and thoughtless prejudice bring the circumstances to a boil
• on the bus joined by widely disparate cast of characters
• 2 black men with vastly different social status
• One in a nice suit reading the newspaper
• Julian imagines striking up a conversation with him.
• Instead asks for a light in spite of the no-smoking and no cigs
• Julian tries to screw with his mother
• loosens his tie to which his mother says he looks like a thug
• Mother points out there are only white people on board
• Discussion turns to Julian
• Mother says he's a typewriter salesman but wants to be a writer
• Julian withdraws
• dreams of bringing a black lawyer or professor home for dinner to cause his mother to need to be treated by a black doctor
• interracial relationships
• Stern-looking black woman boards the bus with her young son
• boy sits next to mother
• Mother likes all children regardless of race
• mother sits next to Julian
• Black mother seems familiar but unsure why
• places it to the ugly hat she wears and his mother also wears
• Calls out angrily to her son, Carver
• Julian's mother tries to play Peek-a-boo with the boy
• Black woman ignores her and chastises her son
• Julian and the black woman pll the signal cord at the same time
• Mother always gives a nickel to kids
• Can only find a penny
• Goes to give it to Carver
• Mother clobbers mother with purse yelling "He don't take nobody's pennies!"
• Julian berates his mother as he helps her up
• Lectures his mother saying that she should learn from her encounter with the woman on the bus 
• All African Americans distaste for condescending handouts
• Mother reaches out to grab Julian
• Strange expression on her face
• says to call for grandpa or nurse Caroline
• crumbles to the pavement
• Julian rushes to her and finds her face distorted
• Starts to run for help but quickly returns to her side.