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By Jordan Schlueter
 * Flannery O'Connor**

Flannery O'Connor is an American author of fictional stories. Most of the stories reflect her faith in the Roman Catholic Church. She says" All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal" (O'Connor). Her stories usually follow an individual's struggle through life's problems. She uses violence as a means of opening the eyes of a character. It is the comical grace she speaks of in her quote. In her novels, violence is used to turn characters towards the better direction. In some cases, it kills them. She died of kidney failure on August 3, 1964.

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