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Essay heading: Those Most Nearly Touched: Social Criticism In American Literature
 
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By doing so, he changed the previously romantic, chivalrous perception of war, and altered it into modern society's idea of war and appreciation of peace. The short stories of Flannery O'Connor were also vehicles for social criticism of some problems of her generation, such as gender roles, sin, and racial relations...
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O'Connor's stories, written in the late 1940's and 1950's, were hard-hitting writings with a sense of deep despair as to the condition of the society that they described. She grotesquely illustrated the pre-Civil Rights racism problems present in her story "Everything that Rises Must Converge". The story, which described a conflict of interest between Julian and his racist mother on a newly de-segregated bus, allowed its reader to realize in the end that both characters were wrong...
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