Displaced Person
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The Christian-haunted South and its peoples populate the fiction of Flannery O’Connor. In The Displaced Person the same is true. In this short story O’Connor shows the moment of death as being one wherein the individual acts with the character qualities that will accompany him into eternity. Religion is identical with the landscape in this story, and the Displaced Person (DP) is, as a foreigner, as displaced as the religion of those whose town he inhabits. While the Displaced Person is presented in the story as being socially displaced, the social environment in which he tries to make a new life for himself and his family is populated with inhabitants who are theologically or spiritually displaced. We see a similar parallel between the Displaced Person and the millions of homeless people living on the streets in modern America. The homeless person, much like the DP in this story, is considered displaced because he or she is so foreign to those around them. Likewise, the Polish immigrant Guizac is displaced because he is considered foreign and that foreignness makes him a threat to those in the rural town because of their misperceptions and fear of him. Many legislators and U.S. citizens call for the incarceration of homeless because they misperceive them. Their foreign nature makes many fear them as bad, crazy people with intent to do crime instead of the hopeless, shelterless, and drug and alcohol abusers they typically a
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
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