Wise Blood Character Analysis

She witnesses her son Harrison’s bold attempt to claim his role as Emperor and sees him get shot as well. After that she apparently forgets what she witnesses. In the movie 2081 however, Chandler Tuttle struggled to understand why Hazel watched the incident and could not remember. Since he could not figure it out, He set up a scene where Hazel leaves to wash the dishes and leaves George alone to watch alone in the living room. She says “urgh i think i will get started with the dishes.”The real reason Hazel forgot about her son’s death is because she got desensitized

The characters’ actions throughout Wise Blood provide the novel’s most obvious examples of irony and fate over free will. Early in the novel, Hazel comes across a blind, begging preacher named Asa Hawkes. Hazel then considers him his rival for the rest of the novel, constantly spying on him and harassing him in his apartment. However, following in his enemy’s footsteps, Hazel later blinds himself to prove a point, just as the preacher had tried to do several years earlier (O’Connor 216). Hazel, throughout his entire childhood, feared God and His punishments because of his hyper-religious grandfather (O’Connor 14). This led him to pursue preaching as a career. However, during his time in the army, Hazel began to hate Christ, and allowed his army mates to convince him that there is no God or tangible soul. O’Connor even writes that Hazel “took a long time to believe them because he wanted to believe them” (O’Connor 18). This leads to Hazel becoming a passionate atheist by the end of his four years in the army, but when Hazel moves from the army to Taulkinham, he meets Asa Hawkes, who tries to bring him back to God. Hazel attempts to debate religious matters with Hawkes several times in the novel but loses verbal arguments every time. When searching for a different way to surpass Hawkes, Hazel discovers that he is not actually blind and finds his way to prove himself superior (O’Connor 162). Sringley writes in her article “Penance and Love in Wise Blood: Seeing

Hazel Motes's Christian upbringing continues to be significant in later chapters of Wise Blood. Several characters notice an inherent goodness in Hazel that shows through despite his determination to deny it. The FROSTY BOTTLE waitress, who says, "I know a clean boy when I see on e," warnsthe "nice boy" Hazel to stay away from Enoch, lest he be corrupted by the "goddamned son a bitch"(46-47). Hazel responds, "I AM clean," making

Firstly, within the novel, it is clear that Hazel is a caring person and is fully aware of what her body’s condition does to her

He kicks out Sabbath Hawks, becoming Hazel’s girlfriend. While in the apartment Hazel was shown to an old newspaper that talks about how Asa Hawks had promised to prove that Jesus christ had redeemed him. Sabbath hawks says that he blinded himself with lime and does not tell the truth. Enoch considers himself having "wise blood”, it's sort of a sense of instinct that informs him that something is going to happen to Hazel. Enoch steals a shrunken man from a museum and takes it to his apartment because he wants to give Hazel a new Jesus for the Church Without Christ.

Augustus realizes that a lot of people let their cancer identify them, which it seems at first like Hazel does. Through the novel Augustus mentions multiple times how he wants his life to mean something other than cancer. “I fear that I won’t be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta

He is also always up for a risk even if it means that he is risking himself but he will not let others get harmed or left behind. He is always going to be confident by going someplace where he doesn't know what he is going to find. They left the original warren because Fiver says he can see into the future, he says something bad is going to happen soon so a couple of the rabbits leave and they gather more rabbits along the way. “‘Fiver and I will be leaving the warren tonight,’ he said deliberately. ‘I don't know exactly where we shall go, but we’ll take anyone who is willing to come with us’” (page 14). Hazel is strong and brave and is willing to go anywhere to help his friends from not being harmed by anything that they may come across. Being brave really helps the leader be a better leader than they already are because they are confident enough to do what is needed although it may scare them. Although Hazel got injured because of the men that came to kill and hurt the rabbits, he still powered through the pain and was a great leader even while he was hurt. Hazel was strong even when he go hurt from running away from the men and falling into a hole that he couldn't get out of. When Hazel was missing because he was in the woods and injured his friends were looking for him because they need him around for them to be safe. Hazel is great at doing what is needed like finding food to survive and helping others get where they need to be. Hazel is always super supportive, for example when they were at the new warren one day the went outside and they found an injured bird and Hazel demanded that they help him and make him get better. Hazel told all of the other rabbits to find food for the bird Kehaar. “‘I believe it's starving,’ said Hazel. ‘We'd better feed it. Bigwig, go and get some worms or something. There's a good fellow’” (page 181) Hazel is being a leader here because he is telling Bigwig to go

There is a sense of rebellion throughout the story that reminds the reader of what it’s like to be a child. As a child I can remember talking back, and when something didn’t go my way I would pout and “give (them) some lip.” (Bambara 450) Having this sense of rebellion makes it feel like you can do whatever you want with no price to pay. However, this again shows the rebellious nature of Hazel helping the reader realize she is a child. Even when Hazel talks to the manager of the movie theater she is courageous enough to “…kick the door open…and sit down...” (Bambara 451)and demand the manager her money back. She even puts up an argument to get out of punishment with her parents when she knows she has done something wrong. The connectivity between these two ideas help

Hazel grace is a dynamic character because she changes throughout the story. In the beginning, Hazel doesn’t want to get close to Augustus, because she was afraid he is going to be shattered when she dies. But towards the ending, hazel finds out it doesn’t matter if you die in the middle of a relationship, it’s about the moments you spend together. A quote in the book, on page 214, “Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.”

She desperately starts to look for this last testament with hope that she could have changed something. Later comes depression; in the finding and hunting for Gus’s last testament she feels frustrated and slowly starts to depress. Until that spark of flame ignites her and she reaches the last stage of grief, which is acceptance. She finally finds the last testament which ends with this: “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have a say in who hurts you, and I like my choices, and I hope she likes hers. Okay, Hazel Grace?”. (Green. 313) With her response being: I do. Peter Van Houten became a monster after he lost his daughter to Leukemia. He is a symbol of what you can become if you do not overcome grief. John Green was wise when incorporating him to the novel because he put him as a species of foreshadowing tool of what could have happened if Hazel would not have accepted Augustus’s death. She saw that and she accepted

Once Brown is deep into the forest, he is surrounded by people from his town acting wicked and sinful, people who he had always assumed were noble and righteous. As he is led to the altar to be received into this association of evil, he is joined by his wife, Faith. Brown cannot believe his religious and heavenly wife is there. She represents what is good to him, and he cries to her to look heavenward and save herself. But

To begin with, this story takes place mainly in Indianapolis in the 21st century. The story also takes place in hospitals, support groups in churches, as well as each other’s homes. From this, I can understand when Hazel describes

Hazel has a strong identity in the story, she has much self-confidence and is not afraid of letting everyone know that she is the best, “Now some people like to act like things come easy to them, won’t let on that they practice. Not me. I’ll high-prance down 34th street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight.” p. 1 ll. 29-31. Thus her strong and proud personality, she still loves and protects Raymond and is not afraid of showing this either. At the end of the story Hazel’s view on other people changes, when she sees Raymond running parallel with her at the May Day race in his own unique style. She realizes that everyone is not just who she sees them to be, that there are more to people than you can

Flannery O 'Connor is a Christian writer, and her work shows Christian themes of good and evil, grace, and salvation. O’Connor has challenged the theme of religion into all of her works largely because of her Roman Catholic upbringing. O’Connor wrote in such a way that the characters and settings of her stories are unforgettable, revealing deep insights into the human existence. In O’Connor’s Introduction to a “Memoir of Mary Ann,” she claims that Christians live to prepare for their death. This statement is reflected in her other works, including her short story “A Good Man is Hard To Find.” After reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” many questions remain unanswered

After Hazel realizes she should treat others with more respect even if they are different she smiles to Gretchen and Gretchen smiles back (pg 7, Bambara). Hazel and Gretchen show this big smile of respect towards one another. This also shows that Hazel realized she needs to treat others equally, she also realized Gretchen isn't as bad as she thought. “Instead of being something honest and worthy of respect, you know… like people” (pg 7, Bambara). After Hazel and Gretchen smiled at one another Hazel realized everyone deserves to be treated equally, if they have a disability or not, everyone deserves to be