The Life You Save May Be Your Own Summary & Study Guide

This Study Guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Life You Save May Be Your Own.

The Life You Save May Be Your Own Summary & Study Guide

This Study Guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Life You Save May Be Your Own.
This section contains 749 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Life You Save May Be Your Own Study Guide

Part I: Meeting

An old woman and her daughter sit quietly on their porch at sunset when Tom Shiftlet comes walking up the road to their farm. Through carefully selected details, O'Connor reveals that the girl is mute, that the old woman views Shiftlet as "a tramp," and that Shiftlet himself wears a "left coat sleeve that was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it." The two adults exchange curt pleasantries. "I'd give a fortune to live where I could see me a sun do that every evening," Shiftlet states, looking at the sunset, to which the woman coolly answers, "Does it every evening." Shiftlet surveys the run-down farm and inquires about a rusted automobile, which has not worked in years. "Nothing is like it used to be, lady," Shiftlet observes. "The world is almost rotten." Again the woman's response is abrupt: "That's...

(read more)

This section contains 749 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Life You Save May Be Your Own Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
The Life You Save May Be Your Own from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.