nourhan09's review
3.0
هل يبدو صحيحًا بالنسبة لكِ أن أحدًا يُعاقَب بإفراط والآخر لا يُعاقَب على الإطلاق؟»
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قصة قصيرة ، كانت ضريفة ولكن انتهت نهاية غير متوقعة.!!!
كان يجب أن تكون رحلة عائلية بسيطة ليس فيها تعقيد أو صعوبة مجرد رحلة استرخاء قصيرة ولطيفة، ولكن من الصعب أن يكون هنالك اكثر من قبطان لسفينة واحدة، وهنا كانت المشكلة ، حينما يتحكم شخص آخر في كل قرار يمكن أن تفكر فيه ، ويحاول أن يفسد كل مخطط تقرره ، لايمكنك سوى أن تتوقع نهاية سيئة لهذه الرحلة العائلية.
نصيحة لكل شخص يقود السيارة في رحلة مع عائلته، لا تستمع إلى كلام كبار السن ولا الأطفال .
wandererzarina's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
amylittleford's review
3.0
I found this short story very interesting. When I began reading it I didn't expect that the ending would be so violent. I can't say that I was sad about what happened to the family in the story but maybe the Grandmother was the only one I felt for at all. I was shocked by the grandchildrens attitude towards her and was disgusted in the way they spoke to her. The son was no better. The wife was a rather pointless character that didn't really do much. I enjoyed meeting the three misfits who I thought would be a great source of help who ended up being the opposite. I found the conversation intriguing due to the topic. I thought maybe the Grandmother would be spared but no.
Amy x
Amy x
lneff514's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent storytelling and the characters are vivid. A snapshot of a specific time and setting with it's simplicity, struggle, racism, sexist ideology, and xenophobia. This book captures complexity wonderfully well.
cainscr's review against another edition
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
tomhill's review against another edition
5.0
The title story is truly great; darkly comic and bleak and disturbing and full of deeper meaning. Most of the other stories in the collection are nearly as good. Flannery O'Connor is just great, her stories are concerned with hubris, hopelessness, evil, salvation. The gothic, the macabre. Examining racism was also important to her. I would say it is impossible to separate O'Connor's Catholic faith from her writing, although Catholicism specifically is often not even referenced in these stories. What is fascinating is that Flannery O'Connor's writing is bleaker and darker than you might imagine given this fact. All the heaviness and suffering you might associate with Catholicism is here, without any of the hope you might also expect. She was deliciously cynical, and I love it.
nick_jenkins's review against another edition
4.0
The stories from this collection for which O'Connor is famous (the title story and "The Life You Save May Be Your Own") I found to be absolute failures--wet firecrackers of narrative. "The River" is halfway decent but could have been good, but the last two stories are absolutely masterful. O'Connor sort of ruins "Good Country People" at the end, but "The Displaced Person" is simply too good for her to spoil. I wonder if the stories are arranged in the order they were written; there is a sense of maturation over the course of the book, of growing confidence in her ability as a writer and to take the kind of risks which make her stories truly meaningful, and not just things you can hand to an AP English class for a Symbolism-Scavenger-Hunt.
catherinemohs's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting twist as usual with any [a:Flannery O'Connor|22694|Flannery O'Connor|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1469878767p2/22694.jpg] stories. I found out with her stories that you have to delve deeper to find the true meaning of the story.
fjordpingvin's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Classism, Murder, Ableism, Death, and Pregnancy