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were part and parcel of southern culture toward African Americans.
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What I think O'Connor is doing here is taking some of that reality
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and injecting it into Hazel's narrative. So, these are
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the kinds of images that the Civil Rights movement really brought to light.
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Here we see them in relation to Hazel.
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But overt racism is there, too, and if you look on page 67 in
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your book, and this is on 71 in mine, you will see that O'Connor does not
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hesitate to use the word "nigger" in the dialog of her characters.
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Now, the narrative voice does not use that word,
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but here it is on the bottom of 71.
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Her characters are perhaps typical poor southerners:
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"Well, what do you want to pay for it?" the man asks.