This week in class we read a story called Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor. This story was about Julian and his mother. Julian was a college graduate, who wanted to become a writer. He was selling typewriters until he could write a book. Julian was not racist but his mother was. He had to take her to her reducing meeting at the Y every Wednesday night. They rode the bus to the Y and that Wednesday night a black man got on the bus and the mother was hoping he did not seat beside her. He went and sat at the back of the bus. Then at the next stop a black lady and her son got on the bus and the black lady sat beside Julian with that same purple valet hat his mother had on. The little boy sat beside Julian's mother. The little boy was acting up on the bus and his mother grabbed him and told him to behave. When the black lady and her son got off the bus Julian's mother was going through her purse trying to find a nickel to give the little boy but all she had was a penny. Julian told her not to do that. She tried to give the little the penny and his mother turned around and said we don't take pennies from anyone and he hit Julian's mother with her purse. After that it seems like Julian's mother dies but it really doesn't say. This story was a little strange to me.