The_River

The River Flannery O’Connor’s “The River”: A Story of Faith' Flannery O’Connor’s story “The River” is a story of faith. The main character of the story is a young boy whose real name is Harry Ashfield. Although his real name is Harry he tells people his name is Bevel. Bevel is introduced to Christianity by Mrs. Connin, who is a babysitter that his parents have hired to take care of him. “The River” is about Bevel and his exploration of religious faith. This story is a good example that a person who is a little devil and has no religious background can change his beliefs and start to have faith in god. Bevel is a joker and is used to living everything out as a joke, almost nothing is of a serious matter to him. Bevel does not come from a religious family. In matter of fact it is said that, “If he had thought about it before, he would have thought Jesus Christ was a word like ‘oh’ or ‘damm’ or ‘God’ or maybe somebody.” (160). It can be seen that he did not even have any religious background and no knowledge of a god existing. His family becomes angry with Mrs. faith, bevel, river, because, story, christ, kingdom, religious, mrs, died, tillich, seen, preacher, paradise, mr, god, find, connin, uncertainty, taken, says, said, people, order, name, kid, courage, christianity, baptized, background, accepted, about, trait, thought, tells, successful