{"id":280,"date":"2017-02-26T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=280"},"modified":"2017-02-26T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T22:31:04","slug":"the-lame-shall-enter-first-a-view-of-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-novel\/the-lame-shall-enter-first-a-view-of-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lame Shall Enter First, A View of the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flannery O&#8217; Connor, in both of these short stories, demonstrates generational relationships unlike those that I&#8217;ve encountered before in literature. The child is traditionally considered the embodiment of the tabula rasa, or blank slate, one who is destined to become his or her future self from the effects of their environment and upbringing. The generic literary trope of the child is one of purity and moral innocence, however O&#8217; Connor diverges sharply from this archetype by portraying three children as embodying some of the worst characteristics possible such as of greed, petulance and corrupt. Yet despite being horrible individuals, these characters still achieve the same effect as the trope- that is,\u00a0reflecting the major faults of the main character. While I am at a loss for what these stories mean for the American dream, these two short stories changed my perception of the child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flannery O&#8217; Connor, in both of these short stories, demonstrates generational relationships unlike those that I&#8217;ve encountered before in literature. The child is traditionally considered the embodiment of the tabula rasa, or blank slate, one who is destined to become his or her future self from the effects of their environment and upbringing. The generic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flannery-oconnor","category-willa-cather-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}