Enoch Emery. Child in a Man's Body.

Now that I am getting farther through the blogs it is becoming much easier because O'Connor is definitely fresh in my mind. She was the second to last book that we read and she was also the author that I did my paper on. I love Flannery O'Connor. I had never actually read any thing by or about her before this class and I am very glad that we did read about her. She was a very interesting woman and a woman who I thought could have done some really great things if she had not died so young.

Wise Blood was a somewhat bizarre book but was such a fun read. The characters were strange, but not so terribly strange that you could not identify with them at least a little bit.

My favorite character in the book was definitely Enoch Emery. He was a strange little perverted man who possessed an almost lover-like devotion to Hazel Motes. It did not matter how mean Hazel was to him, even to the point of hitting Emery over the head with a rock and leaving him in a field. He just kept coming back, which I thought was an odd mix of pathetic and adorable.

He was not a good man by any stretch of the imagination. He was the creeper from the Sunday paper who peeks around the bushes at work watching women swimming in a pool. But even that is somehow written in a way that does not creep you out as much as makes you giggle a little bit at how very ridiculous a character he is. He is written in as what seems to be a child in a grown man's body. He sits with the rest of the kids waiting to see King Kong only to find out it is a man in an ape suit. He is not the main character in this book but I think he is one of the stars.