Book Review for Wise Blood

My Novel is Wise Blood by Flannery O'Conner. The genres of my book is fiction and southern Gothic.  The main character's in Wise are Hazel Motes who is from Eastrod, Tennessee, Enoch Emory, Asa Hawks, Sabbath Lily Hawks, Mrs. Flood, and Onnie Jay Holly. In this novel Hazel Motes is having trouble with dealing with his religion and what path he would like to follow in life, so he results to founding a Church without Christ, because of seeing Asa Hawks with his daughter preaching one day. While Hazel was preaching one day Holly joined as one of his disciples, but it caused a conflict between the two when Hazel found out that Holly was using his foundation as a source of income and Hazel did not like that. Enoch Emery met Hazel while he was watching Asa Hawks preach and followed Hazel around, but all along he was dealing with mental health issues and trying to fight his "inner animal". The novel was in all actually interesting and different from anything else I've read. I liked Hazel's personality and how he did not hesitate to let people know of his beliefs, because although people in front of the movie theater did not like his beliefs nor understand them, he still continued to preach. I did not like how Hazel was really mean to Enoch because he needed someone to lean on and Hazel could have been an helping hand to stop him from going haywire. This novel is mainly targeted to a religious crowd, because throughout this novel many religions are being viewed and commented on.

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