6/12/2023 0 Comments The river by peter heller summary![]() ![]() When Harry arrives at the Connin farm, he discovers that the world of the farm is quite different from the world he knows at home. Connin's attention by claiming that his own name is also Bevel. Harry, starved for affection, succeeds in gaining Mrs. Connin are riding the trolley to the outskirts of town, she tells him about the faith healer they are going to see, an itinerant preacher named Bevel Summers. ![]() Connin will do - that is, she will "fix" Harry "right," for Christ's sake.Īs Harry and Mrs. Connin complains that Harry "ain't fixed right," his father replies, "Well then for Christ's sake fix him." Little does he realize that that will be just what Mrs. Because his father is hardly awake at six o'clock in the morning, he pushes the boy into the hall without having properly dressed him. Harry's mother is suffering from a hangover and remains in bed. She is a backwoods religious fundamentalist who believes in faith healing. ![]() His family occupies their time by giving parties and sleeping late the following day.Īs the story opens, Harry is being prepared by his father to go off with a sitter, Mrs. Harry is about four or five years old, and he is the only child of an urban family which has little time to spend with him. The story is told from an omniscient point-of-view and covers a two-day span in the life of the main character, Harry Ashfield. In this story, which is one of O'Connor's early works, her use of color imagery and her use of symbols are already well developed. ![]()
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