O’Connor was a devout Catholic, who described her theme as “moments of Grace . . . prepared for by the intensity of evil circumstances.” Where do you see both sides of this statement presented in the story?

The above question refers to "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"

Answer and Explanation:

The moments of grace can be seen in the story when Tom Shiftlet who had nothing, finds a place to stay, a family, a job and a wife who does not care about his financial condition, allowing him to have a peaceful and free life problems and can then live away from the rot of the world, which is something he wants.

However, the intensity of the evil circumstances can be seen when he decides to leave his mentally ill wife and leave without any explanation and leaving her totally unable to take care of herself. At that moment, Tom not only refuses his grace, but allows the evil one to control his actions by doing vile and inhuman things.

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to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).