“Revelation”

- Mrs. Turpin is a high self righteous woman who believes that she would give up things for anyone, no matter their position in life. She is totally contradiction to what she says and thinks such as she feels sorry for the people around her because they were of lower status.
- The author seems to simply let Mrs. Turpin think what she wants without changing her words. The author doesn’t seem to agree or even logically find a path through Mrs. Turpin’s thinking but represents it in a direct view from Mrs. Turpin.
- The teenager and her mother have the same angry mother – teenager resentment relationship many moms have with their daughters, just a bit more violent with the daughter. The mother feels as if the girl should be grateful where the daughter doesn’t seem to care about anything truly. Mrs. Turpin seems to anger the girl when she talks about being a happy person or trusting in Jesus or just being positive in general.
- The basic plot of this book is to see the thoughts of a self-righteous woman and see how they don’t seem to change even after violent events happen to her. The turning point is where the girl threw the book at Mrs. Turpin. It was the point in which she starts questioning her ideals and thinking on life. The conclusion was where she saw the souls like her and Claud going up but they were the only ones on key which shows she didn’t change at all.
- Mrs. Turpin is only nice to the black farm workers because she wants them to work. She shows her mean side by shunning them for trying to say anything nice to her or about her. She feels like their flattery is worth nothing and shouldn’t be even spoken because it’s basically a waste of her time.
- With the atmosphere of the story it was supposed to be the presence of God. The change of the setting and the different colors of the world was supposed to show how Mrs. Turpin sees the presence of the Lord.
- Finally every person is equal in the eyes of God. Mrs. Turpin still say her and Claud as the only two people singing on key.