We were not regularly allowance or food was coarse cornmeal boiled this was called much it was put into a large wooden tray or trough and sat down upon the ground the children were then called the like so many pigs and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush how does the objective style of this excerpt add power to the story and it uses a simile that refers to the children as pigs to avoid sentimentality

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up

Whats the best lie you told and got away with?

Based on the information in the passage, what conclusion can the reader make?