Christianity Is Everywhere Analysis

Christianity is Everywhere After reading and analyzing multiple pieces of southern literature, one can effortlessly conclude, Christianity is a vital part of southern culture. Each piece of literature mentioned below displays some sort of connection with the Christian faith. With just a morsel of intellectual analyzation one can conclude that although the south may not be centered on Christianity, it is most certainly evident in many aspects of it. For example, the short story titled “Sweat” written by Zora Neale Hurston, a rugged independent black woman named Delia is being abused by her husband, Sykes (Hurston 2). Sykes is unemployed and relies on Delia to support his drunken, gambling lifestyle, as well as, his affair with his corpulent snaggletooth mistress, Betty. Hurston writes “Delia’s work-worn knees crawled over the earth in Gethsemane and up the rocks of Cavalry many, many times during these months. She avoided the villagers and meeting places in her efforts to be blind and deaf”

When the deceptive “bible salesman” leaves with Hulga’s artificial leg and tells her he believes in the nothing “she turned her churning face toward the opening, she saw his blue figure struggling successfully over the green speckled lake” (O’Connor 451). The image being portrayed here is of a man walking over a lake, much like Jesus did. The bible says “And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on sea” (Mat. 14.25). Hulga seeing the man appear to be walking over the lake opens her eyes to a different perspective just as it did for Peter in the bible. She is not like the phony bible salesman, she is aware that she does not know everything, and that everything is not set in stone, there is more to learn and more possibilities than one could ever know and that is a vital aspect of