1. 毕业设计（论文）主要内容：

Thispaper will explore the psychology and situation of Julian who is a representative of young and progressivesoutherners. He has the thought of racial equality, and tries to change his mother'sattitude towards blacks. However in his dream he hopes to return to the pastand fails to deal with friendly relationship with blacks. In other words, Julianhas trouble of acting on his own convictions and unable to fully treat blacksas his equals. Furthermore, the paper will also analyze the reasons behindJulian’s contradictory behavior including tradition, education, or culturalbackground.

2. 毕业设计（论文）主要任务及要求

1. Search online and choose the novel to work on

2. search for the related resources to identify the topic for the paper.

3. read the original novel and work out the outline.

4. write the paper on schedule.

5. The paper should give an elaborate and exhaustive research on the given topic with independent work.

3. 毕业设计（论文）完成任务的计划与安排

Before 15th, January settlement of the title

before 25th, February submission of the outline

before 25th, April submission of the first draft

before 24th, May revision of the draft

before 30th, May, submission of the final pape

4. 主要参考文献

[1] o'connor, flannery . everythingthat rises must converge[m]. farrarstraus giroux, 1965.

[2] zadeh, mohammad reza modarres. areading of flannery o’connors “everything that rises must converge”[j].international letters of social and humanistic sciences, 2013(4): 5-10.

[3] 陈曦 . 南方文化痼疾之解剖：弗兰纳里·奥康纳的短篇小说研究[d] . 苏州大学硕士论文，2014.