Daniel+Shiftlet

__Tom T. Shiftlet __ //The Life You Save May Be Your Own// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAX7je5ur9o Flannery O'Connor



Name is Tom T. Shiftlet. People lemme tell you something I understand life thoroughly, but you have never seen me before: how do you know if I am telling the truth? Nowadays people can get away with just saying anything. A Man is made of two things his body and spirit. His body is concrete, it always there, but his spirit always moves. I follow my spirit and that is all I care about. Where ever it wants to go I take it. People I have questions, questions that no one that I have asked can answer. I think about these questions, but I can never get the answer. Lemme tell you my mother raised me right, she was a good woman. She raised me how you were supposed to and she made me into a man. I see the wrongs of the world and the only way I see fit to correct it is to start over. I keep traveling around, asking people my questions and telling them what should be done, but no one listens to me. I guess I just have to keep following my spirit.
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**Family**: Mr. Shiflt has no family, he is a tramp. He travels along stopping where people will let him in to stay or eat. In all the readers know that he had a mother; however sometime in the past he ran away from home from unknown reasons. He is alone in every traditional sense. He has no family or friends just himself.

Within the story I represent an anti-Christ figure. I come and perform miracles like fixing the car and teaching a deaf girl to speak; however in the end I reject all that was given to me. I could also be called a conman, but I just need a car and they were not using it.
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My Creator: She created me and the story "A Life You Save May Be Your Own" along with thirty other short stories. She was born in 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. She was the only child of a catholic family. She grew up within the bible belt and this strong religious influence impacted her work greatly. She contributed many works of the southern gothic style to American literature. Many of her story stories can mean different thing to different people, but most of her work makes people take a look inward to the wrongs they have done.