In Flannery O'Connor's great book, "Wise Blood", Hazel Motes, the main character of literature, is a hero struggling against his prophetic calling, but who turns out to be a Christian. martyr at the end of his long and vain trials. The development of the literature centers on the protagonist's struggle to flee from Jesus, who presents Jesus as "something horrible", and his eventual return to him. Hazel's movement through literature can therefore be seen as a journey: a modern man's progress from rebellion against God, to penance, and back to Him through the painful recognition of his sinful and fallen nature. The strident thesis of literature is underlined by its pattern of circular journey of escape and return to God. As a child, Hazel Motes is indoctrinated into religious fundamentalism by her grandfather, "an itinerant preacher, a waspish old man...with Jesus hiding in his head like a dart" (9). Over and over again, young Haze hears the searing sermon of his grandfather who, before a crowd, pointed out his grandson, “that thoughtless bad boy” and declared him “redeemed”: “That boy had been redeemed. and Jesus was never going to leave him…. Jesus would have it in the end! (10). Understanding Jesus as the devourer "hungry for souls", as "something horrible", the boy comes very early to the conclusion that "the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin" and, at age twelve years old, decides to follow the preacher's advice. calling like his grandfather. Additionally, Haze's mother, with "a cross-shaped face," reinforces her son's fundamentalist piety by equating the boy's germinal sexuality with sin. His chilling question “what did you see?” to the boy with a ashamed face who just glanced at a naked woman...... in the middle of a paper...... discovers. Hazel Motes endures the most painful until he comes back to the truth. The circular journey pattern underlines the theme of the literature, namely the impossibility of escaping the prophetic call and the enormous price a man must pay for his willful transgression of the divine order. The path to God that demands nothing less than everything is the most excruciating: at the end of the journey, Haze must lose his physical sight to gain spiritual vision and his life to escape the sordid earthly existence. In the preface to Wise Blood, O'Connor wrote that Haze's integrity lies in his "inability" to shed the "tattered figure" of Jesus. Wise Blood is, after all, the chronicle of a Christian who, paradoxically, achieves heroic stature by triumphantly failing to flee from God, who would "pursue him on the waters of sin »..”