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Foreignness and 'the Other'
In "The Displaced Person," Flannery O'Connor focuses on how the arrival the Guizac family –a family that has fled Poland during or soon after World War II – impacts the small farm where they take shelter. O'Connor uses extreme characters with extreme prejudices to show us what can happen when we focus on the differences between ourselves and others, instead of on the things we have in common.
The newsreel of Holocaust images that Mrs. Shortley sees is an inroad to discussing how news and media images of foreign places impacts anti-immigrant sentiment during World War II.
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