A Car and A Church Flannery O Connors novel Wise Blood 1952 is the story of a very confused man named Hazel Motes who lives in Taulkinham Tennessee Hazel has recently been let go from the military due to his injuries During Hazels time spent in the military he is told that he does not have a soul and believes this assumption His grandfather was a preacher who taught Christianity from the hood of his car and also traveled Hazel later creates his own church after he witnessed a blind man preachin