Character Analysis: A Trip To Florida

Bailey, a character from this story, decided to take a trip to Florida. His grandmother would much rather visit east Tennessee and was trying to convince him to not go to Florida. She tells him to read something from a newspaper, about The Misfit on the loose and heading towards Florida. Her son did not listen and her grandchild, John Wesley, asks her why she cannot just stay at home. June Star tells him she would not stay at home for anything. The next morning they headed out. The grandmother took her cat with them on the trip. As they drive, the grandmother tells her son about the speed limit and pointed out details of the scenery they were passing. The children were reading comic books then they ate lunch. She told them a story when she …show more content…
Once, when no one was home, he left the watermelon at the front porch and a boy ate it when he saw the initials. After this story, they stopped at The Tower for barbecued sandwiches. They went inside and payed a music machine to play a song. June star dances to the song. Red Sam tells his wife to get the people’s orders finished. They tell them how you cannot trust anyone in this world. How “a good man is hard to find.” Red Sam and the grandmother talk about better times. After the children played outside for a little bit, they drove off again. The grandmother told them about a house they were passing and how nice it would be to stop by and look at it. The children wanted to see it too so they started yelling and whining. The father got annoyed and told them this will be the only time they will stop. As they go down the dirt path towards the house, a thought comes to the grandmother’s mind. She thought she might have mistaken the house to be in a different state. The cat jumps out onto Bailey and they have a car accident. They sat by a ditch to relax from the shock. They see a car driving by with three men inside. They come out, and the grandmother recognizes one of them as the …show more content…
The grandmother keeps telling the Misfit that he is a good man and he should not harm them. They lead Bailey and John to the woods behind