Many may ask themselves, who is Flannery O’Connor? I asked myself the exact same question until I read one of her books for the first time. Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25,1925 in Savannah,Georgia. She faced many hardships throughout her life. In the year 1941 her father died of systemic lupus erythematosus.She was diagnosed with the same kind of lupus that killed her father in 1950. At the time, there was no cure for this disease but she managed to fight it for more than ten years. The fact that she was diagnosed inspired her to keep writing stories and not let the her lupus stop her. She then continued and wrote some of her best works ever known. The grand majority of her stories had to do with religion or southern themes.
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The concept of the Devil and God. Flannery O’Connor wrote A Good Man Is Hard To FInd, with that being a constant theme throughout the story. In the story, the key characters are the grandmother and the misfit. The grandmother represents the good side by having good manners and believing in goodness. Meanwhile, the misfit is pure evil with no guilt for all the bad things he does. There is the contrast here. The grandmother ,while on a roadtrip, accidently gives wrong directions and they go down a wrong road, This ends up in the entire family being killed and the last person alive is the grandmother. She then tries to use her religion to save her life. The misfit always questioned himself what was life and the true meaning of it? He created certain conclusions in his head due to experiences. He felt that even if you do good or wrong you will forget about it but be punished for it later. So he figured, might as well do bad and have no guilt because he is still going to be punished one way or another. The misfit is obviously very against religion and does not believe that God is good. This leads to the grandmother’s last attempt to remain alive when she tries to reach out to him but he shoots her three times in the chest. This is how the story ends. Flannery O’Connor used these two characters as examples of both good and bad. The idea that no matter what you do in life, whether it be good or bad, everybodies life will end and nobody can escape punishment. The idea of good and bad is very much connected to religion which is what O’Connor ties into this story as
The concept of the Devil and God. Flannery O’Connor wrote A Good Man Is Hard To FInd, with that being a constant theme throughout the story. In the story, the key characters are the grandmother and the misfit. The grandmother represents the good side by having good manners and believing in goodness. Meanwhile, the misfit is pure evil with no guilt for all the bad things he does. There is the contrast here. The grandmother ,while on a roadtrip, accidently gives wrong directions and they go down a wrong road, This ends up in the entire family being killed and the last person alive is the grandmother. She then tries to use her religion to save her life. The misfit always questioned himself what was life and the true meaning of it? He created certain conclusions in his head due to experiences. He felt that even if you do good or wrong you will forget about it but be punished for it later. So he figured, might as well do bad and have no guilt because he is still going to be punished one way or another. The misfit is obviously very against religion and does not believe that God is good. This leads to the grandmother’s last attempt to remain alive when she tries to reach out to him but he shoots her three times in the chest. This is how the story ends. Flannery O’Connor used these two characters as examples of both good and bad. The idea that no matter what you do in life, whether it be good or bad, everybodies life will end and nobody can escape punishment. The idea of good and bad is very much connected to religion which is what O’Connor ties into this story as