Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, states that “Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”(44) Simply put, the things we find to be condemning traits in others could very well be the same traits we possess. This same statement is a strong theme demonstrated throughout the entire story; the misfit and the grandmother played a vital role in illustrating the theme to the reader in the story A Good Man is Hard to Find. The foreshadowing of the grandmother’s families death was used to convey the theme: no man is good or better than another, and that nobody is exempt from judgement. Through the use
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evil. The coincidences that occurred in this story comes from the author’s dialogue “They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island. “(139) and “Outside of Toombsboro she woke up and recalled an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady.”(142). The first statement exhibits foreshadowing by highlighting the six graves to ironically show and exhibit the six family members deaths. While the coincidence of the town name being Toombsboro further draws upon the idea of death soon approaching; the six graves indicates that death is soon approaching for the entire family. These two examples of foreshadowing solidifies that no matter whether good or evil everyone will be judged, and one should not look down upon someone else, because everyone has traits that are condemnable. The whole entire family even though perceived good compared to the obvious evil of the misfit had traits that could also deem them bad, and this idea of death never leaves the family at no point throughout this story. The idea of death is a representation of the idea of judgement coming which nobody can escape, and the theme allows the reader to better understand that nobody is good so we must not condemn nobody. That one should only see everyone as people on the same journey on the path of
evil. The coincidences that occurred in this story comes from the author’s dialogue “They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island. “(139) and “Outside of Toombsboro she woke up and recalled an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady.”(142). The first statement exhibits foreshadowing by highlighting the six graves to ironically show and exhibit the six family members deaths. While the coincidence of the town name being Toombsboro further draws upon the idea of death soon approaching; the six graves indicates that death is soon approaching for the entire family. These two examples of foreshadowing solidifies that no matter whether good or evil everyone will be judged, and one should not look down upon someone else, because everyone has traits that are condemnable. The whole entire family even though perceived good compared to the obvious evil of the misfit had traits that could also deem them bad, and this idea of death never leaves the family at no point throughout this story. The idea of death is a representation of the idea of judgement coming which nobody can escape, and the theme allows the reader to better understand that nobody is good so we must not condemn nobody. That one should only see everyone as people on the same journey on the path of