1. How does the idea of good versus evil come into play in this story? Use examples from the text to explain your answer.
The idea of good versus evil can be seen within the characters. The grandmother portrays goodness, and the criminal represents evil. The grandmother seems to think that goodness comes from being decent, having good manners as well as coming from a good family. The Misfit seems to show no remorse and genuinely seems unfazed from doing cruel things such as killing a family. He admits that he's done things that are wrong by other people's standards, but they don't feel wrong to him.
2. What adjectives would you use to describe the grandmother? Is she all good/all bad/a combination? Do you recognize others you know in her …show more content…
At the beginning of, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, we are made aware that the Grandmother does not want to go to Florida. She wants to visit her relations in Tennessee. She wants this desperately that she tells her family about a killer who is on the run from the federal pen and headed down the same highway toward Florida. “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did. “Instead of staying on the highway she begs her son Bailey to turn off the road so she can see the old plantation she visited when she was a girl. She is determined to see the old plantation that she will do everything in her power to change Bailey’s mind, including lying: “There was a secret panel in this house,” she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing that she were, “and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through but it was never found…” The Grandmother has lied to get her way as well as clearly defying her son’s request not to bring the cat. The Grandmother does not have bad intentions, she is a good person. However, her actions make her seem that she is a bad person because she does not seem to care about anybody else’s feelings except her own. The Grandmother actually reminds me of my grandmother. My grandmother will always get her way once she has set her mind to something. Just like the grandmother in the story mine is hard-headed and
The idea of good versus evil can be seen within the characters. The grandmother portrays goodness, and the criminal represents evil. The grandmother seems to think that goodness comes from being decent, having good manners as well as coming from a good family. The Misfit seems to show no remorse and genuinely seems unfazed from doing cruel things such as killing a family. He admits that he's done things that are wrong by other people's standards, but they don't feel wrong to him.
2. What adjectives would you use to describe the grandmother? Is she all good/all bad/a combination? Do you recognize others you know in her …show more content…
At the beginning of, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, we are made aware that the Grandmother does not want to go to Florida. She wants to visit her relations in Tennessee. She wants this desperately that she tells her family about a killer who is on the run from the federal pen and headed down the same highway toward Florida. “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did. “Instead of staying on the highway she begs her son Bailey to turn off the road so she can see the old plantation she visited when she was a girl. She is determined to see the old plantation that she will do everything in her power to change Bailey’s mind, including lying: “There was a secret panel in this house,” she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing that she were, “and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through but it was never found…” The Grandmother has lied to get her way as well as clearly defying her son’s request not to bring the cat. The Grandmother does not have bad intentions, she is a good person. However, her actions make her seem that she is a bad person because she does not seem to care about anybody else’s feelings except her own. The Grandmother actually reminds me of my grandmother. My grandmother will always get her way once she has set her mind to something. Just like the grandmother in the story mine is hard-headed and