Reading question on "Good Country People" by Flannery O 'Connor
1) In the Good Country People’s short story, Joy-Hulga is also a college educated person, but the bad is she has a bad view about Christian religious faith. She thinks the Christian religious faith is a fairly common view. The Christian religious faith needs a strong btrust about the concepts like a divine is walking the earth in a human form, rebirth from the dead and virgin birth. People that have an intelligent mind in education will face a difficulty to rational it.
2) Based on her belief, she refuses the name of Joy as unimportant. Then, she takes the name of Hulga because she has lost believe in spiritualism and substitutes it with an intellectualism. Hulga arranges a plan to demonstrate her intelligence to Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell …show more content…
In this story, each of the characters shows that they are not example of “good country people.” They are all the same with other people making sins every day. Mrs. Hopewell is a simple woman. “Her name suggests that she prefers to think the best of people and situations, but this is undermined by her pride in being ‘good country people’ and not ‘trash’.” However, her mistake is she cannot judges between good and bad. We can this through her warm acceptance of Manley Pointer, when he says he is “just a country boy” and greets her with “hope all is well.’” Mrs. Hulga is rude and angry. She believes that she is better than the “good country people”, but in the end of the story, she realizes that she is not smart like she thinks she is.
7) The religious value expressed in this story is an atheism. Hulga starts to begin the pain when she involves in a gun accident that blowing off the bottom half of her leg. From that moment, she starts to isolate herself from the community. She is using her time to grab a PhD in philosophy. However, she is really absolute about atheism. For her, there is no life ends at death and
1) In the Good Country People’s short story, Joy-Hulga is also a college educated person, but the bad is she has a bad view about Christian religious faith. She thinks the Christian religious faith is a fairly common view. The Christian religious faith needs a strong btrust about the concepts like a divine is walking the earth in a human form, rebirth from the dead and virgin birth. People that have an intelligent mind in education will face a difficulty to rational it.
2) Based on her belief, she refuses the name of Joy as unimportant. Then, she takes the name of Hulga because she has lost believe in spiritualism and substitutes it with an intellectualism. Hulga arranges a plan to demonstrate her intelligence to Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell …show more content…
In this story, each of the characters shows that they are not example of “good country people.” They are all the same with other people making sins every day. Mrs. Hopewell is a simple woman. “Her name suggests that she prefers to think the best of people and situations, but this is undermined by her pride in being ‘good country people’ and not ‘trash’.” However, her mistake is she cannot judges between good and bad. We can this through her warm acceptance of Manley Pointer, when he says he is “just a country boy” and greets her with “hope all is well.’” Mrs. Hulga is rude and angry. She believes that she is better than the “good country people”, but in the end of the story, she realizes that she is not smart like she thinks she is.
7) The religious value expressed in this story is an atheism. Hulga starts to begin the pain when she involves in a gun accident that blowing off the bottom half of her leg. From that moment, she starts to isolate herself from the community. She is using her time to grab a PhD in philosophy. However, she is really absolute about atheism. For her, there is no life ends at death and