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“But Spinks is evil! What teacher would suggest an educational trip to the Globe Theater for spring break?!” I continued to mope. My mom continued to toss things into my suitcase, considering I was protesting by refusing to pack myself. I decided to press the issue further by adding “A loving mother would take me to Florida with the rest of her children!” With an exasperated sigh, my mom put down the shirt she was folding and turned to me. “Jena,” my mom finally acknowledged me, “you’re…

I believe the theme of O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is violence grace. When speaking about this short story, O'Connor states, “I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace.” In the story, every member of the family act rude and are very self-absorbed. The character who is most selfish is the grandmother. She does not take any one else into consideration, and she does act upon grace or…

Short Story #1 A Good Man is Hard to Find. By: Flannery O’Connor The setting of this book takes place in Atlanta Georgia and the family will be going on a trip to Florida. During the story the setting changes to a ditch where the family has crashed their car, the ditch is said to be ten feet below the road. The plot of this short story starts out with this family taking a road trip to Florida, the Grandmother doesn't want to go to Florida because she reads about some escaped convicts on the…

A Good Man is Hard to Find was an interesting story. It started off with a solid hook that piqued my interest and prompted me to continue reading. After the hook, the author kept my attention by her immediate use of foreshadowing while at the same time introducing us to the personality of the grandmother. She tells her son that “The Mist is aloose…and headed toward Florida. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal…”(337). I thought that this was effective way showing the…

Without even realizing it, I found myself asking what happened. It was as if I was trapped in this trance that I couldn’t get out of. She made me feel similar to how I felt with Estella , trapped in a force that I couldn’t escape, no matter how hard I tried. Yet, when I was with Rosabella, she didn’t try to degrade me like Estella would, and her beauty was so majestic and stunning to the eye, that she made Estella almost seem “common”. She was as kind as Biddy from what I could tell, and had the…

The exiles of both men lead them to separate from Christ. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” the Misfit cannot reconcile a world that would remove him so thoroughly and without remorse with one in which Christ’s teachings are true, and has thus removed himself from both. When speaking with the Grandmother, he says, “Jesus shown everything off balance. It was the same with him as with me except He hadn’t committed any crime and they could prove I had committed one because they had the papers on me”…

The author of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” both employ dialogue to help readers understand the theme, evil is everywhere. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Joyce Carol Oates deals with the fifteen year-old Connie. Connie is a young girl who enjoys going out with friends and meeting boys. One night out, she glanced upon a guy staring her way, sensing no harm by the impression. A Sunday afternoon, Connie stays home alone while her family attends a…

to Florida, a dangerous misfit on the loose is her main point. Little did the grandmother know that she and her family would soon be going to Florida and faced with the misfit right away. The foundation of irony in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good man is Hard to Find is established right away in the short story. The grandmother alludes to many ironic facts that will take place later in the story. O’Connor uses an ironic…

From the beginning of the story, the grandmother acts selfishly. In some ways, she is also sarcastic. Two paragraphs into the story the family plans a trip to go to Florida. The grandmother never has any intentions of actually going to Florida; she has her mind set on going to Tennessee. Every chance she gets, she tries putting thoughts into her son, Bailey’s head, trying to change his mind. A way she comes up with to change Bailey’s mind is to mention the newspaper’s report about a murderer…

In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O’ Conner shows that Bailey, is an example of a good man. O’ Conner ideal of a good man Bailey sure is the opposite Bailey doesn’t listen to his mother about the Misfit and him being stubborn is the reason the family ends up going to Florida. Bailey also makes hasty decisions based on whining and griping like trying to find a mansion with a secret door in it Bailey is the son of the unnamed grandmother. His family doesn’t respect him or takes him…