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People aren’t always how they seem. This much is the case for the short story “ the possibility of evil”. Miss Strangeworth is a prime example of this fact. A seemingly nice older lady that with closer inspection will suprise you. Miss Strangeworth character can be analyzed by her actions and what she says and does, and how this effects the people around her. Miss Strangeworth is a arrogant person and her actions support and further this claim. For example when put in a situation when her name…

1. Select two questions from the Discussion Questions for "A Good Man is Hard to Find" in the O'Connor folder. Answer each question in 5-8 specific sentences. Use quotes from the story as well. What does the grandmother do that causes the accident? What mistake about place does she make? How does her mistake fit with her personality? In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother ultimately causes the car accident by sneaking her cat on the family trip to Tennessee. It is…

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished - Nelson Mandela. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy conveys that in times of devastating calamity, fairness and justice always succeeds which displays the goodness within humanity. Fairness can occur even in the face of starvation. Starvation does not stop the goodness of humanity. “In a pocket of his knapsack he’d found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water…

Texas which opened my horizons on America’s beautiful landscape. From the major metropolitans to the simple country side has brought different and exciting views that one can only imagine if not experienced properly. The short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, tells a different tale of a trip that has gone horribly wrong. The road trip functions as a symbol of this journey through optimism, conflict, and despair. The road trip is symbolized through optimism. Optimism is defined in the short…

In this short story called A Good Man is Hard to Find the author shows examples of several important characters and influences. The grandma plays a significant role in this short story. The way she thinks and what she says largely directs how this story goes. The grandma had a moment where she connected with the misfit, but found herself in a completely different place. In this short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find written by Flannery O’Connor demonstrates how someone can seem to be a misfit…

In the end, selfish people always end up alone. That is exactly what happened to the grandmother in “ A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor. Bailey, the grandmother’s son, was taking his family to Florida. There was only one problem; the grandmother did not want to go to Florida, she grandmother wanted to go to Tennessee. The grandmother did everything in her power to change the families mind, resulting in the death of her and her family. Throughout the story, the grandmother is…

Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find takes us on the journey of unlikely receivers of redemptive grace. The story follows Grandmother and her family on a road expedition to their approaching fate carried out by the Misfit and his associated convicts. Flannery O’Connor presents exaggerations in her characters to demonstrate their depraved sense of character. The main theme is acknowledged through a last moment epiphany towards the end of the story. Flannery O’Conner sets the reader up…

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor is about a family that is going on a vacation to Florida however the grandmother does not wish to go. The family leaves with the two older children complaining about Tennessee and Georgia landscaping. The grandmother tells the kids some stories while on the road and convinces them of a secret panel within her old house. This causes the children to kick and scream until their father agrees to see the house, leading to a car accident causing them…

The short story "Good People" was written by David Foster Wallace and it was published in the February 5, 2007 issue of the New Yorker. The short story potrayts a story line following the tumultuous thoughts of a 19 years old boy as he sits on a bench in quiet with is pregnant girlfriend and deals with the very important matter of an unwanted pregnacy which contrasts their values and beliefs. Wallace's preferences of devices and techniques on the narrative point of view clearly affect the reader…

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flanner O'Connor was an extremely famous author from Savannah, Georgia who was able to create vivid stories through his writing career. One of most renowned characters in his works, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, stated “There is no real pleasure in life” (O’Conner) however, there are many pleasurable things in life. Flanner experienced many hardships growing up in the nineteen-twenties. It was not only a time of The Great Depression, but her father died of lupus when…