Mark O'Connor

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…

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 but later can find their way. The grandma plays the role of a “misfit” a couple of times throughout this short story. At the beginning she suggested not going to Florida, but going somewhere…

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 with a surprising new…

right up there with the white folks." (O’Connor, 9) As Mrs. Turpin was saying this, it shows what Flannery O’Connor was willing to have the characters say in order to fit in completely in the south as a white character. With the setting in the south, most characters of Flannery's writing are racist but it fits the setting. And many other little stereotypical southern things, like little farms and diners, are present in Flannery’s writing. Flannery O’Connor uses a racist, judgmental and selfish…

“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…

The hate and bitterness of his “snarl” is the final implication as to how the Misfit feels about religion (O’Connor 645). Bellamy insists that the reason for the devilish message in the Misfit’s speech is due to his mission to play to role of the Anti-Christ. Bellamy asserts that, “The central message of the Misfit’s sermon, for a sermon is what his remarks amount to, is a familiar one in Flannery O’Connor’s fiction; there is no middle ground between absolute belief in Christ’s messianic fiction…

worse than him. He has this crazy but true philosophy “the crime don’t matter.” (O’Connor )In a religious view the Misfit is saying, sin is sin no matter what you just as bad as…

Connor was born in 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. The theme that O’Connor often used in her work is religious themes, probably influenced by her Catholic parents. Furthermore, she is the only child of her parents. She had her education in parochial grammar school and high school. Her father died of lupus, a rare and incurable disease. Unfortunately, O’Connor suffered the same disease and died of lupus before her fortieth birthday. O’Connor is known as an American great writer, “Despite her brief…