Considering other in the first place, providing service with one’s own willing, waiting the assignment from God, and having unique characteristics are the key to success. Humbleness is a huge challenge for the leaders in practice, as long as the new leaders are willing to lead like Jesus and be humble like him. Furthermore, “Humility begins when you have a true picture of yourself” (p. 41). Humility comes from self-awareness and assist the new leaders located the true standard for their life. Additionally, humble your heart is mean to accept varieties of opinions, even the ones do not agree with, however, at least let others to present their ideas.
The theme in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” that was O’Connor did a good job of revealing was good vs. evil. The family faces a lot of problems during the story. One of the problems they have is that they all cannot get along. Good versus evil has always been a problem and always will be. Without evil then there can’t be good or without good then there can’t be evil.
_ Instead of staying behind the morning of the trip, the grandmother is the first one in the car. While traveling the grandmother tells the children a made up story about a plantation house that she had once visited with a secret panel only to excite the children so they would beg their parents to visit it. After a trip down the long dirt road the grandmother realizes that the plantation house was not in Georgia but in Tennessee. Too embarrassed to admit her mistake she causes her cat who she secretly concealed into the car jump out onto her son Baily who is driving. He then crashes the car into a ditch and the family is stranded.
Like in Away, Melanie escapes to the beach in the storm where she meets her true love, Jake. For Melanie coming back to Alabama was not to escape, it was to face her fears and her identity. Melanie also represents Coral, when takes control of the reality that her son had died and buried it in the past and go on with her life and focusing more on her
There are several examples of her deceitful and untrustworthy actions. In the beginning of the story, “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida” (O’ Connor 9), so she made up false excuses to try to persuade her family to take her to Tennessee. On the way to Florida, she lied to the children about the secret panel by telling them, “‘There was a secret panel in this house not telling the truth but wishing that she were” (O’ Connor 16,17) so she can get what she wants and visit the old plantation. She also chooses not to reveal that she made a mistake about the location of the house. In addition, the grandmother talks about Jesus with The Misfit when she hopes that it might help save her life.
(Omelas, 259). The fact these people do not know of a world outside their own is another reason they believe so strongly someone must struggle for many to prosper. “They also got along without the stock exchange, the advertisement, the secret police, and the bomb”. (Omelas, 259). The people of the village in Omelas were some who no longer knew happiness or joy which played a major role in the way their victims were made to suffer.
By doing that, the cat that she snuck on the trip jumped out of the basket and made Bailey wreck the car. There was a car coming down the road and to the family’s surprise it was the Misfit and his crew. To their surprise, their life ended prematurely. “A Good Man is Hard Find” represents the work of a higher power. The death of the family might be an expression of an underlying design.
The grandmothers childish ways greatly contributes to their deaths. The grandmothers idea to go on a wild chase pushes Bailey over the edge and even makes the cat freak out and Bailey flips the car. The grandmothers try’s to talk her way out of death but it does not work in her favor. She is a mess of a woman that causes her own family to be killed. O’Conner creates a crazy grandmother who unfortunately causes the bad situation.
September 10, 2012 Standing Your Ground in Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” In Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the grandmother is a main character in the story whose moral value is revealed later to be little to none. The grandmother keeps referring herself to being a “lady” even though throughout the story she is very self-centered, and stubborn, wanting things done her way. In the beginning, she is eager to show how she feels against the family taking vacation to Florida. Instead she wants to travel to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee. While traveling, the grandmother is best dressed from head to toe with her collars and cuffs being white organdy trimmed with lace, so in case of an accident she would be seen
His mother defends the side trip as educational and entices the family with stories of treasures behind secret panels. As they start down the dirt road, the previously smuggled cat is thrown into Bailey’s neck causing him to swerve and roll over into a ditch. After the accident Bailey’s rage is vividly pictured in detail “Bailey’s teeth were clattering”. (454) His mother, realizing her error in judgment, decides not to explain the fabrication of her story “the grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee”. (455) Again, we see these two important characters of the story concerned with only each other‘s existence having little or no regard for the other members of the family.