Naomi Long Professor Lockhart English 1102 February 07, 2012 “A Goodman is Hard to Find” Imagine driving for hours on vacation only to be murdered by a serial killer. Unfortunately this is the reality of Flannery O'Connor's character, a nameless grandmother, in “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Driven by her self-righteousness, the grandmother considers herself morally superior to others because she is a faithful lady. As the story unfolds the reader's discover that the grandmother is morally corrupt, and awakens to her moral corruption through the antagonist, The Misfit. O'Connors use of foreshadowing and characterization conveys the general idea that their is a thin line
She is a lair, manipulated her family, hypocritical and judgmental. In the end, the story suggests she died with divine grace but who can know that for sure? Did the Grandmother want forgiveness for her sins? The story does not lead us in that direction. Up until the very end the Grandmother appears to be trying to save her life any way she can.
I don’t think that even the Christian and pagan action came to Grendel’s mother mind. Grendel’s mother had a delinquent son and knew he was bad, she didn’t want him dead. Grendel’s death was punishment for all the previously committed murders. This proves the case of the phrase that society use ‘only a mother could
Jocelyn Hunt Mrs. Cruel EN 111 April 4, 2013 Neighbors or Murderers There is a known quote that says, “It takes a village to raise a child,” but should a village have a hand in killing an innocent person? In two stories, an innocent woman was killed involuntarily and voluntarily by her community. An entire community should not play a role in the death of a resident or neighbor; he or she should help his or her neighbors thrive, and try to help and save each other’s’ lives. In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”, a small town conducts an annual raffle that gambles on the lives of innocent people. Town residents young and old pick pieces of paper out of a “black wooden box” (Jackson 312), and if he or she picks a blank piece of paper, his or her life is safe.
CHARACTER ANALYSIS Character Analysis The grandmother in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is selfish and manipulative. The very first thing that is learned about her is that she does not want to go to Florida because she has relatives in Tennessee that she would rather go visit. Then the second thing about her is that whenever something runs up against the grandmother's will, she still tries to have it her way. She never does this openly or bluntly, though. Her style is always a bit more indirect.
Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead. She remains in a leadership position when she finds the eldest pet still alive and tells the others to help it while she runs inside to see what had happened to her parents. As Ellie wrote after the traumatic incident, “I knew that nothing sp awful could have happened to the dogs unless something more awful could have happened to my parents.” Although she says she had lost all rational thought. She still made good decision when the tragic events that had happened were unravelling before her. “They lay beside their little galvanized iron humpies, flies all over them, oblivious to the last warmth of the sun”.
Gentlemen, I beg you to observe these girls: One has just now lost her mind; the other, It seems has never had a mind at all (1.150) said Creon. Creon humiliates his own nieces publicly. Tragic flaw is a very important characteristic for a tragic hero. Both Creon and Antigone have a very strong sense of pride, but Antigone’s tragic flaw is her lack of fight. Antigone was very heroic and brave at first, Creon now punishes her, and she does not fight back, but she simply badmouths her father.
Sinning " We are not Hester the worst sinners in the world, there is one worse than even the polluted priest!"(191). Arthur says that they aren't the worst sinners.In the novel The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur, Hester are not the worst sinners, Roger chillingworth is. The Least most sinful is Hester Prynne because she Wed the old man. For example, Hester confessed why she had married chillingworth in the first place because first of all they never really loved eachother. She married Roger out of social and economic necessity.
In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother is the main character. She is a snobby old woman who only has faith is these words, “I’m a lady” (pg. 507). In her last moments of breath, she tries to plead with her murderer, the Misfit, by adding prayer and Jesus into the picture when she knows that Jesus and prayer are not the faith she is using to save her life when she says to the Misfit,
Anna Ivory Mr. Rowan English 1B 3 29 2012 Grace Settles Within In Flannery O’Connor’s southern gothic, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother in the story and The Misfit are both recipients of grace, despite their many flaws, sins, and weaknesses. Religion plays a vital role in the brutal actions within this gothic story through the anger and questions it stirs up; angering The Misfit and causing him to go on a killing rampage. This seemingly harmless story starts out by a discussion of a family road trip to Florida . The outspoken Grandmother begs the family not to travel to Florida, explaining they have already been there, but to travel east of Tennessee instead. Having convincing her clan