A Good Man Is Hard To Find Rhetorical Analysis
Imagery, metaphor, and symbolism are commonly used in both fiction and nonfiction literature to enhance authors’ descriptions. In her short story “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson uses the images of the lottery, the black box, and the stones, as metaphors to display how society induces violence into every new generation, the connection to tradition, and death/sacrifice. In his short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, Flannery O’Connor uses images of the Toombsboro town, the hearse, and the cloudless, sunless sky as metaphors for death, violence, and emptiness. These metaphors emphasize the concept of the severe violence and death in society. Both carver and Jackson use symbolism in their short stories to add intensity to their stories. Everyone
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The villagers are afraid of the box and the lottery, but they are also too afraid of letting go of any of them. Many of us fear change because it is something we are not usually used to, which can be intimidating to most of us.
Jackson also uses the stones as a metaphor for death. The stones are also part of the tradition of the lottery. In the beginning of the story Jackson shows the reader how the kids had their pockets full of stones before the lottery started, which gives the reader an idea that this lottery is not your usual lottery.
Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. "Come on," she said. "Hurry up." …show more content…
Both, violence and death are metaphors that are also used in Jackson’s short story. There is also a town which is used as a metaphor for the violence and death happening, such as the village in Jackson’s short story. “Outside of Toombsboro she woke up and recalled an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady” (142). The town Toombsboro is mentioned before the family meets with The Misfit. The town itself sounds the same as ‘tomb’, the name makes it obvious for the reader to know that the family is going to suffer a
The villagers are afraid of the box and the lottery, but they are also too afraid of letting go of any of them. Many of us fear change because it is something we are not usually used to, which can be intimidating to most of us.
Jackson also uses the stones as a metaphor for death. The stones are also part of the tradition of the lottery. In the beginning of the story Jackson shows the reader how the kids had their pockets full of stones before the lottery started, which gives the reader an idea that this lottery is not your usual lottery.
Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. "Come on," she said. "Hurry up." …show more content…
Both, violence and death are metaphors that are also used in Jackson’s short story. There is also a town which is used as a metaphor for the violence and death happening, such as the village in Jackson’s short story. “Outside of Toombsboro she woke up and recalled an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady” (142). The town Toombsboro is mentioned before the family meets with The Misfit. The town itself sounds the same as ‘tomb’, the name makes it obvious for the reader to know that the family is going to suffer a