that seep into his skull and Hulga has a wooden leg‚ has heart problems and is pretentious. The characters that are the most existentialist are usually the most grotesque. O’Connor has these beliefs because she was raised in a catholic family. In Good Country People Hulga believes that she is saving people from having illusions because she believes she does not fall into that sort of stuff. She is selfish and just like Hazel‚ she only comes to see the error of her ways after something horrible happens
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Arman Abbasi Dr. Erin Walsh English 101 15 April 2013 “Good Country People”: The Twin Dragons of Image and Language “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor tells the story of a thirty-two year old handicapped woman originally named Joy but later Hulga with a PhD in philosophy. Towards the end of the story‚ the supposedly intelligent and cunning Hulga is seduced by a supposedly simple‚ naïve‚ and innocent-looking Bible salesman by the name of Manley Pointer. As in Revelations
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based solely on older traditions and mindsets. In “Good Country People‚” Mrs. Hopewell‚ a middle-aged mother‚ assumes and concludes that she can trust a Bible salesman who stops at her door because he appears to be from the country. “...[Hopewell and her daughter] had had a nice visitor yesterday‚ a young man selling Bibles. ‘Lord‚’ [Hopewell] said‚ ‘he bored me to death but he was so sincere and genuine I couldn’t be rude to him. He was just good country people‚ you know‚’ she said‚ ‘—just the salt of
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3 The Significance of O’Connor’s Short Story’s Title “Good Country People” In my opinion‚ Flannery O’Connor has decided to use “Good Country People” as the title of this short story because she wants it to be sarcasm. The title of the story is completely reverse to all the characters appearing in the story. All of them are not actually good country people at all. They are just some people who seem to be good. We can see how “Good Country People” is sarcasm by looking at each characters but in
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What’s in a Name? The names in “Good Country People” are actually descriptive of the characters. One in particular is the character of Mrs. Hopewell. In short‚ she tends to be a very hopeful and well-to-do. She holds a hope in the goodness of the country people‚ and she uses cliches to help her explain and accept the vices of other people. Unfortunately‚ she holds a false reality and places her hope in those with less than honorable intentions for the most part. Mrs. Hopewell lives in her own
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Carmen Hernandez English 1010 September 16‚ 2013 In the short story‚ “Good Country People”‚ Flannery O’Connor introduces the character “Joy”‚ later known as “Hulga.” Hulga is a cruel‚ unhappy‚ and unfriendly person. Although‚ she is a harsh person‚ she is actually afraid‚ afraid of the world and of being judged. The three character traits which describe Hulga are angry‚ miserable‚ and frustrated. Particularly‚ O’Connor presents Hulga as an angry person because Hulga is never happy. Her unhappiness
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Sometimes people see exactly what they expect to see. When the family meets the traveling Bible salesman named Manley Pointer in “Good Country People”‚ they see him as an honest young man trying to make a living. However‚ when he seduces the learned daughter‚ Hulga‚ she finds out his true nature. Instead of a religious man who wants to spread the Will of God‚ he is a cynical atheist who uses his salesman disguise to get what he wants. As literary critic Kathleen Feeley says‚ “That the salesman is
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Choose three or four characters from Cat’s Cradle and Good Country People and discuss them in terms of existentialism and nihilism? 	In both Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonegut and Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor the authors show how a character is corrupted and changed from an existentialist to a nihilist. The existentialist ends up losing their faith in life‚ and is left believing in nothing. They then turn to being nihilist after having the only thing they believed destroyed. In both
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Strengths and Weaknesses of Kate Oliver’s Analysis of “Good Country People” Kate Oliver’s analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” claims that Joy-Hulga’s physical symbolizes her emotional impairments. By going into detail of the context of O’Connor’s original short story‚ Kate Oliver is able to make an overall moderately strong argument of how she feels she is correct in her analysis. Oliver is able to make a strong argument when she writes about Joy-Hulga’s emotional detachment
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Martial Law - A Coup Of The Country Against Itself “My countrymen‚ as of the twenty first of this month‚ I signed Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under Martial Law.” There have been 3 declarations of Martial Law in the Philippines and the miscarriage of logic started at the second. The truth about the “dictatorship” and the sense of “opposition” collides up until today. But what really happened before‚ during and after the Martial Law is the only way to dispel the
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