A Good Man Is Hard To Find Literary Analysis Essay
Tania Pacheco
English 1A
Mrs. Solorzano
Essay #4
November 8, 2010 Literary Analysis on “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” “Jesus!” the old lady cried. “You’ve got good blood! I know you wouldn’t shoot a lady! I know you come from nice people! Pray! Jesus you ought not shoot a lady. I’ll give you all the money I’ve got!” In the story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” the major theme is the theme of religion. The story is about a family that ends up going on a vacation to Tennessee, instead of Florida because the grandmother wants to go there. On their way the grandmother directs them to a dirt road, which she claims had a house that was pretty amazing with a secret panel. When to far in she realizes they are in the wrong place its not in Georgia but in Tennessee. It is to late they get in a car accident fortunately all of them are fine, but they come against the famous “Misfit,”(O’Connor) which happens to be a criminal that has escaped from jail and is on the loose and is very dangerous. The grandmother recognizes him and everything goes down hill for them at that point. In the end the poor family ends up getting killed. The main points in this story are Grace, and the way the word “Good” is misinterpreted by the grandmother. The grandmother tries to use grace as a way of not …show more content…
In this story there are two different aspects of a good man. First of all there is one good man that is mentioned in the story, which the grandmother calls Red Sammy a good man. Red Sammy was considered a good man because he let those couple of strangers charge their own gasoline. In the other hand the grandmother refers the Misfit, as being a good man also, despite the fact that he’s a criminal whom she knows is about to kill her family and her. In this case the grandmother has the meaning of a good man all wrong, these people are not good at all. One is a poor judgment, blind faith guy, and the other is a who never agrees that he will not kill
English 1A
Mrs. Solorzano
Essay #4
November 8, 2010 Literary Analysis on “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” “Jesus!” the old lady cried. “You’ve got good blood! I know you wouldn’t shoot a lady! I know you come from nice people! Pray! Jesus you ought not shoot a lady. I’ll give you all the money I’ve got!” In the story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” the major theme is the theme of religion. The story is about a family that ends up going on a vacation to Tennessee, instead of Florida because the grandmother wants to go there. On their way the grandmother directs them to a dirt road, which she claims had a house that was pretty amazing with a secret panel. When to far in she realizes they are in the wrong place its not in Georgia but in Tennessee. It is to late they get in a car accident fortunately all of them are fine, but they come against the famous “Misfit,”(O’Connor) which happens to be a criminal that has escaped from jail and is on the loose and is very dangerous. The grandmother recognizes him and everything goes down hill for them at that point. In the end the poor family ends up getting killed. The main points in this story are Grace, and the way the word “Good” is misinterpreted by the grandmother. The grandmother tries to use grace as a way of not …show more content…
In this story there are two different aspects of a good man. First of all there is one good man that is mentioned in the story, which the grandmother calls Red Sammy a good man. Red Sammy was considered a good man because he let those couple of strangers charge their own gasoline. In the other hand the grandmother refers the Misfit, as being a good man also, despite the fact that he’s a criminal whom she knows is about to kill her family and her. In this case the grandmother has the meaning of a good man all wrong, these people are not good at all. One is a poor judgment, blind faith guy, and the other is a who never agrees that he will not kill