A Good Man Is Hard To Find Values Essay
Strong Values
Have values really change over the years? In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” values are really portrayed as being a thing in the past. Values such as family values and people values are really important and O’Connor really tries to get her point across by using the character from the family to show how they have lost respect towards each other and other people as well. The worst thing is that the characters don’t even realize how they act with each is actually wrong and don’t seem to do anything about it because of the lack of discipline.
The family really has no values at all, this all due to not having respect towards one and other. John Wesley and June Star the children in the family show a great deal of having no family values at all. These children are very obnoxious and out spoken. For example when John Wesley disrespectfully interrupts the conversation that the father is having with the grandmother about her not wanting to go to Florida he says ‘if you don’t want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay at home”. Then the little girl June Star adds in by saying “she wouldn’t stay at home to be queen for a day”. These are clear examples that family values are not important to these kids because they are quick to back talk to the grandmother. …show more content…
June Star the daughter tells Red Sam’s wife about why she wouldn’t want to live with them. June Star says "No I certainly wouldn’t, I wouldn't live in a broken-down place like this for a million bucks!” Also the grandmother doesn’t really show any values at all because of her racist comments using words such as, nigger and pickaninny. These are words that people will find offensive but due to having no values she doesn’t see any wrong. This brings to my next
Have values really change over the years? In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” values are really portrayed as being a thing in the past. Values such as family values and people values are really important and O’Connor really tries to get her point across by using the character from the family to show how they have lost respect towards each other and other people as well. The worst thing is that the characters don’t even realize how they act with each is actually wrong and don’t seem to do anything about it because of the lack of discipline.
The family really has no values at all, this all due to not having respect towards one and other. John Wesley and June Star the children in the family show a great deal of having no family values at all. These children are very obnoxious and out spoken. For example when John Wesley disrespectfully interrupts the conversation that the father is having with the grandmother about her not wanting to go to Florida he says ‘if you don’t want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay at home”. Then the little girl June Star adds in by saying “she wouldn’t stay at home to be queen for a day”. These are clear examples that family values are not important to these kids because they are quick to back talk to the grandmother. …show more content…
June Star the daughter tells Red Sam’s wife about why she wouldn’t want to live with them. June Star says "No I certainly wouldn’t, I wouldn't live in a broken-down place like this for a million bucks!” Also the grandmother doesn’t really show any values at all because of her racist comments using words such as, nigger and pickaninny. These are words that people will find offensive but due to having no values she doesn’t see any wrong. This brings to my next