O'Connor, Flannery.: a Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Studies done by the National Child Study indicate that children's views are larely shaped by "caregiver/child interactions throught childhood"("Measuring"). John Wesley and June Star's mother and father seem to be very passive and quiet with thier views. In comparison, the Grandmother is outspoken, opinionated, and presents herself as a religiously knowledgable, and there for trustworthy, person. The children seem to have picked up on her racist views as their normally argumentitive resopnses are absent when she makes condesending comments about an ovbiously poor "Negro child standing in the door of a shack"(O'connor) they pass on their trip. The impression of the grandmother's views into the children is also aparent when, rather than being appalled at her racist story about a suitor bringing her watermelon, "this story tickled John Wesley's funny bone and he giggled and giggled"(O'connor). Also, June Star shows signs of the same materialistic shelfishness of the Grandmother when she states that she "wouldn't marry a man that just brought her a watermelon on...
Cited: "Measuring Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Racism From a Developmental Perspective Workshop ." The National Children 's Study 24 June 2004 12 Oct 2008
O 'Connor, Flannery. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." 12 Oct 2008
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