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    Considered a Misfit The story that is going to be argued in this essay is “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ by Flannery O’Connor. Someone can know a person their whole life but yet never truly know what they are capable of doing. The “misfit” in the story could be a good guy but had something terrible happen to him that made him start wanting to kill people. We would say a misfit is someone that is different from others but we are all different in our own way. Does this mean that all of us are misfits? To some

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    “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”‚ the story has themes that are a universal truths that can withstand the test of time. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is Flannery’s most popular piece that she wrote. The themes in the story are life’s battle with what good really is‚ life’s battle with religion‚ and life’s battle with society and class. First‚ life’s battle with good versus evil‚ the grandmother has a blurred version of what “good” really is and what it is not. The grandmother first uses “good” with

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    well-known author of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”. In this story‚ O’Connor writes about a family‚ the grandmother‚ Bailey‚ the mother of the children‚ and the three children‚ from rural Georgia who are murdered by an escaped convict called the Misfit. O’Connor’s message is irrefutably symbolic of the grace she believes we are offered through Jesus. O’Connor’s upbringing as a Catholic woman in the south had a great deal of influence on all of her work. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”‚ author Flannery

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    “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor opens with a scene of a grandmother in the kitchen with her son‚ Bailey‚ and his family‚ which consists of a wife who wears slacks and a kerchief around her hair while she feeds a young baby as well as two children; a young boy and girl named John Wesley (which oddly enough is the name of the founder of the Methodist religion) and June Star. The family is preparing to go to Florida on vacation but the grandmother is insistent that they go to Tennessee

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    the story is outside of Toombsboro‚ on a dirt road‚ the time is afternoon since the sky is clear with no clouds or any sun. "She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest." Flannery O’Connor’s "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is the story of a family’s vacation tragically ended by a murderer and his gang. After a meddlesome Mother/Mother-In-Law/Grandmother tries to insist that the family go to Tennessee

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    Flannery O’Connor’s style in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" helps create the story of a dysfunctional family’s summer vacation gone wrong. O’Connor’s use of dark humor‚ foreshadowing‚ and imagery helps communicate the story’s main theme: people in today’s society treat others with little or no respect‚ unlike past times. The story takes place in Georgia‚ where a family of six is about to leave on a vacation to Florida. The grandmother wants to go to Tennessee and tries to convince her son Bailey

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    steps of Christ. Most Christians are viewed only as‚ “Sunday Christians” who follow their own beliefs. Faith is a major attribute to being Christian‚ and most never realize that it is missing until it is too late. In Flannery O’ Connor’s‚ “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” O’Connor utilizes religious aspects to tie in her views on Christian beliefs and her confusion about her religion in her life through the Grandmother’s eyes. To start‚ in order for the reader to understand the writing and views of Flannery

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    A Good Man is Hard to Find- my initial reaction to this story was intrigue. I was hooked from the first paragraph because I could foresee some sort of disaster or problem arising. I thought the story did not fail to entertain me. I really enjoyed reading the story and am interested in reading more stories from this author. Good Country People- I found Good Country People a little harder to follow and I kept losing interest in this story. I liked the previous story A Good Man is Hard to Find because

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    The setting in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find‚” is in Atlanta‚ Georgia and the other half in a car heading to Florida. In the story‚ we are able to hear the thoughts of the grandmother. In the car she is telling her son Bailey‚ the plantation they are looking for “It’s not much farther‚” and as she realizes the plantation was in Tennessee‚ “The thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up.” This lets us know what the grandmother was thinking

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