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encounters the Misfit while on their journey to the ‘’treasure.’’ The two main characters in the story are the Grandmother and the Misfit. While the Misfit is an escaped convict, obviously seen as the bad guy, the Grandmother seems more evil to me. The grandmother is a good person on the surface—at least the community thinks so—but she is also ‘mean.’ She forces her family to obey her; she sees them as an extension of herself; and she seizes ‘every chance to change’ reality. Because she convinces

it is the norms that are used as a guide to living life. The grandmother and the misfit in O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” follow the way of social values, thoughts, and way society sees one another closely in 1953. Both the grandmother and the misfit are different in many ways, but have one common value of society’s views are important to them. The way society views and judges people causes both the misfit and the grandmother to act differently, but subtly makes them more alike than either

The Misfit repeatedly refers to Jesus and his teachings, although he is far from a Godly man. He stated that only Jesus had ever brought back the dead and criticized him for doing so. For someone that does not go to church and has devoted his life to making

reader it is hard to determine whether not to believe this man. However throughout the story, it is true that the misfit is honest with his feelings and the kind of person he is. His way of accepting the crimes he commits and how his actions strongly differ( separate) him from the grandmother. The grandmother lives her life in denial of what differs a good person to a bad one where the misfit knows this difference. The hearse like automobile is his car that approaches the wrecked car and family. The

the author writes this story with a strong focus on religion and faith. O’connor does not give the two main characters names, the grandmother and the misfit, in representation of the human race in which good and evil exist. The grandmother is one of the three main characters who are not given a name, along with the children’s mother and the misfit. At the same time, since the grandmother is only referred to as the grandmother, O’Connor uses this character to represent the everyday person. The

The conflict is that the family wants to go to Florida and a murderer just escaped from prison in Florida. This is a dangerous situation because the Misfit could find them, and decide to kill them. They decide to go anyways even though the mother doesn't want to. Another conflict was that the grandmother tricked the kids into wanting to go see her old house. She did this by saying that there was a secret hatch in the house that nobody has ever found. They probably never found the hatch because it

Flannery O’Connor that have a dark ending. The main characters in this story are the grandmother, Red Sammy, and the Misfit. They each play a very different role but are compared very similarly. This story is about a selfish grandmother who is going on vacation with her son and his family. They want to go to Florida but she changed their mind by saying that there is a killer named Misfit on the loose and he is on his way to Florida, so they head to east Tennessee. They stop at a truck stop and meet the

The response is based on my experience that was faced with overcoming the obstacle of my "misfit" situation, which began on September 8th, 2015 that continued onto April 11th, 2017. It will feature the overall story, evidence, and my obstacle of finding the best college for me. This paper has a strong sense regarding to the definition of “misfit” doing something out of ordinary to where I’m at as a college student. Now, onto my experience. I was sitting in Study Hall then I overheard a conversation

your surroundings. In the story “A Good Man is Hard To Find” by Flannery O Conner you get introduced to two characters The Grandma and The Misfit. The first character is the Grandma that the author introduces and starts to describe first of what kind of person she is and what she does for the family. The second character that the author introduces is the Misfit and what character he is and what he does.

The Misunderstood Misfit In the book “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”, Flannery O’Connor shows that due to being misunderstood the misfit choose resentment towards the world. The following is the reason I think he could be misunderstood the incriminating evidence against him, a lack of conscience, and if he believes in Jesus. The family wants to take a trip to somewhere exciting. There is a disagreement amongst the family to where to go. Bailey, (the father) the grandmother’s son wants to take the