A Good Man Is Hard To Find Respect

Where has all the Respect gone? Respect is a rare commodity in this day and age, children who have it as very young toddlers lose it by the time they are teens, and some children never have it at all. This is a sad reality that most people don’t even realize. What makes it ever much more upsetting is it’s the adults fault, we walk around treating each other like the plague. Helen Bonnick said it best in her article Frontlines, “we have lost the art of putting others before ourselves” (1); which used to be a very important show of what kind of person you were. In Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find the lack of respect in almost all of the characters is astounding, and this story was set in the 1950’s, just imagine how much worse it really is. I think a
It briefly goes through the stages and ages that children develop what right and wrong are, and three different parenting strategies. The article shows how children who see their parents, or whoever is teaching them, being hypocrites can really make a child see right and wrong less seriously than we would like them to. This article explains that children begin life ready to be empathetic to others, which I have gathered to be a big role in respect. Carolyn Zahn-Waxler of the National Institute of Mental Health states “They cry more in response to human cries than to other aversive sounds. Somehow, there’s a built-in capacity to respond to the needs of others.” This would make Helen Bonnick’s visits to primary schools where the pupils ask if she’d like a cup of tea, offer to show her to her appointments, hold doors, and even make polite conversation with her not surprising. At the primary schools the pupils are still young enough for this to be a natural reaction to seeing somebody walk in to their place of