O’Connor’s quotes/theories: “It is the extreme situation that best reveals who we are essentially” and “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it” as it relates to the writing, “A good Man is Hard to Find” in which the main character, Grandmother, who lives with her only son and his family and who is domineering at best, but believes that she is a good, graceful, well-reared, and a devout Christian. While on a family trip during which the Grandmother insists on driving down a dirt road to see an old plantation home she once visited, they have a terrible accident. The Misfit, an escaped convict, stumbles across the family after their accident and whom Grandmother recognizes after seeing news reports. The extreme situation is of course that the Grandmother realizes it is her selfishness that has caused her entire family to be killed and she is probably next. While The Misfit and his friends contemplate killing the entire family, Grandmother attempts to relate to him and his “class” stating, “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you? “I know you come from nice people.” (582) While The Misfit seems to have good manners by apologizing to the ladies for not wearing a shirt and calling them ma’am, this is not a time for manners, and it is obvious he has no remorse for his earlier mistakes as he tells Grandmother he cannot remember why he was sent to the penitentiary. He further states, “Jesus thown everything off balance.” “I call myself The Misfit because I can’t make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment.” (584) This is also the family’s experience of The Misfit’s violence. It is here that Grandmother realizes she is not the person she purports to be. It is through The Misfit that she achieves grace, and accepts that she is selfish and perhaps not a good person.…
All of these ideas clearly show, all these symbols shown a sense of maturing and growing up. So obviously by then end of the chapter and with all the symbols Bobby does eventually come to…
3) Identify specific comments by Alan that show he is either effectively listening to his…
* Grandfather tells about how he and his brother got separated and asks about how rich Joan’s father was. He says that he thought his brother would come back and help them financially. Joan gets quite defensive of her father.…
The reader is exposed to the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of the main character, Bobby Godspeed. Twelve year-old Bobby has been called a variety of names such as Fatso, Fluff, Lardo, and Blubber because of his physical appearance. Bobby doesn't tend to react when he gets called a name, but it is apparent to the reader that it hurts him.…
According to the text, Agnes is a thin 43 year-old married white female who was taken to the mental health center in her hometown in the eastern seaboard city by her 22 year-old daughter, who feared that her mother was mentally ill. She claimed that her mother wanted to accompany her everywhere she went and that placed her in an awkward position. Agnes has always been a tense person and has reported experiencing agoraphobic symptoms for about seven years with symptoms becoming even more intense over an extended period. Agnes also believed that she…
The purpose of the constant reflection was to bring back a thought of a time when she and Roberta were friends and had…
Eventually, Bobby and the girl, Alicia, form a bond and Bobby tells her that he is invisible.…
It isn’t explicitly stated, but one can assume that Agnes was the main character’s identity before she joined the convent. Sister Cecilia was an identity given to her once she committed her life to the church. In contrast, Agnes chooses her next adopted identity, Father Damien, as a means of survival. This need to survive is both physical, in seeking a way to find food and shelter once her home is destroyed and everything that holds meaning for her as gone, but also an emotional survival. At that point in her life, Agnes’s memory is spotty at best. She doesn’t remember quite where she’s been, or quite where she’s going. But she remembers the original Father Damien, and she remembers where he’s meant to be going. So, like Sister Cecilia, Agnes attempts to abandon her old identity, “… [trimming] off her hair and then she buried it with [Father Damien] as though, even this pitiable, he was the keeper of her old life (Erdrich 44).” So she temporarily quiets her identity as Agnes, an identity she no longer fully understands, in favor of an identity she knows, however basically. In fact, her original adoption of Father Damien’s identity is solely for emotional purposes. She’s washed up on shore, and has no way of knowing whether she’s going to live or die. She doesn’t know if she’ll have a next meal, or if she’d going to drown that night. Her only goal in…
2) In the body of the speech, how many points does Stuart describe for his audience about Ted…
Speak is written with the intent of drawing the reader in and initiating the gut feeling which we learned is created with the use of metafiction. Anderson writes the whole book in present tense and from Melinda’s point of view. The grammar she uses is casual and is written how a typical teenager would talk. The dialogue within Melinda’s head is sarcastic and vivid, starkly contrasting the introverted facade she erects to protect herself. This insight into her mind evokes sympathy for Melinda and a connection to a character that doesn’t really exist.…
This is the first time the father realizes that his son remotely understands what has happened to his mother and his sister. The father finally grasps that he is involved in the decision and that he now…
3. How is the racial issue – a main theme of this book – clearly introduces in Chapter 1?…
The title of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Is ironic because what is actually required in many of the relationships depicted is more communication. Discuss.…
1. “Why, oh why, did the memory of that dead child seek me out today in the very midst of the summer that sang?”…