Summary Of A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Mary O Connor

In the story, a Good Man is hard to find written by Mary O’Connor, I think what it meant to be a “good” man and a “good” woman is that finding really good people is a difficult task. The Bible also tells us “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” (Bible Gateway, n.d.). Although all may try to do well in the world, we all have done something that we are not proud of. In this short story, there are many literary craft elements, but the ones that stood out the most to me are was the characters. While there were not many times where you could tell much about the parents in the story, we found out a lot of the grandmother, which appeared to be conceited and self-centered, while the two
When June Star questioned why the little black child did not have on bottoms, the grandmother says, “he probably did not have any, little niggers in the country don't have the things we do" (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). The grandmother also suggested that if she had married a man by the name of Mr. Teagarden, she would have been well off, because if purchased stock in Coca-Cola when it first came out. Due to the way the kids were brought up, June Star especially had a very smart mouth and was materialistic as well. When they stopped to get barbecue sandwiches at the Tower, while eating they listened to music, Red Sammy’s wife said that the little girl was cute and ask if she would be her little girl, June Star says no, and displays her lack of manners by insulting Red Sammy's wife with the comment, "I wouldn't live in a broken-down place like this for a million bucks" (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). Then there was the Misfit, the dangerous man that escaped from the federal pen and was described as a dangerous man that was decent at first, but somehow started doing bad