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    Lance’s Response In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’ Connor tells a bunch of events that happened in order. For an example‚ the story basically focuses on a series of events that is about a family’s road trip towards the south. The mother’s attitude is a bit rude and selfish. She does not want to go to Florida‚ so she tries to get her son to cancel the trip. She claims that Florida is a crime zone by saying “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal loose in it

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    Hindsight Bias In Flannery O’ Connors’s A Good Man is Hard to Find we are shocked by the unexpected violent end of the story. However when the story is read a second time we see that O’Conner used foreshadowing‚ and symbolism to give us many signs as to what was coming. Foreshadowing is strong throughout the beginning of the story. The first time it arises is in the first paragraph when the grandmother is reading about the crazed killer by the name of the Misfit who is on the run and headed

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    inside people’s´ personalities truly are in the south. The themes are race‚ unrequited love‚ good vs. evil‚ being an outsider‚ and violence. We have read the stories ¨A Good Man is Hard to Find¨‚ ¨The Possibility of Evil¨‚ and ¨A rose for Emily¨. The traits are shown through the stories by showing how they really think of the people around them and what they show to them. In the story ¨A Good Man is Hard” it’s about a family who is on a trip but runs into a misfit. The traits in this story were an

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    Flannery O’Connor´s book A Good Man Is Hard To Find‚ is composed of several short stories‚ one of which takes the tittle of the book. In this story the author‚ with the characters‚ the Grandmother‚ the protagonist‚ and the Misfit‚ the antagonist‚ exposes some ideas‚ by their behavior‚ also some symbols and some biblical ideas. In the story the author deal with the idea of “good” in different ways trying to show that only‚ because of being a “good man” doesn’t mean to be “moral” person

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    Flannery O Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is a tale of manipulation‚ rebirth‚ and grace. The story opens with an unnamed grandmother pleading her son to take the family on a vacation to Tennessee‚ instead of the already agreed upon‚ Florida. The grandmother attempts to manipulate the son‚ as if she were concerned for the safety of the family‚ by telling him news of a just escaped murderer from jail in Florida‚ however the family continues upon the trip Florida‚ with the grandmother attempting

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    along with it. In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s short stories "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister’s Black Veil"‚ both the main characters Mr. Hooper and Goodman Brown carry guilt because of a sin that they have committed. In "The Minister’s Black Veil"‚ the main character Mr. Hooper‚ who at first was a well liked minister throughout his town. Mr. Hooper had many good friends and followers and an assumed soon to be wife. At church he gave very good and meaningful sermons and was just a well respected person

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    The author begins “Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ with introduction of the family that are debating where to go on vacation Tennessee or Florida. The main character is Grandmother‚ dishonest person that pretend to be a proper lady‚ her emotionally unstable son Bailey‚ his wife and their three children.Despite grandmother’s comments about serial killer that escape from federal prison‚ Bailey insisted on family go to Florida‚ making this the grates mistake that would cost him and his family their lives

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    July 4‚ 2014 English Comp. II Compare/Contrast Essay There have been many sins listed in the Book of the Lord. Many people read stories without even analyzing the story for any hidden meaning‚ facts‚ or religious hints. Out of the many sins that are mentioned‚ one of the most common in the two stories that will be discussed is Wrath. You wouldn’t believe the things you can find in a story when you start breaking it down into little parts. Wrath is

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    Roethke and in the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’ Connor they both share some similarities. Both the story and the poem illustrate topics such as family‚ innocence and selfishness. First‚ the stories are about family in “My Papas Waltz” the poem is from the kids point of view where he wants the father the male role to be more attentive and then it switches to the mother were she is shown to be depressed and In “A Good Man is Hard to find” it’s about a family traveling

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