I think that Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good man is Hard to Find" is written partially in order to "convert" people who have not yet fully accepted the Chrisian faith. ... "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is representative of Flannery O'Connor's concern for the priorities and values of the 1940s. An example of this, in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" involves the grandmother's strong, southern heritage. She dresses with the intention that anyone who finds her dead on the road will know she was a lady, and she is always telling stories of southern gentlemen courti...

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A Good Man Is Hard To Find A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O"Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find is filled with foreshadowing which the first time reader will not grasp, but leaps out of the pages for repeated readers. When first read, A Good Man is Hard to Find, the reader does not value the importance of the grandmother charter and her warning. ... (Andra) The second time reader finds himself or herself yelling at the grandmother with each step the family takes towards their deaths. ...

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Don't Underestimate the Grandmother Is it that hard to find a "good" man in this world? According to Flannery O" Connor, finding a "good" man is hard to do. O"Connor writes the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," trying to portray the difficulty in finding a "good" man. No one is perfect, but knowing the difference between good and bad is usually not a hard decision. ... The grandmother realizes the Misfit is a "good" man and tries harder to plead for her life. ...

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The title of my short story was "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O"Connor. ... In 1955 "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and Other Stories received critical praise. ... "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" was a wonderful short story. ... She tried to talk to The Misfit about God and how being a good man can go a long ways. ... Sammy was the only one who mentioned, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." ...

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A Man With Good Values Is Hard To Find Throughout my life my parents, peers, and teachers have shaped my thoughts and beliefs. ... However when I compare myself to the characters in Flannery O"Connor's short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"; our views and lifestyles appear to be complete opposites. ... In conclusion, Flannery O"Connor's choice of title "A Good Man is Hard to Find" fit her story to a "T". The only thing missing from her title is that "A Good Man with Morals and Values is Hard to Find", because that is inevitably the truth. ... "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." ...

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In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find- we get a portrait of a 1950s postwar family who, in the midst of their own naivety, find themselves not only on the road from Atlanta, Georgia to Florida but on the road to the their own demise. ... - "A good man is hard to find."" ... She repeatedly tells The Misfit out of desperation or lack of anything else to say that she knows he is a good man and that if he would pray, everything would be fine. ... "A Good Man Is Hard to Find- means exactly what it says. It all came down to the grandmother putting all her trust in The Mis...

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A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O"Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" displays evil by foreshadowing events that happen in the story. ... In conclusion, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" has a lot of foreshadowing. ...

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In "A Good Man Is hard to Find," Flannery O'Conner really puts the reader in the middle class mode and throws a little religion at us. ... In reading " A Good Man is Hard to Find," we find ourselves in a setting of a lower middle class family with a dominant mother, annoying grandmother and a whinny mother-in-law. ... Consider the Christian idea of evil as opposed to a divine nation of the "good." ... She shows us how violent the recipients of this "good" can become and how they resist it and react to it , Religion that is. ... These are questions I thought O'Connor was asking in "A...

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Flannery O'Connor, author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" says, "There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored," (Fitzgerald 48). In her Short sstory "A Good Man is Hard to Find", O'Connor uses an array of literary techniques to portray an array of meanings. Howeve, it is through O'Connor's use of anagoge in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" where her religious message can be seen. ... This is incorporated in "A Good Man is ...

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The story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is about a family of six, who find their lives taking a turn for the worst during a vacation trip to Florida. ... She tries to manipulate her son and his wife by saying that it would be good for the children and that going to Florida will only put them in the harm of The Misfit. ... As a simple trip to visit Florida leads to the brutal death of an entire family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." ...

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" `A good man is hard to find." ... Her story, A Good Man Is Hard To Find illustrates how society was beginning to drastically change for the worse in the 1940's, and even a Christian character and a good heart couldn't always protect someone from the effects of those changes. ... Grandmother and the family find themselves in a serious predicament when they encounter "The Misfit," a murderer on the loose. ... Grandmother talks to the Misfit and encourages him to pray and become a good man. ... Grandmother was a good person, but she was not able to overcome the evil that possessed ...

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My Analysis of Grandma In the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find", the grandmother, also know as the old lady, has the type of personality I would not like my grandmother to have. ... During the ride she also tells stories that only she I really interested in hearing although John Wesley did happen to find one her stories very funny. ... In "A Good Man is Hard to Find", the grandmother unfortunately lives in the same house with her son. ...

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"A good Man is Hard to Find", by Flannery O" Conner was a suspenseful and kept me wanting to read to find out what happens in the end. It had good foreshadowing techniques and O"Connor did a good job of writing the story. ... The title gave me curiosity and I wanted to find out what the true meaning of the title meant. ...

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A Good Man Is Hard To Find "The Grandmother" In the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," O"Connor develops a storyline of a family of five, Baily and his wife, two bratty children, and Baily's mother, who have little respect for each other. ... Later in the story, In the face of death she finds herself desperately pleading for her life with the Misfit. As family members are being killed off one by one, she attempts to flatter the Misfit with comments that are very superficial, telling him he "I know you are a good man. ... This hypocritical gesture seems insultin...

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A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND The setting of the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," shows us how much tragedy can change a person. ... First, she is afraid to tell her son that she was mistaken because of her fear of his anger, and later, because they are under the mercy of the Misfit who finds them. The Grandmother's soul fills with fear when she finds out who the Misfit really is, and that their situation is worsening by the minute. ... the grand mother askes. she did niot relize trhat she had dug into the subject tht the misfit had the most problems. he stated things like," jesus done t...

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In her story A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor expertly uses the images of the sun and the woods to both foreshadow and witness the action as well as to symbolize the religious and moral dilemma confronting the story's main characters. ... In the story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, it is not the image of the sun, but rather the descriptions of sunlight, and later the altogether lack of a sun that underscores so much of the story's action. ... The suns of O'Connor's stories are almost always "accompanied by a complimentary setting of a fortress line of tre...

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O'Conners use of characterization in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is clearly important to the story. ... While at the diner Red Sammy talks about how a good man is hard to find. He then brings up the fact that a man in a run down van with two other people in it stopped for gas and he didn't think that he could trust them. ... This is a man who is a killer yet very polite in the way he talks. ... Most people will agree that Flannery O'Conners "A good man is hard to find" is a very interesting story, which uses characterization, forshadowing, and symbo...

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a story that deals directly with that age-old conflict. Flannery O"Connor uses the phrase "a good man is hard to find" to help define her view of the decline of goodness in the old southern culture. ... A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a third person narrative told from the point of view of the Grandmother. ... The Grandmother considers Red Sammy to be a good man simply because he allowed two millhands to charge gas. He later proceeds to comment that "A good man is hard to find, Everything is getting terrible. ...

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In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" all of the characters - most obviously the Grandmother - are concerned only with their own needs and wishes. ... Some readers of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" believed the grandmother was evil, even a witch. ... Finally, any work of art must speak for itself, and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' speaks much louder than O'Connor's claims. ... The fury that lights up her art keeps "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" from being reduced to a theological exercise. ... The character of the grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," for several reasons, cont...

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Flannery O"Connor provides a glimpse of Christ-like redemption in her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find". ... The Grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is in need of salvation. ... She often puts vanity before good sense. ... She tries to convince him that he is good, when in reality she tries to say he is as good as she is. ... It is so ironic how things turn out through Flannery O"Connor's work, redemption is both sought and found in the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find", Grandma, a very materialistic person, finds redemption through the Misfit when she realizes that wo...

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In Flannery O"Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the gruesome ending comes as quite a shock. ... He finds the family on the side of the road, just as the quote states, "The dragon is by the side of the road..." ... The grandmother embodies in her character many foreshadowing elements in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." ... She keeps repeating herself telling the Misfit that she knows he is a good man. ... Flannery O"Connor uses strong imagery and symbolism to foreshadow the tragic events that occur at the end of "A Good Man is Hard to Find." ...

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In Flannery O"Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the gruesome ending comes as quite a shock. ... He finds the family on the side of the road, just as the quote states, "The dragon is by the side of the road..." ... The grandmother embodies in her character many foreshadowing elements in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." ... She keeps repeating herself telling the Misfit that she knows he is a good man. ... Flannery O"Connor uses strong imagery and symbolism to foreshadow the tragic events that occur at the end of "A Good Man is Hard to Find." ...

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The foreshadowing effect in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" To foreshadow is to give a hint or a suggestion of a forthcoming event. Flannery O"Connor uses the foreshadowing effect adequately in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." ...

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find 'Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead,' The Misfit continued, 'and he shouldn't have done it. ... (O'Connor 1390-1391) With these lines in the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor expresses the difficult questions that a non-Christian might feel about the faith. ... Instead The Misfit decides to kill her when he finds himself in front of someone who is willing to accept him by touching him on the shoulder and calling him one of God's children. ... Stephen Bandy refuses to believ...

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