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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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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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 "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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"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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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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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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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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I thought "A Good Man is Hard to Find," a short story by Flannery O"conner, was a delight. ... In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," however, the Grandma makes choices that I, the reader, just didn't agree with or understand. This provides a good twist and also makes her character more believable. The final point of this story I"d like to commend is the good verses evil factor. The starring family is definutely not "good" but they are not evil enough to be murdered. ...

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"A Good Man is Hard to Find," The passage is important to the story because it show the interaction between the Misfit and the grandmother the reader with what would seem to be a forgone conclusion as well as an ending to the story. ... Finally, what I believe the author was trying to do with the choice of words that he uses like the name Misfit, and the way he speaks as an uneducated, and disrespectful man are done to portray the misfit in a negative way to add to the Misfit's criminal persona. ...

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"A Good Man is Hard to Find," The passage is important to the story because it show the interaction between the Misfit and the grandmother the reader with what would seem to be a forgone conclusion as well as an ending to the story. ... Finally, what I believe the author was trying to do with the choice of words that he uses like the name Misfit, and the way he speaks as an uneducated, and disrespectful man are done to portray the misfit in a negative way to add to the Misfit's criminal persona. ...

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"A Good Man is Hard to Find," a short story by Flannery O'Connor, is full with a religious theme, symbols, and characters. ... Therefore, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" depicts redemption through an appalling, frequently violent experience endured by characters that are spiritually grotesque. ... The grandmother is the best example of this because all of a sudden at the very end she finally realizes that she about to meet her maker and she tries to talk to The Misfit about how God will lead him in the right direction and that he was a good man even though he might of no...

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In her story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Flannery O'Connor implements her southern religious personality and uses foreshadowing and characterization to depict the mysterious ways that God works through human beings. ... In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" she uses the grandmother to show that everyone deserves to be saved by God, even if they led a sinful life. The beginning of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" appears to be insignificant. ... You've got good blood! ... "A Good Man is Hard to Find" shows how O'Connor viewed God's myster...

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In Flanney O"Conner's, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" a great deal of irony is used to express her views on how society and culture in the present day and how it has changed from that of the past. ... Red Sammy explained, "A good man is hard to find. ... The grandmother responds in the only way she knows how to by clinging to her beliefs about "good blood" and men behaving as a gentleman would. ...

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Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" starts as an innocent family who wants to go on a vacation to Florida. ... "You've got good blood! ... While she is face to face with "The Misfit," she consults with him that he does not have to kill her; that he is a good man. "Listen, I know you're a good man. ... "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a family who wanted to go on a simple, relaxing vacation. ...

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"A Good Man is hard to Find" focuses mainly on the personalities and traits of the two main characters, grandma and The Misfit. ... During the grandmother's plead to keep her life, she is very consistent in her argument and stays true to her reasoning that she thinks he is a good man and that he would never kill a lady, basically putting words in his mouth and thoughts in his head. ... During her argument, she talks about Jesus and his actions and even though the Misfit puts on a tough facade, we find that later in the book, his values change from originally stating that "t...

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The Grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" was a very interesting character whom I found myself liking very much. ... Her way to invoke conversation seemed to be telling the other people what "good people" they were. Red Sammy, the man who ran the combination restaurant/dancehall/filling station, was one such person. While there, the grandmother and Red Sammy held a conversation about how people aren't what they used to be and "A good man is hard to find." ... She commented that he must come from "good people" and that he's "not a bit common!" ...

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The Moral Structure in Flannery O"Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find Thesis: Flannery O"Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" expresses how people know what is morally and ethically wrong, but in their mind they are right; it just takes something more for them to see the difference. ... "The Moral Structure of O"Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."" ... "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." ... "The Function of Signature in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."" ... "O"Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."" ...

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Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," is a short story about a family on a vacation. ... In the end of "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the grandmother's thoughts towards people are totally different. ...

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"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor uses irony as a fictional component to make a lot of different character traits and character personalities; such as the character The Misfit or even the mother of Bailey. ... In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" that type of irony is present when The Misfit, makes Bailey's mother see herself for what everyone else sees her, a sinner. ... What is present in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is the battle between good and bad. ... During the entire story what is supposed to be good depends on who is mostly using the...

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Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find uses the grandmother to portray the dangers that selfishness, manipulation, and arrogance can bring to oneself and the surrounding people. ... At the beginning of the short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find, the first character introduced is the grandmother, thinking that she wanted to go to East Tennessee to visit old friends instead of Florida with her son, Bailey, his wife and children. ... She complained about how people were "certainly not nice like they used to be," trying to seem like a good-hearted person, when in reali...

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