O'Conner
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND By Flannery O' Connor The Setting: The setting of the story "A Good Man is Hard To Find" in the beginning is in the dinning room, where everybody is sitting and reading the paper "He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table" in Atlanta and the month is June or July, because the children are at home and they are about to go on a vacation. Then the second important setting of the story is outside of Toombsboro, on a dirt road, the time is afternoon and the sky is clear with no clouds or any sun. Explanation: This story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O' Connor, is a very good example of a typical mediocre family, who is about to go on vacation to Florida. The writer explains the situations very well. Like the first seen when the Grandmother is talking to her only son "Bailey" trying to change his mind, not to go to Florida instead go to Tennessee. At this point the writer is trying to convey something to the readers, a foreshadowing of an event that is going to happen later on in the story. Along with this there is a second message for the readers, when she points out the misfits on the loose headed to Florida, she gives this reason not to go to there "I wouldn't take my children in any d
irection with a criminal like that aloose in it." At this point the writer introduces us to the characters, presumably the children and their mother, she doesn't give the mother's name, but she does comment about the children. "John Wesley, a stocky child with glasses" and "the little girl, June Star" The children start arguing with their grandmother on the topic of the misfits and try their best that she wouldn't go with them on the trip. She wouldn't stay at home for a million bucks, afraid she'd miss something. She has to go everywhere we go." The next day they all set out for their trip in their car, the writer in a way compares the children's mother and the Grandmother, for the way they are dressed. "The children's mother still had on slacks...but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat..." by this the writer wants us to get inside of the old lady and lets us know that "in case of accident..." here the writer gives us another clue for an upcoming event that's going to happen later in the story. During the trip John Wesley suggests that they go through Georgia a kind of a shortcut, so that they don't have to go through Tennessee. At this point the grandmother starts talking about her times when children were respectful to their elders and had more respect for them. Then suddenly points out at a little kid standing in a doorway. And expresses her feeling that "If I could paint, I'd paint that picture," The writer then tells us about the trip until the afternoon when the stop over at a restaurant "The Tower was a part stucco and part wood filling station and dance hall" where they get something to eat. The writer now introduces us to two new characters, Red Sammy, "A fat man named Red Sammy Butts..." and Red Sammy's wife "a tall burnt-brown woman with hair and eyes lighter than her skin". Here the grandmother chats with Red Sam, which he initiates and grandmother joins in, "These days you don't know who to trust, Ain't that the truth?" They start talking about people and end up on the news that the grandmother had read in the paper, about The Misfit, "Did you read about that criminal, The Misfit, that's escaped?" After the leave the dinner, when they're outside of Toombsboro, the grandmother starts talking about a beautiful house she had visited when she was a young lady. She talks about all the good things that the house has and to make her son "Bailey" go there she even tells a lie, "There was a secret panel in this house...not telling the truth..." By this the children ge
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Approximate Word count = 1689
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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