A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor was born in 1925 in Savannah, Georgia, the only child of a very southern oriented family. Her parents came from a very prominent family. Her grandfather was the mayor of Milledgeville, Georgia for many years. During the time that Flannery was growing up, black Americans were beginning to fight for their equality under the law, a fact that the white southerners were not yet used to. All of these facts helped shape her beliefs and attitude toward life. Racism is a part of history that some people want to hold on to and others want to forget. O’Connor uses the grandmother as the main character to symbolism how life was like in the years around slavery and how her life was when she was a little girl growing up. She also uses her grandmother to try to show how the older generation was unwilling to accept the new changes, and how they tried to influence the younger generations into believing their way was the right. There are several racist remarks and issues that take place in the story. The first is her reference to black children “Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!” she said and pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. “Wouldn’t that make a picture, now?” (1136). The term pickaninny
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Approximate Word count = 926
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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