Analysis Of O 'Connor's Journey In A Good Man Is Hard'

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1. “[For O’Connor’s characters], the path to salvation is never easy; the journey is marked by violence, suffering, often acute disaster. To arouse the recipients of grace, divinity often resorts to drastic modes of awakening. A kind of redemption through catastrophe,” according to Dorothy Walters. Trace how this is true in one of her stories. Show with specifics how the character moves along the path to salvation, showing the journey and how the character ultimately is redeemed. Although each character is very different in their own way, O 'Connors uses each character to show a sense of kindness, struggle, and moment of clarity. Sometimes these characters are bizarre and eccentric, but each in their own individual way. A Good Man is Hard …show more content…

"would you mind calling them children to sit down by you? Children make me nervous."(pg 362) something most people wouldn 't dare to mutter aloud. He found his salvation in what he believed "Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead and He shouldn 't have done it. He thrown everything off balance. If He did what he said, then it 's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if he didn 't then it 's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can - by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness" (pg 366)he felt his grace was to keep up what he saw as Jesus 's work. Which entailed killing people for them to abandon everything else. He was so true to his character he even became mad wishing he 'd been there to see if Jesus truly had raised the dead so he didn 't have to continue this work ""Listen lady," he said in a high voice "if I had been there I would of known and I wouldn 't be like I am now."" Even before he murdered the grandmother, he clearly appreciated that she saw him has a good man. Saying "She would of been a good woman, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." (pg 366) I felt this also implied people were only truly at their best before and kindest before they were …show more content…

Although they are blue collar workers, they play a vastly significant role. They are sometimes thought of differently but as Glib points out, Romero takes pride in not only his work but his things. Which is sometimes not how that specific social class is seen. Even though at times it 's hard, Romero tries to teach himself to appreciate all the things in life that he does have "Yet people he knew left - to Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Chicago - and came back for holidays with stories of higher wages and acquisition." (pg

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