Analysis Of A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor

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While reading Flannery O’Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find” we read that a family of five are on a roadtrip to Florida where they go every year. We have The Grandmother who derailed her family from the actual road to see a house she thought was in those parts of town. When all of a sudden her helpers are the murders she is afraid of. The murder “The Misfit” kills off the rest of her family and leaves her to dwell in her sorrow that she will be next. The Grandmother tries to maneuver her way out of dying by sweet talking The Misfit into thinking she can love him as her own child and that he doesn’t have to kill anymore. When she tries to reach for him he moved back and shot her. The Grandmother didn’t want him to be violent anymore and thought …show more content…

Can somebody 's touch on an "evil" person bring out all the love they have missed? We see that the misfit recoils from the grandmother touch could this be the touch he has always missed in his life or being the charity of grace that he has never received either. Does he feel like receiving this touch of grace would mean that he is to fail afterward from being reborn from such grace? The misfit thinks that being alive and having a pleasure in anything is all an illusion in the acts of god. The misfit recoiled because he did feel the love coming from the grandmother and feeling remorse for what pain he has dealt with and had on his shoulders.
Violence
There come all kinds of violence in the book “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by there being shooting of The Grandmother and also her having verbal violence to her family and strangers she doesn’t even know. O’Connor wants to use “violence” for redemption but what if you don’t want to be redeemed then what? There is only going to be more violence coming your way unless you can get under that person’s skin and turn them around
Misfit Shoots The Grandmother. When you try and talk your way of getting killed do you always think you are going to survive. Talking to a killer will never get you far with your …show more content…

Now we go into his life a little bit more and he went to prison on the claims of being his dad killer. But could this be more his actual living father or more of a fact of symbolism with this part. The Misfit does not remember what he did to his father that made him end up in jail.
“My daddy died in nineteen ought nineteen of the epidemic flu and I never had a thing to do with it. He was buried in Mount Hopewell Baptist Churchyard.” ( pg 949)
Reading this part from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” I would think from The Misfit saying this would really be him feeling sorry that he killed his father. Nevertheless if you are coming at this quote from another point you could think he was losing his real father and also god at the same time. Which would make him feel guilty and become the killer he is today. So before losing his father and becoming a killer he could have been a perfect church boy like anybody would be.
Speak of Jesus
We all know how it is to go on church on sunday but what about those who don’t go and maybe don’t believe? In a part of their heart or soul they still keep jesus with them because they know he listens and that even though they might have changed as well they have a purpose. Being a believer or a non-believer doesn’t mean that their is secrets everyone wishes to overcome about where even jesus came from and how this all

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