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Throughout the book, Bob Starrett changes drastically. From a small boy eager to prove his worth in vicious battles with a gun in hand, to a boy tinted with the understanding that having courage and being a good man doesn’t necessarily mean building your reputation so others find fear in your presence. ‘’This was the Shane I had dreamed for him, cool and competent, facing the room full of men in the simple solitude of his own invincible completeness’’ (152). This certain passage displays Bob’s aspirations for both himself and Shane because in the beginning of the book, Bob felt as if he had to resort to violence to prove his worth. Feeling proud of his ability to injure others in instances such as the time when Bob felt important and ‘manly’ for having Licked Ollie Johnson in the ear (49). …show more content…
Bob’s personality changes throughout the story as many people teach Bob about what it really means to be a good man.
After shooting both Wilson and Fletcher and completely losing his inner peace, Shane finds Bob nearby and tell the young witness of his violent actions that people don’t just change their personality, but instead try to find ways to cover up who they really are and that a good man doesn’t run from his true personality. ‘’A man is what he is Bob, and there’s no breaking the mold. I’ve tried that and I’ve lost” (159). After seeing Shane ride up the trail to his homestead for the very first time, Bob had wanted to be just like him, ‘’ Already I was imagining myself in hat and belt and boots like those” (5). Shane tells him that Bob will grow up to be his own unique individual and warns him not to get distracted or ‘run away’ from the real man that he was always destined to
be. Another lesson Bob learns about being a good man is given again by Shane. When Bob was playing with his broken pistol behind the barn (62), Shane notices his actions and after teaching him the proper way to shoot, earnestly says ‘’ Listen Bob, a gun is just a tool…as good-and as bad- as the man who carries it” (63). This lesson teaches young Bob that a gun doesn’t kill people, but rather the person using the gun. Earlier in the story Bob believed that belongings and such defined who he was and whether or not he was a good man. When Bob first saw Shane’s gun tucked away in his bedroll (52), Bob wondered ‘’why should a man with a gun like that refuse to wear it and show it off” (53)? Shane teaches Bob that a good man should take pride in not his belongings but unique characteristics that make him special and realize that items and belongings are only as good as the man using them.
has not yet developed the trait of selflessness. Later on in the heroin’s journey, Crabbe and Mary find themselves at a hunt lodge. Crabbe does all that he i...
At the start of John Demos' book The Unredeemed Captive, a group of Native Americans attack the English town of Deerfield, kidnap a few of its people, and take them to Canada. On October 21, 1703, in response to the attacks, the "Reverend Mr." John Williams, the town's leader, writes to Joseph Dudley, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, for tax relief, funding to rebuild the fort, a prisoner exchange to free the captured residents, and soldiers to protect the town. Governor Dudley agrees to fulfill the reverend's requests, and stations 16 soldiers at the town's fort (Demos 1994, 11-13). In response to English counterattacks, Governor Pierre de Rigaud, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, begins to plan an February "expedition" of 48 French troops and 200 of France's "domiciled Indians." During the expedition, the soldiers destroy the town of Deerfield. Many of the residents that do not manage to flee or hide are killed or captured, including the reverend and his family. The troops then take the captured colonists to Canada, where they will be held hostage in an attempt to negotiate the release of many French prisoners under English control, including Vaudreuil's best "privateer," Pierre Maisonat, the infamous "Captain Baptiste" (Demos 1994, 15-19). In The Unredeemed Captive, Demos uses the incident at Deerfield as a lens to reveal the underlying political, cultural, and religious conflicts in colonist-Native American relations, and those between the European colonizing nations themselves.
...a of brightening up the days. The result of his actions all changed Brent and were steps in his journey to becoming a better, more mature, less insecure teenager.
Rather then getting help and support to deal with the depression and the pain from watching his daughter slowly kill herself he is stuck in a cycle of anger and defeatism. Anger can be insidious, and it motivates. Stephens is using anger as a way of passing psychic pain on to others I, making others also pay for his emotional deficits. Stephens is very aware of this but chooses to keep taking these cases. “ So I am no Lone Ranger riding into town in my white Mercedes-Benz to save the local sheepherders from the cattle barons in black hats. I am clear on that. Moreover, I do not burn myself out with these awful cases because it somehow makes me a better person. No, I admit it, I’m, on a personal vendetta; what the hell, it is obvious. And I don’t need a shrink to tell me what motivates me.”
The name of my book is Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan. This is a mystery thriller about five teens who plan to kidnap their English teacher to teach him a lesson. Their teacher is very hard on them and does not allow any room for slacking. But instead of just kidnapping him for a while, they decide to abandon him for a while by a deserted lake in the middle of nowhere. Two of the teens come back to find that he is dead. Now they must decide what to do with the body and how to explain his death.
In her well-known short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor skillfully describes the difficulty of finding a morally upright human being, whether it is a man or a woman. No one is perfect, everyone has inadequacies and shortcomings, and she presents this cleverly in her story. She is able to support this view of mankind through her characters. They are self-centered, egotistical human beings who can be judged by their words and actions. This is especially true of the protagonist (the grandmother) and the antagonist (the Misfit). The grandmother tries to portray herself as a virtuous woman, but in the end O’Connor shows that her actions are always self-serving and that morally, she is not that different from the Misfit.
"She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." In “A Good man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’ Connor state that the story is about redemption. Is it about redemption, or what I believe is just a senseless act of pure evil of mankind and not regarding begging of human life. The story reflects on the mystery of both Grandmother and The Misfit. Comparing both Grandmother and The Misfit act of selfishness, cold, dark desire, and anger.
This story takes place in the South somewhere around the 1940’s or 50’s; thereby, providing the reader with a plot rich in historical, cultural, and social aspects. Throughout the narrative, many other places are mentioned and the characters’ insights on them are explained, thus an emotional attachment to places like Tennessee and Georgia are evident. However, the importance relies on what each character’s emotions and reactions reveal about themselves and about the society at that time. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor uses symbolism and diction to contrast the good and evil nature of humans through a hypocritical, morally-driven old lady and a criminal that embraces his evil acts by placing the blame on society.
Usually when someone is murdered, people expect the murderer to feel culpable. This though, is not the case in war. When in war, a soldier is taught that the enemy deserves to die, for no other reason than that they are the nation’s enemy. When Tim O’Brien kills a man during the Vietnam War, he is shocked that the man is not the buff, wicked, and terrifying enemy he was expecting. This realization overwhelms him in guilt. O’Brien’s guilt has him so fixated on the life of his victim that his own presence in the story—as protagonist and narrator—fades to the black. Since he doesn’t use the first person to explain his guilt and confusion, he negotiates his feelings by operating in fantasy—by imagining an entire life for his victim, from his boyhood and his family to his feeling about the war and about the Americans. In The Man I Killed, Tim O’Brien explores the truth of The Vietnam War by vividly describing the dead body and the imagined life of the man he has killed to question the morality of killing in a war that seems to have no point to him.
In the short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” a family comprising of a grandmother, a father, three children, and a wife is headed on vacation has the misfortune of meeting a murderous band of serial killers. The Misfit and his band of serial killers are recently escapees of a federal prison. In the following paragraphs this paper looks into the issues of, what one would do in a situation such as that and the background of the the family and murderers as well.
In" A Good Man is Hard to Find" there are a variety of themes. The themes in this short story are: the grace of the grandmother and The Misfit, the vague definition of a “good man”, and the class of the grandmother. All of these themes are apparent to any reader, but it does not quite seem to match O’Connor’s depth style way of writing. The two characters, the Grandmother and the Misfit change from beginning to end. Even though they are both different as night and day, they both have principles and stand by their principles no matter what the circumstance.
Brent wanted to be looked at as plain and not menacing in his environment, so he adopted some irregular habits to fit in. He molded himself in the image of what others thought a safe black man should be. He conforms just like Mary B., but the major difference lies in Brent changing with his personal survival in mind. Mary B. was willing to do anything even if it cost her own life.
In the article “What makes us moral” by Jeffrey Kluger, he describes how morality is defined and how the people follow rules. Kluger discusses about scientific research that has been done to point out the important reasons of morality. Kluger explains that a person’s decision to do something good or bad is based on empathy, that humans tend not to do bad to those they sympathize with. Kluger also compares humans with animals and thinks that morality is the only thing that separates us from animals. I do agree with Kluger that people are born with a sense of right and wrong, but we should be taught how to use it. We learned to be nicer to those around us because we already know the type of person they are, and the morality we learned as children
Bob Sweeny, decides to give Danny a second chance, as he fears that Danny will end up like Derek, leads into the narratives ‘Recognition’.
I think that Flannery OConnors short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is written partially in order to convert people who have not yet fully accepted the Christian faith. OConner, herself being a strong believer in Christianity, probably thought that writing this story will help make people who arent really living by the Christian rules to seriously consider doing so. Flannery O'Connor was deeply concerned with the values and the direction of the youth at the time. She believed that Christ was no longer enough of a priority to the people of her generation. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is representative of Flannery O'Connor's concern for the priorities and values of the 1940s.