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A Good Man Is Hard To Find Chapter 1 Analysis

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2. For this week’s reading, I chose “A Good Man is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O’Connor. For the short story, the author describes in details what the characters do and provide great detail on the places. I think that all the details so carefully provided for us are used to make us, readers, dive into the story and feel like we take the trip with the characters. Reading the final scene, I felt like I was there walking among the characters and seeing their faces. So great was the details from the narrator. The final scene shows us the dialog between the escaped prisoner and his victim, where we can see the “evil” character of the prisoner which is missing God in his heart. All he remembers in his life is his bad deeds, and without God, there is no place for mercy …show more content…

But I was sure that there should be a happy ending. Only with the main characters being murdered at the end of the story, I realized that there could not be another ending. If the prisoner would save even one life, that would break the main idea - the absence of a “Good man” in the faithless evil prisoner. While reading, I was thinking why the author did not use the first point for the story. The simple answer came at the end of the story, where all the main characters were murdered. But, besides the simple answer, there is another one, I think. The author contrasted the two characters where one has the faith in God and another one does not. If O’Connor would use the good character’s point, regardless the character’s death in the end, readers would have to see all the actions from one particular point of view instead of having a chance to observe the dialog between good and bad, trying to understand both sides. To summarize my post, I want to recommend this story to those who did not read it yet. Such a dialog between good and bad in us can take place in us, and the story reminds that and draws a picture of what one can become if turn

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