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A Good Man Is Hard To Find Summary

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Intro: In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the author Flannery O’Connor portrays a catholic family headed on a trip while accounting a man who will kill them in vain.
The man is called the Misfit, he has been branded with that name after he supposedly killed his own father. During the plot of the story, He remains in a conflicted state about murdering a old woman in cold blood. With doubt comes humanity.
Body:
“He looked at her fixed in the eyes and then pulled the trigger”. The Misfit. He snapped, she pushed him too hard.
Image snake, surprise. It started with a crime against him into a crime against humanity. Society branded him as a murderer. His flesh is now the flesh of a monster, which gave them probable cause to treat him as he was such. His own name, his life is no longer his own, it is possessed by a demon that everybody can see. He is no longer that bartender in a small town in Huston. He is a murderer that is all. He did what was expected of him to do, kill not have mercy to those who sealed his life, to be a life of crime. What makes a good man? Is it defined by what he does or who he is meaning the color of his skin or the family he came from?
She got to him but for the wrong reasons. She appealed …show more content…

He can’t control how others perceive him, he’s been falsely accused and damned for life. His heart was buried underneath his anger and aggression and he developed a sudden need for control in an unfair world. Holding a gun, having someone’s life in your hands, gives you a lot of power and control. Though he kept her alive, the grandmother. He would talk to her, speak about great parents and so she saw an opening, a chance to save herself by convincing him that he didn’t have to kill her. Convincing him that he was a good man, a good white Christian. She gave him, what the other members of the family wouldn’t: the benefit of the

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