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A Good Man Is Hard To Find Research Paper

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Comment Powered by Belmonte 1 Janai Belmonte Professor Brian C. Essay#2 March 25, 2016 Essay#2 In the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the family encounters an escaped criminal named Misfit. One of the family members unnamed Grandmother who had an experienced with Misfit. In the short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the way they treated the very old man with wings. One of character name Elisenda who had an experienced with very old man of wings to let him go. The grandmother from “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and Elisenda from “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children are very similar in many different ways. The Grandmother and Elisenda are both very judgmental. The …show more content…

She screamed out that you have good intention to not to kill a lady. She communicate with him that I know you come from good people. She continue to pray and tells him that not to do it because I can give you money if that what you are concerned. According to Flannery O’Connor, “I know you wouldn’t shoot a lady” (432)! That shows that she didn’t want to be killed by misfit so she tries to convince him not to but his plan was to kill. Elisenda, from “A Very old man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” is very manipulative person. In the story she did some devious things to angel by not saving the very old man from tolerated of everyone and her too. She was selfish of buy things for herself. According to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Pelayo also set up a rabbit warren close to town and gave up his job as bailiff for good, and Elisenda bought some satin pumps with high heels and many dresses of iridescent silk, the kind worn on Sunday by the most desirable women in those times” (360). Marquez means that Pelayo who quit his job but to plan set up a rabbit warren close by to his town, and Elisenda just spent money on things she needed, than

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