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Analysis Of A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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Have you ever had a lying deceitful grandmother or bratty little brother or rude little sister in the car all the same time well in the story A Good Man is Hard to Find all three of these characters are in a car together with her mother father and baby brother plus a cat the grandma snuck into a car so after a bit of arguing the grandmother and getting the driver which is her son to turn around and go down this road and check out this old house that she remembers that was down this road and it turns out the actual houses in Tennessee not in Georgia where they were at the time so they turn around go down this road in the cat flies out of from under the suitcase and hits the driver and ends up having a big car crash and this is the main conflict of the story where they get new car …show more content…

Going into the part where nobody's on the path of a want to be on in their life the dad's not happy with his life he's not happy with his wife and his kids and how they act he doesn't talk very much because he doesn't feel like what he has to say is worth anything whereas the grandmother's a pretty vain woman and makes a big emphasis on that she's a lady and how that's why she should be killed instead of realizing that she's an old woman should be begging for the murderer

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He(the character) had internal conflict and external because he had found out something tragic that he will not forgive his father for what he had done in the past. The was some foreshadowing in the beginning so then they started to explain what have happen to that man hat have died. That would have gave the read some emotion to the story or thinking of the story of what they will be talking about or giving more info to answer the questions that the read had. “I wanted movement and not a clam course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the change to sacrifice myself for myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our life.

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The audience is likely to be convinced by the author's rhetorical approach because she develops credibility since she has experience on how it feels not being able to connect with a parent but at the end of the day being able to perceive through the challenge and eventually getting along with her father and no longer seeing him as an adversary but more as an accomplice with her father. 2) The tone of the author is appropriate to the audience because she is enthusiastic about trying to get along with her father even though they are almost exact opposites. In the story you never hear the main character say you know what I give up on my father we are never going to get along I hate my life. No but what the main character does do is that she gets out of her way to try to have a deeper relationship with her father.

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In this scene, the man recalls the final conversation he had with his wife, the boy’s mother. She expresses her plans to commit suicide, while the man begs her to stay alive. To begin, the woman’s discussion of dreams definitively establishes a mood of despair. In the

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His son marries, and the narrator and his wife age further, and the transition into old age is complete with the death of the narrator’s father-in-law. Between these events we can see large shifts in attitudes and ideas, as well as health and well-being. These factors provide clear character evolution within the

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Individuals can make their own interpretation of the themes of the short story, but without the grotesque violence and psychopathic nature of the characters, a theme would never surface. The purpose of the violent scenes and nature of the story is to provide a theme for the audience that a good man is not just hard to find but impossible to find because everyone is an imperfect human by human

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As she hides the cat away, it is almost as if she is hiding herself and hiding her “mistakes”. As the story moves on, they meet Red Sam. He complains to the grandmother about an incident with a customer, “”Two fellers come in here last week,” Red Sammy said, “driving a Chrysler. It was a old beat-up car

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Because at the beginning of the story the family did not pay much attention to what the Grandmother was saying, she tries to warn them about something bad might happen , where she ended up created a story to make them believe her, but they ignore her as if she was not important. Then you see how everything changes in the story once they got into the car crash, it seem as if they start to believe what the grandmother was saying about the danger they might faces, and all of the sudden the tone of the story completely changed, and became about

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to still keep established pace and tone, which is that calm, disassociated mood. At this point the father, the reader might think, is a construction of the husband’s mind, because the husband had focused on “the idea of never seeing him again. . . .” which struck him the most out of this chance meeting, rather than on the present moment of seeing him (Forn 345). However surreal this may be in real life, the narrator manages to keep the same weight through the pacing in the story to give this story a certain realism through the husband’s

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