Essay On A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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Flannery O’Connor uses her deep and substantial words to unleash a deeper meaning within her writing “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.” Although there were many cultural conflicts amongst the story, racism is a very strongly expressed concern in the text due to the generational differences between the Grandmother and the family. My grandmother, Mimi, is the sweetest woman to walk the Earth. However, due to her generational differences, it caused her to feel as if an adopted black baby might be troubling to her family. Despite their personality differences, my grandmother and the grandmother in “ A Good Man Is Hard To Find” view racial differences in a much diverse way than the younger generations of their families. The grandmother in this story …show more content…

Although racism is not in her blood like the grandmother in O’Connor’s story, she did grow up within a society that was not necessarily for interracial marriage and interracial children. This is exactly why she was a bit in shock when she found out her son-in-law was going to be adopting a black baby girl. My grandmother has an amiable and very humane personality, however when she found out the news, she did not even know what to think. She began telling my grandfather that it would be such a risk for their son-n-law and his wife. Her son-in-law would forever gave to learn to deal with other people in society giving them dirty looks or confused gazes in public. My Mimi was so worried about the troubles that it could cause their family. All of this was done out of love. Even supposing my Mimi has no problem with blacks, she knew that because of what has happened in the past, people in this world can be cruel towards the family of those children and even the black children themselves. When my parents and I heard how she felt, we did not understand. We live in a world where one can be anyone they want and families are all unique in their own ways. My family felt that my uncle was doing a wonderful thing in this world, and when the black baby was born, so did my