Good Man Is Hard To Find Analysis

Analyzing the problem of the innocence and evil in the texts of the such authors as Akpan and O’Connor, we should, first; mention the ethnic origin of the both authors. This will enable us to understand (or try to understand) the combination of the both philosophical and ethic categories with both authors. Flannery O’Connor is an American of Irish origin and due to this he is either a catholic or a knower of the Catholic Tradition. Though, the catholic understanding of the innocence, evil and the punishment for the sins can be found out in his novel Good man is hard to find.
Uvem Akpan is a Nigerian writer originated from Annang ethnic group that suffered through the genocide in the middle of the 20th century. The Tradition of this

Akpan does his best to find out anything good in the gloomy world but this good (person or thing) is very fragile and doomed.
O’Connor depicts evil as revenge. Akpan says about evil as about unpleasant change of climate. Anyway, both authors are rather pessimistic and they do not leave any chance for their heroes to survive. Their heroes do not even try to improve this world, it is useless and the world has no mercy.
We start us analyze with the Flannery O’Connor and his novel Good man is hard to find. Flannery O’Connor tries to prove us that evil and suffering are inevitable things in human life. The main heroes of the novel – Mister Bailey, his children, his wife and his mother, who is called in the story as Grandmother are ordinary people that are placed by author out of reader’s sympathy. When author describes these people, he used rather humiliating adjectives to do it. Especially his critical attitude towards the Baileys is seen, when author depicts the wife of Mister Bailey “A young woman in slacks, whose face was as broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied around with a green head-kerchief that had two points on the top like rabbit’s ears”. As one can see the author uses the word innocent, bit in this description the adjective sounds rather sarcastic and has the same meaning as an adjective stupid. The face of the woman is compared to

Author just gives to us short notes and quotations of elder people to emphasize that the religiously motivated violence is unnatural and inevitable in the same time like evil. The problems start since the anti-Muslim riots, when parents of the Christian girl tried to reduce their communicating. Two girls live in front of each other in different buildings. Sometimes, they just look at each other without saying any words. Sometimes, Moslem girl makes certain friendly gestures to her Christian friend, mostly by hands waving and Christian girl understands everything, though the religious confrontation can be determined as evil and the friendship of the two girls can be treated as a certain symbol of the