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"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the stories Good Country People and A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor. This ...
4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...
some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...
that is not present in the Bible salesman. The Bible salesman is more of a manipulator and is very subversive in his actions, no...
In eight pages this paper examines political incorrectness as it is reflected in Flannery O'Connor's short stories 'Everything Tha...
In ten pages this paper examines how religion, particularly the grace of God, is thematically depicted in Flannery O' Connor's sho...
In seven pages this research paper features a comparison of the short stories 'Good Country People,' 'A Good Man is Hard to Find,'...
most interesting works in this regard. "Revelation" forces us to accept humanity with all of its glories and all of its faults. ...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
In five pages these stories are compared and contrasted in terms of their portrayals of good and evil and the failings of society....
a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldnt answer to my conscience if I did" (OConnor). II. HULGA & THE MISFIT: RELIGIOUS FAIT...
In three pages these issues are considered within the context of characters the Misfit and the grandmother. There are three bibli...
The grandmother thinks she has the answers and is saved, religiously or otherwise, but yet she perhaps seems to realize that this ...
of the Old South, which is where she bases her identity. She sees the antebellum era and everything about the Southern values in t...
connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
measure of arrogance. The Grandmother certainly has her own measure of arrogance but little real power. As the student constructs ...
and the girls eyes [stop] rolling. At this point Mrs. Turpin asks her, What have you got to say to me?" (Bernardo [3]). This of...
this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
in men. Her daughter had died in childhood and with her one son she had no articulate relations. On the night when she died she wa...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...
is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...
In seven pages this paper examines the short story in terms of how it expresses the author's attitudes about religion. Six source...
In five pages the ways in which allegory is used by the author in this short story are discussed. Two sources are cited in the bi...
OConnor utilizes the central theme of Christianity is as a subtle, symbolic plot to convert her readers, whom she had envisioned a...