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O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

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"'You're The Misfit!" she said. "I recognized you at once'" (A Good Man Is Hard To Find O'Connor pg 14).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/02/the_advantage_of_ignorance.html

Maddie Gillespie said:

"I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more." ~ Red Sammy (A Good Man is Hard to Find, O'Connor)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/02/whats_bad_is_good_and_whats_go.html

Andrea Nestler said:

"I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more." **Red Sammy** (A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndreaNestler/2008/02/all_i_can_say_isa_good_man_is.html

“It isn’t a soul in this green world of God’s that you can trust.” (O’Connor 8)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/02/trusting_soul.html

"No pleasure but meanness" ("A Good Man is Hard to Find" P. 21).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EthanShepley/2008/02/misfit.html

Juliana Cox said:

"The childern's mother..." (O'Connor 2). "Bailey and the children's mother..." (O'Connor 3). "...looking for the childern's mother" (O'Connor 12).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/02/the_anonymous_mother.html

Greta Carroll said:

“’Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!’ She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snack had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest” (O’Connor 21-2).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/02/does_one_lose_more_than_innoce.html

Kaitlin Monier said:

"Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady" (O'Connor 3).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/02/misleading_wakeup_calls.html

Jeanine O'Neal said:

“ ‘She would have been a good woman,’ The Misfit said, ‘if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.’” (page 29).


See more on this quote, find the meaning behind the quote: "You're one of my own children!" and learn how The Misfit resembles a Christ-figure at my blog:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2008/02/jesus_the_misfit.html

marsha banton said:

The grandmother didn't want to go to Flordia. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee. She was trying to get her son to take the family on vacation where she wanted to go. "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Flordiau read here what it says he did to these people> I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer my conscience if I did." She ends taking the family on a wild goose chase down a road to see a house that is actually in a different state. She doesn't want to tell her son that she made a mistake. In the end they are killed by the Misfit's gang We all make mistakes and should own up to them before something bad happens.

marsha banton said:

The grandmother didn't want to go to Flordia. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee. She was trying to get her son to take the family on vacation where she wanted to go. "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Flordiau read here what it says he did to these people> I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer my conscience if I did." She ends taking the family on a wild goose chase down a road to see a house that is actually in a different state. She doesn't want to tell her son that she made a mistake. In the end they are killed by the Misfit's gang We all make mistakes and should own up to them before something bad happens. O'Connor P-1

"She would've been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." (O'Connor 22)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/02/i_killed_your_mother_today_and.html

Ally Hall said:

"'Children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else'" (O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find 12).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/02/parents_discipline_and_the_mis.html

"They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island" A Good Man is Hard to Find 6).

"'I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did'" (O'Connor 1).

Because you're dying to find out more, click here:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/02/im_foreshadowinga_blog_entry.html

Stephanie Wytovich said:

"Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children! She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest. Then he put his gundown and on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them (O'Connor 22)"

To read my feelings on the quote, continue to my blog:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/02/the_misfit_finds_a_home_in_vio.html

Erica Gearhart said:

"'You can’t win,' and he [Red Sammy, a diner owner] wiped his sweating red face off with gray handkerchief. 'Two fellers come in here last week,' Red Sammy said, 'driving a Chrysler. It was a old beat-up car but it was a good one and these boys looked all right to me. Said they worked at the mill and you know I let them fellers charge the gas they bought? Now why did I do that?' 'Because you're a good man!' the grandmother said at once. 'Yes'm, I suppose so," Red Sam said as if he were struck with this answer" (7-8).

View my comments at the link below
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/02/foreshadowing_and_characteriza.html

"'She would of been a good woman,'the Misfit said, 'if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.'"

Deana Kubat said:

....Pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. "wouldn't that make a picture, now?" she asked and they all turned and looked at the little Negro out of the back window. he waved. "he didnt have my britches on," june star said. "he probabley didn't have any," the grandmother explained. "little niggers in the country don't have things like we do. if i could paint, i'd paint that picture," she said. (O'Connor 12)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KayleyDardano/2008/02/who_lives_the_longest.html

“No Pleasure but meanness,” The mist fit said, …”Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” said the grand mother. (O’Conner 22)

Katie Vann said:

"When the children finished all the comic books they had brought, they opened the lunch and ate it. The grandmother ate a peanut butter sandwich and an olive and would not let the chlildren throw the box and the paper napkins out the window. When there was nothing else to do they played a game by choosing a cloud and making the other two guess what shape of a cow and June Star guessed a cow and John Wesley said no, an automobile, and June Star said he didn't play fair, and they began to slap each other over the grandmother." (O'Conner 5)

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