Thursday, November 19, 2009
Blog #8- A Good Man is Hard to Find
The story is told by the grandmother who goes on a trip with the whole family. She wants to go to Tennessee to see plantations that she remembers from childhood. but the family wants to go Florida. the grandmother is a lady and always "acts" like a lady according to her, as well as dressing like one. On their vacations they encounter the Misfit. all the family members act in greed and with greediness during this trips where we find out about the characters. the family has the grandmother which is constantly talking and a selfish woman because she doesn't consider the rest of the family only herself. The mother doesn't discipline her children therefore causing more irritation for the family and disrespect. John Wesley and June Star are the kids who are both badly behaved children. they do no listen to the parents or respect the elders their grandmother. The Misfit himself is selfish for taking the away from the world although they could be consider bad but also good people...the central theme of greed is present in the story and throughout the characters actions.
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Don't know if greed is really the main concern. Think about worldviews, esp. the grandmother's (which is perhaps self-deluding, at least out of touch, psychotic probably going too far), how she tries to force the misfit to "fit" it, and her perhaps dying realization (the is left ambiguous)
ReplyDeleteI must say that this was a great story. I totally agree with the fact that the granmother thinks of only herself and the two oldest children are very misbehaved> only thing i dont agree with is that greed is the center of this story.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that greed is a theme in the story, but not the central theme. All the characters have some sort of greedy characteristic. The Misfit is selfish by killing the whole family, but I feel that he teaches the grandmother a lesson. When he is able to kill her, she is quiet and humble for the first time throughout the story.
ReplyDeleteMaybe rather then greed, selfishness would be a better word. The grandmother's selfish nature is persistent throughout the story - especially at the end where she is begging for her own life as her family is killed.
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