Friday, March 6, 2009
A Good Man is Hard To Find
Taking special note of the moment directly before the grandmother's death, look closely at the last three or four paragraphs of "A Good Man is Hard to Find." What happens to the grandmother? Does she have an awakening or an epiphany? Use a quote from the text to support your analysis of the scene.
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I think the grandmother has an epiphany because she realizes that she does not remember where the house and she realizes that she has an idea of who the man MisFit was. While she was giving the directions of the house she says, "a horrible thought came to her. The thought was embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated..." Then when she realizes that she knows the MisFit when she says, "the garndmother had a peculiar feeling that the be-spectacled man was someone she knew. His face was as familiar to her as if she had known him all her life but she could not recall who he was." She obviously felt she knew him.
ReplyDeleteits hard to decide whether the grandma had an epiphany or an awakening because before death experience that the grandma was going through was really disturbing. he preaching and convincing the misfit that he is good blood might seem like an awakening but then again when your begging for dear life do you think or trying to convert someone to religion. but from the text i think the grandmother was going through an epiphany. the continuous screams and reference she make about jesus seems likes its a divine intervention that takes over her body right before she departs from this world. it could to leave an affect on the misfit to repent ir just so the grandmother didnt loose her faith. she also guessed and discovered so peculiarly who the misfit was so this has somewhat of a proof to say epiphany. in the story it says "maybe he didnt raise the dead" not knowing what she was saying and feeling so dizzy that she sank down in the ditch with her legs twisted under her feet.
ReplyDeleteNo the grandmother doesn't have an epiphany. We forget she was pleading for her life; she wasn't trying to convince the misfit he was a good man, she was trying to persuade him not to kill her. When she said "maybe he didnt raise the dead," she realized there was no hope for her and she was going to die
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ReplyDeleteI’m not really sure if the grandmother had a epiphany or not but I can say that she definitely didn’t want to die. And I agree with Kevin because she was trying to convince the misfit that he was a good person probably to save her own life. I’m really unsure. But I think that maybe the grandmother thought she could stay alive by saying “why you’re one of my babies”. I think maybe she was trying to get to him emotionally. But it didn’t really work because he still killed her.
I dont think that the grandmother had an epiphany, because she was only trying to live. she did everything that she can to convince the misfit to not to kill her, but nothing worked. It's very hard for someone to just give up and accepts death.
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