A response essay for the short story “a good man is hard to find”

This short story is considered as one of the best literary work. The writer of this story is Flannery

O'Connor. In this story the writer presents her passive views about the outcome of life. This short

story presents writer's deep religious views and emphasize on the religion in one's life. The

writer presents the story character in a very effective way to especially extract a truth about life.

This short story mainly contains a number of themes. While the most of the popular themes of

the writer's stories are loss, death, and mortality.

In the story a good man hard to find the prominent theme is death. Death is the most effective

theme of this story that got a register in the mind of the readers of the story. In this story the

grandmother insist to change the tour from Florida to Tennessee because the vicious gang is

present in Florida. While the death related theme of the story compel the grandmother to carry

her cat with her. She hides her cat in the car. Most of the literary pieces of Flannery O’Connor

start with death or it may finish with death.

In this story the writer reveal the deep truth about Christianity and grace is an important issue of

Christian society. The family takes a detour from Florida to the Tennessee. The news of escape

of gang from jail provokes a sense of fear in the mind of grandmother. While the theme of death

in the story has been utilized by the writer to show grace and misplacement of grace in this story.

It brings the grandmother to recognize a misfit as one of her children. Through the specific word

of "Misfit" the theme of death in this story has been revealed. Towards the end, when Misfit kills

grandma, we again witness the death and its importance in the story. It additionally implies the

convenient thought of all or nothing of Christianity. Literary elements also used to express desire

atmosphere and express the feelings of characters. So it in concluded that through this short

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story, the writer has successfully conveyed various elements of literature and impact of religion

in life.