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  • Essay / Flannery O' Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find

    "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a short story written by Flannery O' Connor and was officially published in 1955. The author Flannery O' Connor has was raised in a Roman Catholic family, attended Catholic school for 16 years, and had a strong Catholic faith. Most of O'Connor's literary works indicated his Roman Catholic beliefs; “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is one of the stories that contains a religious message. The story mainly concerns two different characters; the grandmother and The Misfit, who met by chance in the middle of nowhere on the road. The Grandma is known as the "good", innocent, religious old lady and The Misfit is known as the "bad" escaped criminal who has no faith in God. The central point of this essay is "grace", in personal knowledge; God has the power to grant “grace” to every human being, whether good or bad, and has the ability to enable anyone; good or bad, go to heaven. In "A Good Man is Hard to Find", when Grandma reaches out to touch The Misfit and calls one of her children "a child of God" in hopes of changing his emotions and making him To stop killing her, this moment is called a “moment of They ended up rolling into the woods; through the dirt road and suddenly the grandmother remembers that the plantation exists in Tennessee. The grandmother moved her feet because of fear, the cat randomly got out of the basket and jumped up to Bailey's neck. Bailey lost control and the car overturned. The family was fine, but Bailey's wife broke her shoulder. The grandmother decides not to tell anyone that the plantation was in Tennessee and not Georgia because Bailey was extremely angry. After a moment of waiting, a car stops and three men get out. The grandmother starts screaming out loud because she understands that it is The Misfit and his two assistants; Bobby Lee and