The family is halted by a group of murderers, including the Misfit, who are hunting them down for absolutely no reason. O’Connor characterizes these men as barbaric and awful, giving no explanation for their desire to kill the family. By doing this, O’Connor subtly hints her views on the male population and their
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seeing the bigger picture. The grandmother has her own ideology of what goodness means and how being a “lady” gives her an advantage to receive that special goodness. The statement by the misfit “Don’t see no sun but don’t see no cloud either” shows the clarity and reality of the situation as the family meets the misfits. O’Connor uses of diction is powerful that supports the reader visual the hints given through light and sky. The reference of no clouds reaches the conclusion of presenting no obstacles
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Although the family had already planned to take the trip to Florida, the Grandmother frequently tries to impose her ideas of rerouting to east Tennessee to visit some of her old friends. She used the reasoning of “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida.” O’Connor moves along to use a bit of imagery when she goes to describe the funeral-like attire that the Grandmother dressed in, “White-cotton gloves, a navy blue straw sailor hat with a
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brim of her hat smashed as she says “But nobody’s killed” in a frustrated tone shows her reluctance to give up that she was wrong. She will not give up this attempt at being a lady no matter what happens to her or grand children. As she confronts the Misfit her self assurance and idea that she is a lady slowly disintegrates away as she becomes more humble that she will most likely die. The symbolism of these disintegration is when her brim actually falls off of her hat and it realization that she is
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dead on the road will know she was a lady, and she is always telling stories of southern gentlemen courting her. Then, the Misfit, whom she "knows" is of quality, southern blood, shoots her and her family, despite her belief in southern hospitality. Grandma is a woman who believes in God, but it seems that her belief isn’t really strong up until her confrontation with the Misfit. From what I understand, most of her works follow a similar pattern. The main character(s) are in some kind
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Perseus is a misfit since he has no money and is a demi-god he has to prove himself worthy to the king “Only Perseus was so poor that he has nothing to give”(D'aulaires, 116) Percy Jackson fits in the archetype misfit as well since he realized he is a demi-god and is unlike everyone else at his school he struggles to read english since he understands Roman (Percy
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dead on the road will know she was a lady, and she is always telling stories of southern gentlemen courting her. Then, the Misfit, whom she "knows" is of quality, southern blood, shoots her and her family, despite her belief in southern hospitality. Grandma is a woman who believes in God, but it seems that her belief isn’t really strong up until her confrontation with the Misfit. From what I understand, most of her works follow a similar pattern. The main character(s) are in some kind
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the essay will pursue the relationships between the grandmother, the misfit, and the son, John Wesley and his Mother and their last minute, virtuous moments right before Gods jurisdiction is handed upon them. John Wesley realizes that his actions anytime before that moment were inexcusable towards his mother, but now it is too late as he is murdered in the woods and the grandmother’s having her salvation just before the Misfit eradicates her as well. Annotated Bibliography Yao, Tianyuan Ben
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the vacation of a grandmother, her only son Bailey and his wife, and their two bratty children, June Star and John Wesley. The Grandmother, who didn’t want to take a vacation to Florida because she had read about a crazed assassin by the name of the Misfit who has escaped from the Federal Penitentiary, and who was on the run and heading for Florida. She even sort of predicts her own death “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady”. In this
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religion. At the end of the story we see irony along with a sort of justice to the killing of the grandmother, who led her family down on a trip to their death because she was insistent of reliving and glorifying the former times. We also see the Misfit find out that there is no pleasure in his way of life, which makes him reflect on how different his life could have been. The first example of the Grandmother’s ability to compare and contrast the present time she is in and the ways of the past
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