who wrote the short stories: "a good man is hard to find" "revelation" and "good country people" -
Answers flannery o connor
what are her short stories about? (her style of writing) - Answers violent events that is suppose to
change how the person feels (main aim>the bigot in the story)
she always wanted to put a shocker to help people understand
her biggest short story - Answers revelation
-a criminal is on the loose, the family goes on the road trip
-the grandmother flips the car causing a car accident, nobody has been killed yet
-the misfits show up and everyone is killed-- the mother accepts her fate and bailey was the first to die
-grandmother is the last to be killed and dies with a smile on her face
-the misfits notice her reaction and pounder about it - Answers a good man is hard to find plot
-lower middle class family - Answers a good man is hard to find (extra things to know)
-the grandmother
-the misfits
-june star (kids of the mother and bailey)
-john wesley (kids of the mother and bailey)
-bobby lee (killer/misfit)
-bailey
-the mother
-hiram (killer/misfit)
-red sam(bbq owner)
-red sam's wife
-the baby
-pitty sing (the cat) - Answers a good man is hard to find characters
, 3rd person - Answers a good man is hard to find POV
-society & class
-evil
-religion - Answers a good man is hard to find themes
georgia
1955 (1950s)
start of civil rights era and vietnam war - Answers a good man is hard to find setting
-mrs. freeman and mrs. hopewell try to teach hulga(joy) about the Bible and their faith but she is Atheist
-manley pointer comes into town selling Bibles
-hulga(joy) may have cancer and has a fake leg
-hulga(joy) plans to meet manley in the barn, he opens up his bible and cards with pornography,
whiskey, condom, and a woman's fake eye fall out. he is trying to have a sex with her and do sexual
things
-she is nervous and trying to leave the situation when he gets up and runs away stealing her fake leg..
saying he never believed in the Bible anyways
-he has a fetish that's why he had those certain belongings and stole her leg - Answers good country
people plot
-mrs. hopewell changed hulga's name to joy since it was prettier and then hulga changed it back to hulga
bc she thought it was ugly like her
-manley pointer is a sex phallic symbol to a penis - Answers good country people (extra things to know)
-manley pointer (sold Bibles)
-mrs. hopewell (hulga's mom)
-hulga (joy)
-mrs. freeman (worked with hopewell)
-glynese (dont rlly need to know but freeman's daughter) - Answers good country people characters
a southern farm in 1955
civil rights movement and vietnam war beginning