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Choose one story from the following short stories (sure you can read more than one, but for this unit having one under your belt will suffice).
Choose one from the following:
"Everything That Rises Must Converge"-Flannery O'Connor
"The Black Cat"-Poe
"Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?"-Oates
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"-O'Connor
DO THE FOLLOWING ON YOUR BLOG
Create Socratic Questions (one question for each type) covering the story you've chosen. Write your questions and the answers on a blog post. Be sure to answer each question you ask using complete sentences.
Choose one from the following:
"Everything That Rises Must Converge"-Flannery O'Connor
"The Black Cat"-Poe
"Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?"-Oates
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"-O'Connor
DO THE FOLLOWING ON YOUR BLOG
Create Socratic Questions (one question for each type) covering the story you've chosen. Write your questions and the answers on a blog post. Be sure to answer each question you ask using complete sentences.
Anytime you want me to check your progress comment below
and I'll look at what you've been writing.
Alright, so for "A Good Man is Hard to Find," could my closed ended question just be "Does the grandmother want to go to Florida?"
ReplyDeleteUm, yes, but I would say that the answer is more than just a 'yes'/'no'...wouldn't you???
ReplyDeleteNo. I wouldn't. But I only read the first sentence.
DeleteHeres my summary of the short story "A Good Man is Hard To Find"
Delete“A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” the title story of Flannery O’Connor’s first collection of short stories, is one of her most anthologized stories. As in most of her stories, the theme of identity in this story involves O’Connor’s Christian conviction about the role of sin, particularly the sin of pride, in distorting one’s true identity. The focal character in the story, who is identified only as the grandmother, convinces herself and, she thinks, her family, that she is a good judge of human nature.
In fact, she assumes that she is the best judge on any matter. The story opens with her son, Bailey, planning a family vacation to Florida. The grandmother opposes the idea, because an escaped killer known in the papers as the Misfit is supposedly headed toward Florida. She has very clear ideas of the flaws in character and the influence of class that go to making a criminal such as the Misfit. The grandmother’s false sense of self-importance, which she sees as separating herself from vulgarity, which is represented by the Misfit, is a motif typical of O’Connor’s fiction, and the plot hinges on the revelation of the falseness of the grandmother’s self-image.
From the beginning, O’Connor is careful to distance the narration from the grandmother’s delusions, with judicious use of irony. After describing the physical details of the grandmother’s extravagant traveling clothes, the narration offers a reflection that is apparently intended to represent the grandmother’s thoughts: “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.” Being “a lady” is an important part of the grandmother’s self-identity, yet it is defined externally, by clothing, and seems dependent on other people’s opinions. A further irony is that the grandmother is reflecting on her appearance and class in death, a time when neither matters much. The same irony reappears a few pages later when the grandmother tells her grandchildren, John Wesley and June Star, that she would have done well to marry a certain Mr. Teagarden because he was “a gentleman” and had died a very wealthy man. Again the insistence on wealth and status appears in the context of death, which renders them meaningless.
The grandmother’s own death at the end of the story provides the final irony. After lamenting with a restaurant owner on the decline of gentility—the scarcity of “good men” suggested by the title—the family encounters the only character in the story with the sort of manners and external refinement that the grandmother values, and he turns out to be the Misfit. She can tell by looking at him, the grandmother tells the Misfit, that he has no “common blood” in him, and the Misfit agrees. Then he and his henchmen shoot the entire family dead.
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ReplyDeletePersonally, I LOVED "A Good Man is Hard to Find"! (Is that dark of me? Oh well!) Anyways, I posted my socratic questions!
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