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

Sometimes reading stories and poems might get difficult. Students often have the sense that when a professor gives out an assigned reading he or she just has to skim through the pages and act if they have read it completely. Yes, they got some detail from the story, but did the story or poem get them thinking? In an article written by Sujin Shin he states the following “freshmen will buy 69 percent of their books. However, they will only carry one to two books to their classes each day and will only complete about 60 percent of their readings, Second-years also only reported carrying only one to two books to class, but they completed 70 percent of their readings 10 percentage points more than freshman, Juniors bought 72 percent of their books and read, on average, 55 percent of their readings, data show that seniors carry …show more content…
Whatever the reader is trying to say maybe argued. A clear example is given in the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," by Flannery O 'Connor when at the end the grandma starts preaching to the Misfit. I take that scenario as if she was just doing that to save her life, so then other readers can view it as if she is really trying to help him out. Another example is when the grandma states "Why you 're one of my babies. You 're one of my own children! She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest.” In this quotation I can argue that the Misfit felt that by the grandma reaching out her hand then she was in some sort of was trying to symbolize as if she was Jesus .since the Misfit had anger towards Jesus that’s why he shot her. Other readers can argue that it is wrong and that’s what argumentative thinking is. It is thinking about the arguments characters had and thinking whether anything in the story can be