How it all ends for one innocent family
A family decides to go on a road trip together. There's two sensible adults, two young but conscientious children, a baby only months old, and a grandmother with a strong will to see good in everyone. They set out on their way to Florida. As on every road trip, they saw special sights and stopped at every landmark they could. That was before the grandmother had began reminiscing about a plantation she had once visited when she was young. She talked about it until the children couldn't bear it anymore. They exploded and told their mother and father they wanted to go there. At first hesitating about stopping, the parents said no, however the kids whined and cried until they got their way. The grandmother told her son, the father, that the dirt road they had to turn on was a mile back from where they where now. In a sudden turn of events, everything horrible happens at once. The grandma realizes that the house she was thinking of was in Tennessee and not in Georgia which is where they were now. So the car flips over because the grandmother's cat startled the father. After the crash, everyone got out of the car with no one severely injured. From this point on, things only get worse. They manage to flag down a car which was their last mistake. In the newspapers lately, there has been a criminal, named the Misfit, on the loose heading toward Florida. It just so happens that he is the one coming to "help" this family in distress. He talks to them about his life and how he's a bad man but not the worst. As this happens, the Misfit tells his partners to take the parents and the children pair by pair out to the back of the woods to have done what he wants done. The last to remain on the side is the grandmother. She's heard five gunshots from out in the woods, but she is still trying to convince the Misfit that there is still good in him. She begins begging and praying to the Misfit to not do what he's done to the others. He simply says, "Lady, there never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip"(10). She then realizes that no matter what she does, the Misfit will have his way. Three more gunshots are heard concluding a good woman's life and continuing another man's legacy. What becomes of the misfit from that point on, no one knows, that's for us to imagine. "A Good Man is Hard to Find," eventually makes us readers realize the evils of society. Relating to "Fat Girl," everyone judges an innocent girl just for being a little bigger than normal. She wasn't actually different than anyone else, everyone was just brainwashed to think she was. The same happens in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" when the evils of society influence the Misfit to lead a terrible life and it influences the family to think that the world is all fun and games. All in all, the Misfit is forced to be the way he is by the evils and the cruelties of society.
Why is "A Good man is hard to find" a contemporary Story
In Contemporary literature, characters are usually flawed like the Misfit and Louise were. They had some type of personal problem. The Misfit of course was pushed into a psychological mindset that society is the demon in life, while Louise was forced by society to believe that she was very different from everyone when she was just an innocent child on the inside. Also contemporary fiction consists of being really "messed up." The Misfit I think is psychologically "messed up." He views things in his own demented way.
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