"A Good Man Is Hard To Find"

Close Ended Question:

• Why do the kids want to go to the old house,the grandmother was talking about, so bad?
• They wanted to go to the old house because they had never seen a secret panel before and this house had one. Also the kids claimed they never got to do stuff like this so they insisted they had too.

Open Ended Question:

• Why did the grandmother insist that the Misfit pray and why didn't he?
• The grandmother wanted the Misfit to pray and go to Jesus because she wanted him to realize that he was actually a good man and that he shouldn't hurt the innocent family. The Misfit didn't want to go to Jesus and pray because he knew that it wouldn't help him and he didn't believe he would ever be a good man again. The Misfit also says that Jesus made him the way he did and all he does is throw things off balance.

World Connection Question:

• Can the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" still relate to the way the society is now?
• The way the society has become still connects to this story. Murders happen way more often now and tend to be so much more thought out and extreme but also murders can be like the family in this story where they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. People aren't always good, there are crazy people that will kill anyone for no reason just to release anger or just because they want to, like the Misfit in "A Good Man Is Hard To Find". There are people all over the world today that are exactly like the Misfit was in the short story.

Universal Theme Question:

• Do the things people believe affect the decisions they make, such as their religion?
• Yes,The Misfit himself had such doubt in Jesus and that's what lead him to think there is no right or wrong. He didn't believe in Jesus and that Jesus could help him through his problems so he made the wrong choices and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Literary Analysis Question:

• Does the narrators view affect the over all point of view of the story?
• Yes, the story is mostly told about the grandmother and we mostly see things from her point of view and we get to see her feelings and thoughts about the whole situation in the story.