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    <title>A Good Man Is Hard to Find Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;Good Country People&quot; O'Conner is also commenting on...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;Good Country People&quot; O'Conner is also commenting on condescending attitude.  Had Hulga-Joy not felt she was so above all the ignorant country people, she never would've gotten herself in a situation where she is stuck in a hayloft without her artificial leg.  Acceptance and open-mindedness is a positive quality.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:18:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes, she usually drives home her point with the violence, which, again,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/group/discuss/good-man-hard-message-deliverance-3469#10</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Yes, she usually drives home her point with the violence, which, again, is something she uses to gain the readers' attention.  She uses extreme examples to bring her message across.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:33:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On my opionion she doesnt give us the message really clearly, on been...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/group/discuss/good-man-hard-message-deliverance-3469#9</link>
        <description><![CDATA[On my opionion she doesnt give us the message really clearly, on been looking over her work again and i think she trys to make us look towards religion and to gain faith. In addition she usually shows it with the groteste way, for example for the worst of society she really points out to all defects.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:16:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[O'Connor's message isn't necessarily about how we need to change because...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/group/discuss/good-man-hard-message-deliverance-3469#8</link>
        <description><![CDATA[O'Connor's message isn't necessarily about how we need to change because we're inherently bad; it is more about how people sometimes experience salvation and redemption (and epiphanies) at the most unexpected times, when the characters would never expect to do so.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:22:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[so from the stories i read all of her work her message is about...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/group/discuss/good-man-hard-message-deliverance-3469#7</link>
        <description><![CDATA[so from the stories i read all of her work her message is about redemption and salvation, in other words she shows us the bad among us and to change? for example in Good Country People, she just a hard person with the lack of faith, when the seller steals her wooden leg, he kind of saves her from the lack of faith. to be honest i read this stories but i never get the  &quot;message&quot; from the authors ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:25:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #5:  Yes, your summary is correct. If you'd like to read...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/group/discuss/good-man-hard-message-deliverance-3469#6</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #5:  Yes, your summary is correct. If you'd like to read another O'Connor story, I recommend &quot;Parker's Back,&quot; which is about a tattooed man. This story is also about a character's religious experience and revelation, but the characters---O.E. Parker and his wife Sarah Ruth---are truly memorable for their eccentricies. My students always enjoy reading and talking about this one.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:24:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Isnt &quot;Good Country People&quot; where she takes this so call bible...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/group/discuss/good-man-hard-message-deliverance-3469#5</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Isnt &quot;Good Country People&quot; where she takes this so call bible salesman to her loft nad he asks her to remove her prosthetic leg, open his suitcase and he had like glass eyes and those sort of things and steal her prosthetic leg? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:39:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would recommend reading &quot;Good Country People,&quot; too, in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/group/discuss/good-man-hard-message-deliverance-3469#4</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I would recommend reading &quot;Good Country People,&quot; too, in addition to &quot;Revelation&quot; and &quot;A Good Man is hard to find.  You'll find this theme of revelation and redemption and epiphany in this story, as well.  Good luck with your O'Connor project! :)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:44:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[i have to read revelation and another short story of hers, what would...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/group/discuss/good-man-hard-message-deliverance-3469#3</link>
        <description><![CDATA[i have to read revelation and another short story of hers, what would you recommend since you say she is one of your favorite authors? and does she deliver the same message through all of her stories? from what i have been reading she has a &quot;rough&quot; criticisim in her work... ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:38:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are a few things to take away from this truly amazing story...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are a few things to take away from this truly amazing story (Flannery O'Connor is one of my top five favorite authors).  One of her common themes in her work, including this story, was the theme of redemption and salvation.  In many of her stories, her characters have their epiphanies when they least expect it, including the grandmother in &quot;A Good Man is Hard to Find.&quot;  Not until it is her turn to die does she realize...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:10:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["A Good Man Is Hard to Find" message of deliverance]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/group/discuss/good-man-hard-message-deliverance-3469</link>
        <description><![CDATA[On my opionion she doesnt give us the message really clearly, on been looking over her work again and i think she trys to make us look towards religion and to gain faith. In addition she usually shows it with the groteste way, for example for the worst of society she really points out to all defects.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:19:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[she wants to live]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-does-grandma-story-tell-misfit-that-hes-good-23419</link>
        <description><![CDATA[she wants to live]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:10:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[O'Connor borrowed her title from a popular blues song written by Eddie...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-good-man-why-he-hard-find-11425</link>
        <description><![CDATA[O'Connor borrowed her title from a popular blues song written by Eddie Green and recorded by Bessie Smith in 1927.  &quot;A Good Man is Hard to Find,&quot; as its name suggests, is a song about a woman's love for a man who inevitably betrays her and treats her so &quot;mean&quot;  that she wishes he were dead. The title's irony is evident when the family stops at a barbecue for lunch.  Red Sammy, the restaurant owner, and the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:55:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In an attempt to save her life, the grandmother pays The Misfit the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In an attempt to save her life, the grandmother pays The Misfit the highest compliments she can think of. Since she is a woman who embodies old southern values and prejudices it makes sense that she would tell him that he is a &quot;good man&quot; and &quot;not a bit common.&quot;The grandmother, however, begins to change as she gets more desperate. She begins to call out to Jesus in earnest, though it sounds &quot;as if she might be...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 May 2008 05:19:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does the grandmother in the story tell The Misfit that he is a good...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-does-grandma-story-tell-misfit-that-hes-good-23419</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why does the grandmother in the story tell The Misfit that he is a good man? Is there any sense in which he is a good man?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-does-grandma-story-tell-misfit-that-hes-good-23419</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 5 May 2008 21:05:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Vivid images such as these are included to help the reader picture...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-function-images-for-example-mother-s-quot-23041</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Vivid images such as these are included to help the reader picture whatever it is the author is describing in great detail, to put the reader there in the moment with the character(s).  The more vivid and specific the diction, the better the reader can picture what the author is talking about.  Quite frequently, these images stay with the reader for life.  For example, one image in a similarly dark story is one William Faulkner uses in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 21:50:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the function of images in this title?  For example, the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-function-images-for-example-mother-s-quot-23041</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the function of images in this title?  For example, the mother's &quot;face was as broad and innocent as a cabbage.&quot; ]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-function-images-for-example-mother-s-quot-23041</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 14:10:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[yes i need a good 5 paragraph essay.]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-would-good-five-paragraph-essay-topic-this-17843</link>
        <description><![CDATA[yes i need a good 5 paragraph essay.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:23:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I love this story and I like the way readers do not symapthize with the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-moral-main-point-that-flannery-o-connor-19989</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I love this story and I like the way readers do not symapthize with the grandmother at all; after all, she is the cause of all the trouble--and death. The grandmother is a woman who is set in her southern ways, and these ways are a cultural metaphor for racism in the American South. The grandmother is a symbolic cause for the death of the South by ignorance. The Misfit is manipulated innocence; her does not understand his position. Damn, the...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/what-moral-main-point-that-flannery-o-connor-19989</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 5 Apr 2008 00:39:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't think there is an actual moral to this story (or lesson). The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't think there is an actual moral to this story (or lesson). The main point of the story, in many critics' opinions, is in the revelation of the theme (redemption and salvation) and how people can find salvation and redemption in the most unlikely of places and how those places aren't always good ones or ideal ones, either, as in this story.  Unfortunately, the grandmother's revelation comes to late to save her own life, although one...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:49:56 PST</pubDate>
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