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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor is an American author whose writings were heavily influenced by her life and beliefs. O'Connor was a devout Catholic who expressed the tenets of her faith through many of her...
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Good Country People
Your thesis statement is your position and lets your readers know what you intend to prove in your essay. The following are some ideas of possible positions you could take on Flannery O'Connor's...
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Good Country People
Bookending her story "Good Country People" with Mrs. Freeman allows author Flannery O'Connor to reinforce the irony of the story, a key technique she uses to communicate her themes. At the...
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Good Country People
One of the ironies of "Good Country People" is how alike Hulga and Manley Pointer are. As Mrs. Freeman states, "Some people are more alike than others," and that applies to Mrs. Hopewell's daughter...
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Good Country People
In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," one of the main characters, Hulga, suffers from a handicap. She has only one leg and uses a prosthetic leg to get around. She puts much emphasis on her...
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Good Country People
In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," Manly Pointer claims to be a Bible salesman who is interested in Hulga. He flirts with her and the two of them go walking together the day after he...
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Good Country People
In Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the character Joy/Hulga goes through an identity crisis. One of the main clues to this is her name change. Her mother named her Joy,...
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Good Country People
In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," two main characters are in conflict during the first half of the story: Hulga and her mother, Mrs. Hopewell. Mrs. Hopewell and Hulga are complete...
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Good Country People
In Flannery O'Connor's story "Good Country People," Hulga has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is an atheist. She believes that her education gives her a better understanding of the world, including the...
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Good Country People
I do not think any of the characters in "Good Country People" are heroic. Mrs. Hopewell is delusional and relies on broad stereotypes to divide people into categories. She decides Manley is "good...
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Good Country People
As in many of Flannery O'Connor's stories, "Good Country People" has no real hero and no character is particularly admirable. Mrs. Freeman, who is the first person introduced in the story, has many...
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Good Country People
Manley Pointer is successful in his misadventures of "Good Country People" because he taps into the weaknesses of the people whom he exploits, pretending to commiserate with them on their beliefs....
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Good Country People
In Good Country People there are several characters who suffer from spiritual or physical weaknesses and they seem to have intellectual or spiritual challenges, too. Hulga is the prototypical...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's writing is full of meaning and symbolism that is "hidden in plain sight" as it is woven into a seamless narrative. One of O'Connor's favorite character types is the intellectual...
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Good Country People
Ruby Turpin and Joy/Hulga experience important revelations about other people and how they themselves are perceived by others. In both cases, it seems more like a rude awakening than anything else,...
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Good Country People
Two of the primary characters in Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People" are Joy Hopewell and Manley Pointer. Joy has renamed herself Hulga, the ugliest name she can think of, and...
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Good Country People
The last ten lines find Mrs. Hopewell with whom she thinks is her friend, Mrs. Freeman; they are pulling up wild onions that Mrs. Freeman finds "evil-smelling." As Mrs. Hopewell notices Manley...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's choice of the title "Good Country People" for her short story about religious small-town people in rural Georgia is considered entirely ironic. As the eNotes biography of...
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Revelation
Flannery O’Connor’s Roman Catholic beliefs color her stories which include violence and violent people alongside the faith and grace found by many of her characters. “Good Country People”...
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Revelation
In O'Connor's stories, the main characters usually do not perceive things accurately, but in the course of the narrative, truths are revealed to them that change their perceptions. These truths...
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Good Country People
While both Flannery O'Connor's stories have the theme of “redemption through catastrophe,” Hulga and Mary Grace differ in certain ways, although they share many similarities. Differences Mary...
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Good Country People
O'Connor's "Good Country People" and Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" explore the consequences of the foolishness of intellectual pretensions. For, both Goodman and Ulga set upon a venture...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's 1955 story, "Good Country People," can be considered slightly ahead of its time for the cynicism and irony implied by its title and by its portrayal of the characters Mrs...
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Good Country People
In "Good Country People," Flannery O'Connor satirizes a young woman with a philosophy Ph.D. as she is duped by a country Bible salesman. O'Connor also makes her the target of satire as this...
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Good Country People
The story "Good Country People" does not refer to eating wood. The title of Flannery O'Connor's story is intended as irony. The religious mother, Mrs. Hopewell, meets what seems like a nice young...
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Good Country People
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Good Country People
The title is ironic because the characters who feature in the story might be country people but they don't appear particularly good, in any sense. The four main characters, Mrs Hopewell, her...
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Good Country People
“Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor features two characters who hide behind their names. Joy Hopewell believes that no man will ever be interested in her because she has a prosthetic...
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Good Country People
No, because all the characters are seen to be odd in some way. For example Joy is seen to be very rude and awkward and endowed with a monstrous intellect at the expense of feeling, and given to...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People" examines human nature and blind acceptance (based upon one's similarities with another's ideology). Short stories are broken down into five...
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Good Country People
Hulga Hopewell of "Good Country People" is an unusual character in Flannery O'Connor's fictional world. Hulga Hopewell’s loss of her leg at the age of nine from a gunshot determined her bitter...
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Good Country People
In "Good Country People," Flannery O'Connor satirizes certain qualities in human nature such as pretension, and she admires "a sense of being" achieved through a redemptive experience. "Foolishness...
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Good Country People
Flannery O’Connor lived in and wrote about the south. Most of her stories have themes of religion, race, and class. In “Good Country People,” religion comes to the forefront. As the story...
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Good Country People
Flannery O’Connor’s story “Good Country People” embraces the theme of innocence versus evil. In this instance, the innocent does not defeat the bad character. The narration of the story is...
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Good Country People
Joy's mother suspects that the name Hulga is selected because it is the ugliest name that Joy could find. According to Joy/Hulga this is exactly the case. Joy/Hulga is a somewhat bitter young...
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Good Country People
Mrs. Hopewell uses this term to describe people who are uncomplicated and uneducated. "Good country people" are characterized also by possessing what Mrs. Hopewell considers good values. This...
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Good Country People
This is a great question. The answer turns out to be complicated. Joy/Hulga does not undergo a change with clear demonstration of the ways she has changed. However, she does have a transformative...
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Good Country People
Set in what Flannery O'Connor called the "Christ-haunted South" her stories find religion as part of several dimensions of the narrative. In "Good Country People" the characters resonate with...
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Good Country People
“Good Country People” has a motley crew of characters and points of view. Flannery O’Connor’s central theme focuses around these characters that react to the topic of God in different ways....
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Good Country People
The main thrust of O'Connor's "Good Country People" deals with the feeling of intellectual superiority. Joy/Hulga feels she is the only one who truly understands the human condition. Her vast...
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Good Country People
Flannery O’Connor’s story titled “Good Country People” is full of dichotomies or oppositions. Among such opposites (or apparent opposites) are the following: Mrs. Freeman is lower-class and...
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Good Country People
Flannery O’Connor was a formalist by training and inclination, which means that she cared about every single detail of her works, even details as small as a single word. Few words O’Connor...
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Good Country People
Joy “Hulga” Hopewell is one of the most ironic characters ever created by Flannery O’Connor, an author who loved irony of almost every kind. One of the most ironic aspects of Hulga (one of...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" is probably her most widely read work and plenty of fine articles have been written on this short story. You'll find that eNotes has several...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's novels and stories are peopled with unique and flawed characters who are the result of O’Connor's satiric worldly perspective. While they are sometimes humorous, these misfits...
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Good Country People
Social contrasts and conflicts of various kinds are depicted or implied in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People.” Such conflicts include the following: Conflicts or...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" focuses on the story of a girl named Joy-Hulga Hopewell, who thinks that she is intellectually superior to those around her. Eventually, though, she is...
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Good Country People
Aside from the pressures Joy/Hulga imposes on herself, in part the result of her missing leg and her own self-absorption, Joy/Hulga's education--and her society's attitude toward that...
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Good Country People
Joy/Hulga is a difficult character to analyze, in part because she has, as her name suggests, several facets to her personality that make even three adjectives incomplete descriptors. When we first...
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Good Country People
This topic might be a bit too advanced for 9th graders, but you can introduce it in such a way that the class might enjoy writing about it. I'm referring to the nihilism, the belief that life is...