Punctuation errors are a common way that writers sabotage their work. At best, punctuation errors make you look careless and unprofessional; at worst, you look unintelligent. Here are five common errors and the correct way to go about fixing them. 1) unnecessary commas One of the many uses for the comma is to separate two ...
Many praise Flannery O’ Connor’s work for her use of religious symbolism and often violent depictions of life. While these elements are definitely present in “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” I also took notice of the subtle foreshadowing O’Connor used with her words; specifically in regards to colors, names, phrases, and the ...
Flannery O’Connor, in dealing with her recurrent setting of the post-Civil War South, once said that “[w]hile the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is certainly the most Christ-haunted.” In analyzing the representation of Christianity in two of her short stories — “Good Country People” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” — it becomes ...
When first reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, one may find oneself wondering whether or not good will prevail over evil, whether or not the grandmother will live. But upon closer reading, we see Flannery O’Connor’s use of foreshadowing throughout the story, predicting the grandmother’s ultimate demise. The southern gothic tale of a ...