A Good Man Is Hard To Find1

             The setting of the story "A Good Man is Hard To Find" in the beginning is in the dinning room, where everybody is sitting and reading the paper "He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table" in Atlanta and the month is June or July, because the children are at home and they are about to go on a vacation. Then the second important setting of the story is outside of Toombsboro, on a dirt road, the time is afternoon and the sky is clear with no clouds or any sun.
             This story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O' Connor, is a very good example of a typical mediocre family, who is about to go on vacation to Florida. The writer explains the situations very well. Like the first seen when the Grandmother is talking to her only son "Bailey" trying to change his mind, not to go to Florida instead go to Tennessee. At this point the writer is trying to convey something to the readers, a foreshadowing of an event that is going to happen later on in the story. Along with this there is a second message for the readers, when she points out the misfits on the loose headed to Florida, she gives this reason not to go to there "I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it." At this point the writer introduces us to the characters, presumably the children and their mother, she doesn't give the mother's name, but she does comment about the children. "John Wesley, a stocky child with glasses" and "the little girl, June Star" The children start arguing with their grandmother on the topic of the misfits and try their best that she wouldn't go with them on the trip. She wouldn't stay at home for a million bucks, afraid she'd miss something. She has to go everywhere we go."
             The next day they all set out for their trip in their car, the writer in a way compares the children's mother and the Grandm...

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