who is on the run heading for Florida. Unfortunately, she is ignored by every member of the family except for the little girl, June Star, who can read the grandmother like an open book. The fact that she admonishes Bailey, her son, of this Misfit and "what it [the Journal] says he did to these people" foreshadows the evil actions that will happen to them (O'Connor 352). Additionally, the morning of the trip the grandmother is the first one in the car ready to travel as June Star predicted she would be, "She wouldn't stay at home for a million bucks. She has to go everywhere we go" (O'Connor 118). This can be read as a direct foreshadowing of the grandmother's death. As one reads the story, one wonders why every time Bobby Lee and Hiram take someone into the forest, they never come back. Eventually, the whole family is taken to die. June Star's comment that the grandmother goes everywhere the family goes can be read as an indication that she will meet the same end that they did. Furthermore, although the grandmother did not want to go to Florida, she ironically dresses in her "Sunday best". It is ironic because when people die, they are often buried in their "Sunday best". She was dressed very nicely with "a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress...Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace." (O'Connor 353). All of the events that have taken place so far are foreshadowing evil directly on the family.
             As the trip progresses, the children reveal themselves as funny, spoiled brats. O'Connor's desire to illustrate the lost respect for the family and elders among the young is quite apparent in her illustrations of the children. One evidently notices another foreshadowing image when the family "passed by a cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island" (O'...