Before you read the story, please review the questions below. The questions will guide you to help you understand, analyze, and interpret the short story.

1. What values or worldview does the grandmother represent in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"? How, specifically, do her own words and those of the narrator contribute to our understanding of her character? What stance does the story encourage us to take in regard to the grandmother?
2. How or why might the grandmother be one of the people O'Connor describes in "The Fiction Writer and His Country" as having "little—or at best a distorted—sense of spiritual purpose"?
3. The grandmother is associated with the past from the beginning of "A Good Man." What was the past like, according to the grandmother and Red Sammy? How was it different from, and better than, the present?
4. How does the encounter with the Misfit change the grandmother and/or our view of her? In what way might we see the encounter with the Misfit as, in O'Connor's own words, "returning" the grandmother "to reality and preparing [her] to accept [her] moment of grace" ("On Her Own Work")?How does O'Connor characterize the Misfit? What is the significance of the grandmother's recognizing or mistaking the Misfit for "one of [her] own children" right before she dies? What does the Misfit mean when he says the grandmother "would have been a good woman . . . if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life"?
5. During their brief encounter, both the Misfit and the grandmother talk about religion and morality. What does the story ultimately say about either or both of these issues? To what extent and how, specifically, might "A Good Man" embody O'Connor's belief, expressed in "The Fiction Writer and His Country," that "the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ"? 
6. From its title right through to the Misfit's comments about the dead grandmother, this story clearly explores the question of what it means to be a "good" man or woman, contrasting at least two different definitions of "good." What are those definitions? What, if any, definition, does the story ultimately embrace?
7. What values or worldview does the grandmother represent in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"? How, specifically, do her own words and those of the narrator contribute to our understanding of her character? What stance does the story encourage us to take in regard to the grandmother?

Then, in your initial discussion post, consider in depth at least two of the questions posed. You may also raise questions you have about the speech and include your own responses to it.

Note: If a question has more than one part (more than one question), you do not have to answer every one of them.

 

URL For story: https://youtu.be/sQT7y4L5aKU

 

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These responses will be graded and thus must be carefully considered and well crafted. Students will be evaluated on both the content of their responses and the grammar of the postings. Students must employ proper spelling, correct capitalization, and complete sentences. Each post should be 3 paragraph or more in length. Students will also be required to respond to other students in the class.

*Tip - compose your responses in a word processing program such as Word first; then save this file to your computer or USB flash drive. Finally, copy and paste the text into the message area of the discussion board. This way if there is an interruption in your internet connection, you will not lose any work.

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