Socratic Questions
Saturday, November 16, 2014"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by O'Connor
Q: Does Bailey have any brothers?
A: No Bailey is the grandmother's only son. " Bailey was the son she lived with, her only boy" (O'Connor 1).
Q:Why doesn't the Misfit pray like the grandmother tells him he should?
A: He doesn't pray because he says he doesn't need Jesus' help, that he is doing alright by himself. He doesn't think any good will come out of praying because Jesus throws everything off balance. " Jesus shown everything off balance. It was the same case with Him as with me except He hadn't committed any crime and they could prove I had committed one because they had papers on me" (O'Connor 12).
Q: Is the situation that the family gets in still a relevant concern for the families of today?
A: The situation is still relevant and will be forever, because there is always the possibility of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The entire situation is circumstantial, if the grandmother hadn't mentioned the house then they wouldn't have went in search for it, therefore they wouldn't have wrecked either. " The horrible thought she had before the accident was that the house that she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee.
Q: Do your beliefs, such as religion, effect your decision making?
A: Religion especially effects your decision making, the Misfit himself doesn't pray because he doesn't trust Jesus, and doesn't want anybodies help. If the Misfit had believed in Jesus maybe that could have helped him through his rough patches of life. "If He did what He said, then it's nothing nothing for you to do thow away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him" (O'Connor 13).
Q: How does the author capitalizing Jesus affect the theme of the story?
A: The capitalizing of Jesus, Him, or He, affects the theme in an immense way. With them capitalized you could argue that the theme is that you should pray and Jesus will help you in your difficult times and that He will help guide you away from dark paths. If they were lower cased then the theme could be argued to be that life is circumstantial, and no matter how good of a person you try to be things can still go wrong. "It ain't right I wasn't there because if I had of been there I would have known...if I had been there I would have known and wouldn't be like I am now" (O'Connor 13).
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