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Flannery O'Connor

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Between the two stories " A Good Man Is Hard To Find" and " Everything
That Rises Must Converge" written by Flannery O'Connor. The choice was
difficult but I decided that I liked "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" better then "
Everything That Rises Must Converge". A few reasons why I liked "A Good Man
Is Hard To Find" is the way the charcter of the grandmother is bossy and thinks that
she knows everything that there is to know. I could relate to the family and the way
that they ignored her suggestions and ideas because she came off in such an almost
snotty way. Also the way the her grandchildren talked back to her disrespectfully
and the parents did nothing about it.
My younger cousins treat my grandparents the same way and get away with
it. My brothers and older cousins and I would have not even dreamed about acting
that way to our grandparents. One of the reasons that I did not like the story
"Everything That Rises Must Converge" is because there was to much fighting
between the mother and son the mother was set in her ways and was not willing to
change her views and the son believed in his way and wanted her to believe in his
way. They should have just let each other believe in what they wanted to and let the
mother find out the hard way. I thought it was a good story but compared to "A
Good Man Is Hard To Find" I thought it was pretty boring. I thought it was pretty
ironic that the family never listened to the grandmother before and the first time that
they do it ends up coasting them their lives. The grandmother gets confused and
tells them to take a side road to an old house with history and as they are headed
down the road she gets startled because she members it is another state, with that
the cat jumps out of her lap and lands on her son who in return loses control of the
car.
The passing car that the family hopes is help ends up being their death sentence. If
the family had just...