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Good Man is Hard to Find (Book Review Sample)
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Topic: You must choose one of the short stories we’ve read thus far this semester and analyze the author’s choice of character names. Authors choose names for their characters carefully; think about why the author chose the names that he or she did. What might those names symbolize? What do the names reveal about the characters? How might the names support the story’s theme? If you feel that sticking to one story is too confining, you may choose two stories to write about and compare/contrast the two authors’ uses of character names.
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Good Man is hard to find
Name
Institution
Course
Tutor
Date
Character Name Analysis
Introduction
This story illustrates some of the themes and techniques which characterize the typical story of O’Connor. For her story’s subject matter, she learns to draw from the limited resources at hand as there is no much movement that she makes from her farm due to her illness. Such resources include her reading materials, those people around her, including an assortment of regional and local newspapers. These newspaper stories have a large influence on most fiction stories by O’Conner O'Connor, (Flannery, and Fredrick, 2). This paper analyses the naming of characters in a story that depicts destruction of a too normal altogether family by three convicts who escaped.
Grandmother
O’Conner names this character to fit as a pillar of the family and around whom Christianity could be seen. The name grandmother seems to be perfect in this case. As the story outlines, grandmother seems to refer to the ways of the bible in most of her deeds or sayings. Even though not everyman is a good man, she tries to find that good character in them to tag them as good man. On the other hand this is only meant to cool down someone and bring peace within the family (O'Connor, 8). Thus, grandmother comes out as a perfect choice of name.
The Misfit
He is depicted as a pathological killer who ends up murdering the entire family within this story. O’Conner apparently fabricated him from the newspaper accounts of certain two criminals that terrorized the area of Atlanta within the early 1950s. As the story rotates around Christianity, the Misfit does not live according to the ways of Christianity. So as to reject Christ’s involvement in his life he goes around committing murders (O'Connor, 13). Thus, with regard to a society of Christianity among other factors, this comes out as a perfect character name in such a case.
Red Sammy Butts
According to a certain critic, the naming of this character seems to have been based on a certain local old good boy. Each year this "good old boy" does well and returns to Milledgeville on his birthday’s occasion to attend a banquet prepared by local merchants in his honor. As the owner of the outlined Tower restaurant, grandmother finds him to be a good man, gullible to a fault, as well as trusting. Among other characters, he also seems to be concerned with material gain (Flannery, and Fredrick, 16). Thus, with the depth of self-interest depicted, he might not be that good man after all, hence the name Red Sammy Butts.
Conclusion
As to her most short...
Name
Institution
Course
Tutor
Date
Character Name Analysis
Introduction
This story illustrates some of the themes and techniques which characterize the typical story of O’Connor. For her story’s subject matter, she learns to draw from the limited resources at hand as there is no much movement that she makes from her farm due to her illness. Such resources include her reading materials, those people around her, including an assortment of regional and local newspapers. These newspaper stories have a large influence on most fiction stories by O’Conner O'Connor, (Flannery, and Fredrick, 2). This paper analyses the naming of characters in a story that depicts destruction of a too normal altogether family by three convicts who escaped.
Grandmother
O’Conner names this character to fit as a pillar of the family and around whom Christianity could be seen. The name grandmother seems to be perfect in this case. As the story outlines, grandmother seems to refer to the ways of the bible in most of her deeds or sayings. Even though not everyman is a good man, she tries to find that good character in them to tag them as good man. On the other hand this is only meant to cool down someone and bring peace within the family (O'Connor, 8). Thus, grandmother comes out as a perfect choice of name.
The Misfit
He is depicted as a pathological killer who ends up murdering the entire family within this story. O’Conner apparently fabricated him from the newspaper accounts of certain two criminals that terrorized the area of Atlanta within the early 1950s. As the story rotates around Christianity, the Misfit does not live according to the ways of Christianity. So as to reject Christ’s involvement in his life he goes around committing murders (O'Connor, 13). Thus, with regard to a society of Christianity among other factors, this comes out as a perfect character name in such a case.
Red Sammy Butts
According to a certain critic, the naming of this character seems to have been based on a certain local old good boy. Each year this "good old boy" does well and returns to Milledgeville on his birthday’s occasion to attend a banquet prepared by local merchants in his honor. As the owner of the outlined Tower restaurant, grandmother finds him to be a good man, gullible to a fault, as well as trusting. Among other characters, he also seems to be concerned with material gain (Flannery, and Fredrick, 16). Thus, with the depth of self-interest depicted, he might not be that good man after all, hence the name Red Sammy Butts.
Conclusion
As to her most short...
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