"A Good Man is Hard to Find," or "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (Essay Sample)

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"A Good Man is Hard to Find," or "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
The stories of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," Joyce Carol Oates, and "A Good Man is Hard To Find " Flannery O'Connor, both of the main characters are trapped in the men who are going to end up killing them. Both say how you can talk your way out of danger, evil. When the dangerous trap you, flattery or a pretty face is not going to get you out of trouble. In the end, they can even cause own death.
Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find", as well as Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, and Where Have You Been?" They are unusual stories that are the literary grotesque by the appearance of turning points. Or something of the printer or a mark by which at the same time calls on the audience or reader feeling uncomfortable bizarreness. Of course, O' Connor's stories, the grotesque often is used to convert the character of grace. For example, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" grandmother is converted when she identified herself as a misfit: "Why you are one of my children," she tells him. In this case, the grotesques call empathy with the grandmother.
In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" the main character Connie is a very attractive young girl who makes a lot of people's attention. Unfortunately, one day she caught the wrong man. While his family went to a family picnic, Connie decided that she wanted to stay at home. She heard a car pull up, and when she caught a glimpse of the boys she recognized the driver of the night. The drivers said, his name was Arnold's friend. They wanted to take her for a ride, and Arnold was very persistent. Finally, she noticed something about the guys. They were not boys. "Connie felt a wave of dizziness will rise in her at this spectacle and she stared at him as if waiting for somewhat to change the surprise of the moment, make it alright again" pg. 371.
Connie told them that they should leave, but they did not. Arnold began to talk about the barbecue, that her family was like he was there and he knew every name. Connie began to panic, she told Arnold that he was crazy and she's going to call the police. Arnold promised that he is not going to go after him, if she did not touch the phone. "She rushed forward and tried to lock the door" But why lock "Arnold friend said, it is just a door" p. 373. He moved on to harass her. He said: "it is all over for you here, so you come out, you do not want to have any problems with your people do you?" p. 376. In this statement, she ran into the back room and picked up the phone, "she felt her breath starts jerking back and forth in her lungs, as if something like Arnold friend was stabbing her over and over again with no affection. After a moment, she sat on the floor with his back to the wall in the wet, "p. 376. Then she went out to the screen door, where Arnold friend waited. She had given up. She knew at the time that she could not save himself.
In "A good man is hard to find" the main character, who tries to talk her out of getting killed is a grandmother. Was a killer out called the Misfit and heading toward Florida, where the family was going to be. In spite of the Grannies to try to prevent them from going, they went anyway. On the way, they had an accident. They were trapped in a ditch. Then the three men stopped and came out of the car. They had guns, and when the men came down to, "the grandmother called out," You felt you at once you are misfit "." Yes, but it would have been better woman, for all of you, if you did not have recognized me, "" p. 387.
When the grandmother talked to misfit, his son and grandson were taken into the Woods. "It was a pistol shot into the Woods, followed closely by the second. Then silence. The old woman head twitched around the Bailey boy! She cried out, "p. 390. When man came back she was when dragging the shirt with them. The grandmother couldn't think of what reminded her. Misfit put it on, "the children's mother had begun to make heaving noises, as if ...