the title of the story is significant because on the surface it means one things and under the surface it means another. When I read the title of the story I thought it would be about love, and a women who gets her heartbroken, but the title takes on a different meaning. The grandmother thinks she has found a good man, but he ends up killing her.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
A good man is hard to find
This short story is about a family road trip that goes wrong. On the road trip the family car spins out on the way to a house that does not exist. They try to get someone to stop and help them and the people that do are the "misfit" and his crew. The misfit has recently escaped from prison, and everyone in the family knows it. The misfits crew ends up killing everybody. This story tells me that people cannot be trusted. The grandmother of the family has a conversation with the misfit about his upbringing and christianity, and the grandmother starts to believe that he is a good person until his crew shoots three members of their caravan. The grandmother started to trust the misfit, and she got "shot down". (pun intended)
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