Flannery O"Connor, in her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," brilliantly utilized vivid imagery and twisted irony to foreshadow the fate of the entire family. ... The grandmother, Bailey, his wife, June Star (the little girl), John Wesley (the little boy), and the baby make up five or six people, depending on how you view the baby. ... At the very instant one learns of the car headed toward the family, "a big black battered hearse-like automobile" (478), one knows that the confrontation between the Misfit and the family is about to take place. ... In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Fla...

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In Flannery O"Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the gruesome ending comes as quite a shock. ... The grandmother embodies in her character many foreshadowing elements in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." ... The entire family ignores her except for the little girl, June Star, who easily reads the grandmother like an open book. ... Furthermore, while they wonder what to do next, a "big black battered hearse-like automobile" tops the hill coming towards them, presenting the last clue before the actual killings begin to occur (Jones 2887). ... She keeps repeating hers...

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In Flannery O"Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the gruesome ending comes as quite a shock. ... The grandmother embodies in her character many foreshadowing elements in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." ... The entire family ignores her except for the little girl, June Star, who easily reads the grandmother like an open book. ... Furthermore, while they wonder what to do next, a "big black battered hearse-like automobile" tops the hill coming towards them, presenting the last clue before the actual killings begin to occur (Jones 2887). ... She keeps ...

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The smile on my face was as big as an elephant. ... Until I got in the game going against bigger guys. ... Big lights and a little mist in the air. ... Little things make the big things possible. ... A hour before the game we would walk out as a team to and I would just think to myself, lets go Rodale you got this man. ...

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Fitzgerald wasn't the brightest man. ... Many people thought that "A Diamond as Big as Ritz" made fun of rich people. ... (Pace "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz...") ... In "Babylon Revisited" a man Charlie struggled with alcohol. ... One little man with eyes really witnessing; objective in all he uttered, even about himself in a subjective slump; arrogant in just one connection, for one purpose only, to make his meaning clear."...

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Little do the readers know, the lottery in the story's case, is being stoned to death. ... Finally, the last way irony is shown from the actions of the townspeople, is when Mrs.Delacroix selects a rock so big, she could hardly carry it. ... Almost every little detail in this story has a bit of irony to it, including the names of the characters. ... One prime example of this is the way Old Man Warner responds to Mr. ... This is completely ironic as Old Man Warner thinks it is right to have the lottery, but if any right-minded person were to read this short story, they would think the lotte...

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Little do the readers know, the lottery in the story's case, is being stoned to death. ... Finally, the last way irony is shown from the actions of the townspeople, is when Mrs.Delacroix selects a rock so big, she could hardly carry it. ... Almost every little detail in this story has a bit of irony to it, including the names of the characters. ... One prime example of this is the way Old Man Warner responds to Mr. ... This is completely ironic as Old Man Warner thinks it is right to have the lottery, but if any right-minded person were to read this short story, they would think the lotte...

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Jackson uses three specific meaningful numbers to hint the lottery is derived from an immemorial sacrifice and it is not a big deal for the town people any longer. ... The description of such two numbers implies that the villagers do not care about the lottery and they do not think it is a big deal. ... Summers is a "jovial man" (137). He is a both forward thinker and successful business man. ... Adams chatted with Old Man Warner about that "'they're talking of giving up the lottery over in the north village', Old Man Warner snorted" (139). ...

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The cyclic pattern of the narrative gives a structural framework to the story in which very little actually happens. ... In the setting of The Drover's Wife, the reader's attention is obtained through the use of adjectives such as "stunted, rotten apple trees- and "big, black, yellow-eyed dog-. ... It is the older Joe looking back on the younger man he once was and a story about how he met his wife. The tone of the story suggests the distance in time between the present and the past and also emphasises the gap between the man he was and the man he is now. ... "Joe Wilson Courtship- i...

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After completing the story, my hopes of the kind of man Nick Adams would grow to be began to dwindle because whether you are only a little child or even a grown man, the matter of witnessing a death is not one that can be dealt with easily. What worried me the most was the fact that the Indian man's suicide was a memory that would haunt Nick for the rest of his life---a fact held true by Hemingway, as is seen throughout the entire book. Though the particular incident of the Indian man's suicide is not incessantly brought up during the duration of each short story, the issue of dea...

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Another example of total disregard for life and property due to the mind shackling is found on (pg 182), "Susan and I arrived just in time to join the cheering as a big elm crashed down on our sedan. ... The story finishes with the greediness of one man using the device at will to achieve whatever he likes. ... Harrison, a young man of extreme intelligence and physical prowess, is a clear metaphor for the fight against the "machine" or the "man." ... Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses." ... The p...

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Later in the story, a man arrives in a squeaking wagon appears in front of the house and converses with Elisa (248). ... I raise them every year, bigger than anybody around here" (249). ... The man applies the same concept toward Elisa. ... Her emotion is expressed in this quote taken after the man asks for some sprouts: ""Beautiful," she said. ... She swung full around toward her husband so she could not see the little covered wagon and the mismatched team as the car passed them. ...

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Sherman Alexie is Native American, and his stories expose one of America's dirty little secrets. ... I will analyze the short story, "Every Little Hurricane", taken from the anthology, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. ... When he sees "an old, [drunk] Indian man drowned in a mud puddle at the powwow" (Alexie, p 7) he understands that alcoholism is not his family's problem alone. ... His writing pulls the cover off of America's dirty little secret of what life is like growing up on the Reservation. ... Why not use Alexie's own words, &quo...

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It shows examples of inhumanity, and it is a big eye opener. ... On the little free time he did have, he liked sailing. ... A little boy that walked by was eating a pair, but he took one bite and threw it down. ... They found a dead man lying in the corner. ... Watson passed away and in her will she stated that Jim be a free man. ...

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Few would deny that "A Good Man is Hard to Find,"" is a grotesque story: A grandmother and her family on vacation are ruthlessly killed by an escaped convict. ... In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the physical appearance of the characters contributes to this grotesque reality. ... His chapter entitled "Physical Portrait: The Ugly Human Body " looks specifically at characters in "A Good Man..."" (5). ... She believes the hats in "A Good Man..."" symbolize the characters' rejection of grace. ... Overall, McMullen finds little religious hope in most of O'Connor's writing. ...

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It isn't uncommon for a forty-two year man to be under a lot of stress to the point where he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. ... More likely stress is caused by those little annoying thoughts that stick in your mind and bother you as well as daily responsibilities that put pressure on you. ... However Novins puts aside his personal morals because he believes in the long run he will benefit because Cumberland is a big international company and they were paying him six digits (Ellison 7). ...

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A single mother knew there was little help to be found and the child would be hard pressed for a descent upbringing socially and economically speaking. ... Armand had changed to a kinder man after his marriage and the birth of his son and it may have been the only time in his life he was truly happy. ... Madame Valmonde noticed the baby's mixed ancestry immediately when she went for a visit, exclaiming out loud at first sight of him "this is not the baby-(2), Desiree thought she was referring to how big the baby had grown. ...

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