This put a big emphasize on the how life's morals are transferred from one generation to the next. She wanted the reader to see how the people the parents were could be seen in the attitude of the children. As the trip to Florida begins grandmother settles in for the car ride and keeps herself occupied by taken in and enjoying the county, its sites, and informing the others about its history. Around this time, the children begin to reveal themselves as brats, and illustrate the lost respect and discipline. June Star and her brother begin slapping each other and the grandmother. Without say from the children's parents, the grandmother takes it upon herself to keep the peace between them, by telling them a story of a black child mistakenly eating her watermelon with initials from a suitor carved in it reading E.A.T. At one point John Wesley says: "Let's go through Georgia fast so we don't have to look at it much, John Wesley said. "If I were a little boy," said the grandmother, "I wouldn't talk about my native state that way. Tennessee has the mountains and Georgia has the hills." "Tennessee is just a hillbilly dumping ground, "John Wesley said, "and Georgia is a lousy state too." "You said it, "June Star said. This comment made by the children got under the grandmother's skin. She tried to explain to them that in her time children were more respectful of their native states and to their parents. "People did right then" (233). The families encounter with Red Sammy serves as another outlet for O'Connor to express how trust and respect have begun to wear away. As Red and the grandmother began to discuss better times, they seem to be close in age relationship. Their discussion leads them to learn they both share the same views that modern life and society have been changing for the worse. Red Sammy explained, "A good man is hard to find. Everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched.
