Context & Background
What is the decade/cultural climate that O'Connor sets the story in?
What theme is this? The Grandmother seeing herself as refined and moral, but her actual behavior is manipulative and self-serving.
Moral Hypocrisy.
What is the literary device that involves events clashing with events set earlier? An example is the family ending up exactly where the danger is.
Irony.
What is this literary element that Eagleton defines as "pattern of sounds, beats, and pauses"?
Rhythm.
What religious upbringing shapes the Grandmother's belief that she can "save" herself and the misfit?
Catholic upbringing.
The Grandmother's constant longing for an idealized past that never really existed reflects this theme.
Southern nostalgia, the illusion of the "Old South".
This technique is defined as a detail placed early in the story that sets later events in motion. The Misfit being mentioned in the newspaper before he ever appears in person is an example of this technique.
Foreshadowing.
What is the element that Eagleton's defines as "orders of words in a sentence"? This is controlled by the grammar rules and sentence structure.
Syntax.
What is the social issue that the Grandmother's character is flawed by and tied to the "Southern Irresponsibility"? (Referenced on our slides).
What is the theme that is represented with the Grandmother's belief that her manners, class, and her pleading can control the outcome of her interaction with the Misfit?
Illusion of Control.
Red Sammy's rant and the Misfits monologue are both examples. This example was mentioned in the slides.
Dialogue.
Impatient, rude, and unable to think of others.
What was our Line of Inquiry? (LOI)
If you get the exact verbiage down, we will give you the points, but it has to be more or less exact.
To what extent does Flannery O’Connor utilize the lack of communication in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” in order to show the collapse of the family?