Swaim A Good Man is Hard to Find
Irony
-"this is the last time we will stop for anything"
Foreshadowing
-If they find her body on the side of the road
Irony
-bringing the cat
foreshadowing
-passing Tomsboro> a "tomb" where dead bodies are kept .. The name of this place that they past sounds like tomb
The Grandma:
-protagonist -round character: at first she looks down at people but towards the very end of the story she sees people as all the same.
What does the grandma have at the very end of the story?
-she has an epiphany where she realises that everyone is the same
What does the Grandmother say to the misfit that seals the fate of the family?
-that she recognises him
-the car that the misfit was driving-hearse> carries coffins
-the car that the misfit was driving-hearse> carries coffins
What does she tell Baily why she doesn't want to go to Florida?
-there's a misfit running around
Why does Grandma get dressed up for the road trip?
-they will know she's a lady
Who is Edgar Atkins Teagarden?
-very wealthy man -she felt she should of married him
The real reason the Grandmother does not want to go to Florida.
-wants to visit family in Tenasssea
Most important example of Irony
-when the Grandma didn't want to go to Florida because of the misfit but then she ends up leading the family directly to the misfit.
Point of view
3rd person
Watermelon/E.A.T.
A Mr. Edgar Atkins Teagarden courted the grandmother before she married. What did he bring her and what did he carve on it?
A Good Man is Hard to Find
About a family who decide to vacation down to Florida from Georgia. Unfortunately on the way down they have an accident, after which they meet up with convicts and are then shot, one by one.
Took off his glasses and began to clean them
After shooting grandmother, what did the "Misfit" do
Bald, blue parrot shirted husband and father of June Star and John Wesley.
Bailey
Is on edge going on vacation.
Bailey
Is taken out with his son and shot by Bobby Lee, The Misfits partner.
Bailey
The Grandma's cat jumps on him and he crashes their car while they are looking for The Grandma's old homestead.
Bailey
June Star
Daughter of Bailey. Granddaughter of The Grandma. Talks disrespectfully to The Grandma. "We Had an Accident!" Taken out in the woods with her mother and newborn sister and shot by Bobby Lee in the woods of Georgia.
The Misfit
Escaped con on the loose somewhere going towards Florida. With Bobby Lee and , sees The Grandma's family vehicle accident.
Author of A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O Connor
Author
Flanney O' Connor
-the Forrest that looks like it's going to eat them up
Foreshadowing
Atlanta
From what city were they leaving?
The Misfit puts on her son's shirt after he has the son killed then she takes her figurative talk regarding his goodness to heart and trys to touch The Misfit.
Grandmother
The Misfit shoots her when she trys to touch him on the shoulder near the end of the story.
Grandmother
The Misfit
Has Bobby Lee shoot all of The Grandma's family out in the woods of Georgia.Says the law said they had papers on him for what he did but never saw those papers.
they made him nervous
How did the children affect the "Misfit"?
The Grandmother
Main character of the story.Very upbeat. Dresses like a lady for the family vacation so that if she is found after an accident they'll know that's what she was. Takes her cat with her on the family trip, unbeknownst to the rest of the family. Has a son named Bailey, whom she calls Bailey Boy. Is a Christian. Insists Bailey take a detour on a dirt road in Georgia because she wants to find her old house. Try's to talk The Misfit into sparing her life as she knows he's a good man.
John Wesley (son, age 8) and June Star (daughter with yellow hair)
Name the two children other than the baby?
Red Sam
Owner of truckstop where the family stops during their vacation drive. Has a monkey chained to a tree.
The action of grace by the granmother
Reaching out for/to touch "The Misfit"
The Misfit
Says the law said they had papers on him for what he did but never saw those papers.Doesn't know anymore what he did wrong to end up in jail.
Signing
Since the "Misfit" can't make all that he did wrong fit all the punishment he has received he has started _________ a written copy of what he has done wrong?
John Wesley
Son of Bailey.Grandson of The Grandma.Talks back to The Grandma and The Misfit.Is disrespectful to The Grandma. Is disrespectful to The Grandma. Is taken out in the woods with his father and shot by Bobby Lee.
Type of story that A Good Man is Hard to Find is
Southern Gothic
Shoot
The "Misfit" said grandmother would have been a good woman if there had been someone to ________ her every minute of her life?
Gray monkey
The "Tower" owner was lying on the ground working on a truck with a ________ chained to a chinaberry tree nearby.
EAT (carved in a watermelon)
The Grandmother had a suitor with what initials?
Bailey/Bailey boy
The Grandmothers son.
Foreshadowing
The author gives you hints of what is going to happen in the story
That the children had been to Florida before and should go to Tennessee to broaden their life
What argument did the grandmother use to convince the mother?
The one about "The Misfit" escaping from the Federal Pen and heading to Florida
What article in the newspaper did she use to try and convince him?
Grandmother upset her valise causing the newspaper over the basket to let Pitty Sing out. She jumped on Bailey's shoulder
What caused the accident?
He is bald.
What color is Bailey's hair?
Bright yellow with blue parrots on it.
What color is Bailey's shirt?
The children yelling
What convinced Bailey to turn off?
Bailey's yellow shirt with blue parrots on it
What did Bobby Lee bring back from the woods?
It was a hillbilly dumping ground
What did John Wesley say about the state of Tennessee?
Tap dance routine
What did June Star do to music in the restaurant?
Gray-striped with white face and orange nose
What did Pitty Sing look like?
Jumped up and yelled that he was the "Misfit"
What did grandmother do once she recognized the man?
Pray
What did grandmother keep telling the "Misfit" he should do?
All her money
What did grandmother offer him not to shoot her?
Sprang back and shot her three times
What did the "Misfit" do when grandmother reached out and touched him after saying that he was one of her own children?
Meanness
What did the "Misfit" find pleasure in?
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
What did the children order at Red Sammy's?
Comic books
What did the children read in the car?
A black battered hearse like car with three men in it
What did the grandmother flag down?
Tell them a story
What did the grandmother say she would do to keep the children from fighting over the cloud game?
Big black valise and a basket with Pitty Sing, the cat.
What did the grandmother take in the car with her?
Caught fleas on himself and bit them
What did the monkey do as the children watched?
"The Tennessee Waltz"
What did the mother play with her dime on the nickelodeon?
Green head kerchief
What did the mother seem to always wear on her head?
That the house she had remembered was not in Georgia but Tennessee
What had the grandmother remembered before letting the cat out
Railroad worker, Gospel Singer, Undertaker,
What has the Misfit worked as?
Cut on face and broken shoulder
What injury did the mother have?
Pitty Sing
What is the cat's name?
June Star
What is the daughter's name?
Bailey
What is the name of the grandmother's only son?
John Wesley
What is the son's name?
That it had a secret panel with silver hidden in it
What lie did the grandmother tell to try and get Bailey to turn off to go see an old plantation house?
Bought Coca-Cola stock when it first came out
What made Mr. Teagarden wealthy?
The orange sports section of The Journal
What was Bailey reading at the beginning of the story?
The orange sports section of the "Journal"
What was her son reading when she tried to convince him not to go to Florida?
He didn't have any britches on
What was strange about the appearance of the little black boy standing in the door of a shack?
Pitty Sing in a black valise to her left.
What was the Grandmother hiding?
Slacks and a Green Headkerchief.
What was the mother wearing?
not a cloud in it not any sun
What was the sky like while grandmother talked with the "Misfit"?
Guns
What were the three men carrying?
The woods
Where did the "Misfit" order Bobby Lee and Hiram to take Bailey and John Wesley?
With the wind
Where did the grandmother say the plantation, now a graveyard, had gone?
East Tennessee
Where did the grandmother want to go instead of Florida?
East Tennessee
Where did the grandmother want to go?
The Tower
Where does the family stop first?
Florida
Where was the family going at the beginning of the story?
The older skinny one with glasses and no shirt
Which man was familiar to the grandmother?
Bobby Lee and Hiram
Who are the two men with the Misft?
cat
Who did the "Misfit" leave alive?
Europe
Who did the grandmother blame for people not being nice and trustworthy anymore
Bobby Lee
Who does June Star not want to hold hands with?
Red Sam
Who first said the "a good man is hard to find?"
Red Sammy Butts (fat man)
Who owned "The Tower," a barbecue place they stopped for lunch?
He didn't look like he had common blood but came from good people
Why did grandmother say that the "Misfit" must be a good man?
Interesting to see how far they traveled
Why did the grandmother write down the mileage?
If they had an accident people seeing her on the side of the road would know she was a lady
Why was the grandmother dressed up?
The daughter in law
Wife of Bailey, mother of June Star, John Wesley and the newborn. Is taken out with the newborn by Bobby Lee and shot in the woods of Georgia.
