Flannery O’Connor is a unique author. She has her own way of writing, which makes her style unique like her finger print. O’Connor’s writing reflects the time period she grew up and the time in which she was living when she wrote her stories and her catholic religious background. O’Connor wrote many literary pieces ranging from fiction to no fiction and short to long stories. Flannery O’Connor was born in Georgia in 1925 and died in August of 1964 from lupus, which is what her father had also died from according to Bruce L Edward Jr. Many of “O’Connor’s works were labeled by critics and scholars as “grotesques”” said Bruce L Edward Jr. In the literary work “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the reader has to question one’s…show more content… An anti hero is defined as “a main character in a book, play, movie, etc., who does not have the usual good qualities that are expected in a hero” (Merriam-Webster). Movies and television shows have become surrounded by the idea of an anti hero and so many of us television watchers and drawn into that theme, and may not even know it. In the television series “Bones” in season six a character named “Jacob Broadsky” is commenting murder by killing people who are the bad guys of the world and he can be compared to the “Misfit” in “A good Man is hard to find” because the man killed a family because to him it bettered the world by having one less family that would be raised on the belief of racism and rudeness. The character Jacob Broadsky said in one of the episodes “I'll tell you what. The day I wake up and there are no more bad people that need killing, you're the one I come to”. This line shows us that the anti-hero is trying to do good even though justice is suppose to come through our government system, but many believe that justice will never be accomplished and they take matter into their own hands, and do the punishment that they see fit to the crime. Just like Jacob Broadsky, the misfit said in “A good man is hard to find” “She would have been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there…show more content… O’Connor’s catholic faith comes out in this story because the grandmother is trying to stop the man from killing her and the wife and children did not fight to go. Why is this? Take a step back and look at the Christian religion. The children and mother did
Burleson 4 not fight to die, they went as they were told because they weren’t scared, but the grandmother did not want to die. Maybe she was not ready to die or she didn’t really believe in god and didn’t know where her soul would be going. The anti-hero in the story kills the family, but why kill them when everyone deserves a second chance to turn their lives around? Everyone deserves sympathy even the people who do not do good, or the ones that have views that are not the social norm and not acceptable. The children of the story are mean and hateful. In the beginning of Flannery O’Connor’s story the grandmother and the children are talking and they said:
““She wouldn’t stay at home to be a queen for a day,” June Star said without raising her yellow
