Sacrifice In A Good Man In Hard To Find

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In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man in Hard to Find” the journey that the grandmother embarks upon has the steepest price of all. As the story begins the grandmother is greedy, concerned with only she wants, going as far as change the entire direction of the trip. She does this twice, once in changing the original direction from Florida to Tennessee, as well as the detour onto the dirt road that would throw the family directly into the lap of tragedy. Some of these decisions such as bringing her cat on the trip would affect her negatively as any of her selfish decisions could have changed the course of her destiny. As her greed for controlling the trip led the family down the dirt road upon which they would wreck, and her inability to leave

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Les Miserables: Comitment Essay

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A Brief Note On The Allusion Of Opportunity

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