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Flannery O'Connor/"Good Man" & Revelation
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A 5 page essay that analyzes, contrasts and compares two short stories by O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Revelation." In both of these narratives, O'Connor offers detailed characterizations that, intertwined with violence, aid the reader in perceiving religious, social and philosophical issues that pertain to Southern culture and its changing nature during O'Connor's era. While O'Connor does not state any overt religious message in these narratives, in both stories she indicates through the events described certain truths concerning the darker recesses of the human psyche, particularly in regards to the Southern women who are her protagonists, relating these themes to her own unique religious and spiritual perspective. No additional sources cited.
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Flannery O'Connor/A Good Man is Hard to Find
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A 5 page research paper/analysis in which the writer discusses how to approach this short story from a feminist perspective. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor/A Good Man-Themes & Criticism
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A 4 page essay/research paper that investigates the writing of Flannery O'Connor, focusing specifically on Good Man as a representative short story. The writer discusses how this short story has been interpreted by critics and what critical opinion has said about O'Connor's typical themes. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor/Cause & Effect in a Good Man
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A 3 page essay that examines Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." The writer argues that this is a short, but intensive psychological study. Although there are other characters in the story, it is principally about the elderly woman referred to as the grandmother and the escaped criminal who is called the "Misfit." Each of these characters is the product of cause and effect. An examination of the story shows how each of these warped characters is the product of the social situation that produced them. No additional sources cited.
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Flannery O'Connor/Comparing 3 Short Stories
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A 7 page research paper that examines three of Flannery O'Connor's short stories--"A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "Everything That Rises Must Converge," and "Good Country People." The writer argues that the underlying message for much of O'Connor's fiction is that while one may endeavor to avoid self-examination and the "deeper questions" of life, these issues are unavoidable and will inevitably have to be faced. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor/Good Country People
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A 4 page essay that discusses O'Connor's short story "Good Country People," which illustrates how O'Connor expertly crafts characterization, imagery, symbolism and irony in order suggest how divine grace will can plant the seeds of redemption in what seems like the most unlikely of circumstances. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor/Good Man Is Hard to Find
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A 5 page research paper/essay that examines O'Connor's famous short story in regards to how the author blends the topic of narcissism and cultural ethnocentrism with a view of spirituality that blurs the line between what is "good" and "bad," forcing the reader to consider the psychic pain of the "Misfit," as well as the sinful nature of the presumably "good" woman, the grandmother of the family. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor/The Mystery of Grace
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A 10 page essay that examines four short stories by Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find; Good Country People; Greenleaf and Revelation. The writer argues that each of these narratives shows how O'Connor was fascinated by the ways in which grace, that is, redemptive understanding of basic flaws, can come to individuals who desperately need it. Sometimes this understanding comes at the last second of life, but, more significantly, O'Connor focuses on the fact that it does come, and this is integral to her theological perspective. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor: Theme
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4 pages in length. The writer discusses theme as it applies to Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," "Judgement Day" and "Everything that Rises Must Converge." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Flannery O'Connor: Themes
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An 8 page examination of Flannery O'Connor's recurring themes as seen in three stories. The stories summarized and analyzed are "Revelations," "Greenleaf," and "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Bibliography lists 10 additional sources.
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