Matt,
I tried commenting on your blogg and it said something about a blacklist and that I can't coment. Not sure why but here is my comment to your blog.
You have alot of good points from the story. However, did you also notice that the grandmother believed that she would die and that what she wore was because "in case"she died she would want to make sure she was properly dressed. Interesting that her character changed as well at the end of the story instead of being loud and bold she "sunk" into the ground and perched like a "turkey". She thought that by telling the "misfit" that he was her child would change his mind. The woman was scared and did anything to save her life. Maybe we would do the same thing if we were in that predictament. What do you think? I personally found this very disturbing. However, it is reality. I like reading your blogs they are very interesting. Mr. Jerz, also ask me "What I thought about the grandmothers change in character towards the end of the story" reasoning why I brought this point in because I really didn't notice until he ask me about her character change. Your also right about how ignorant they are of black people and that their comments were vain and disturbing. However that just showed that they are partial and do not understand what it is like to be poor because obviously they were not.
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Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at March 4, 2006 10:22 AMAs I was reading "A Good Man is Hard to Find" I found two very concrete foreshadows. The more important of the two takes place during the beginning of the family's car trip. As they are driving along the highway, they pass by a plantation. When the family looks at the plantation they see "an old family burial ground" with 5-6 gravestones. As you know, the family dies on their way to the plantation (depicted by the grandmother's story) and there are 5 (and 6 if you count the baby) members of the family. From this I've concluded that the plantation that the family passed by was actualy a foretelling image of their soon-to-come fate. The other concrete foreshadow is the name of the town that the family is in when they die: Toombsboro. This foreshadow is the easier of the two to notice. In a short story like this one, a town name embedded with the word "tomb" is not the town to be in.
I dont know if you guys are still studying this story. If you are, I came up with a pretty solid enterpretation that's kind of interesting.
This is a story that makes you think, we tend to make different interpretations!
Posted by: Charles Shaw at August 18, 2007 5:59 AM