Journal on “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

essentially the primary(prenominal) point of the story, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, is that the sophisticated society has drastically degenerate over the past years and that the exactly way for it to change is for mass to repent and renew their faith in God. In addition, the author, Mary Flannery OConnor, claims in her story that the most of the youthfulness directly no longer has moral values unlike the prior generations. In other words, the story is alike a compari news in the midst of past and contribute societies and generations.To illustrate her points and show her comparisons, the author used the characters as symbols of the past and present societies. The grandmother represents the past generation in which people were more disciplined and showed more respect as compared to the present generation.This variation between the two generations was shown at the beginning of the story wherein the grandmother failed to pack her sons family to go to Tennessee instead of Fl orida. The mere fact that her sons family chose an alternate path on their way to Florida, which resulted in their execute at the hands of a young man and his gang, shows that the generation today tends to stray from the path that they should be taking.Basically, the point of the author is had the family remained on the main road or had they went to Tennessee instead of Florida, they would not have been killed. On the other hand, the murderer, a relatively young man called the Misfit in the story, according to the author, symbolized the present status of the youth today misguided and violent. Before the Misfit killed the grandmother, she tried to incline him that he was a good man. In the end, however, the Misfit refused to listen to her and shot her third times in the chest.The author was very effective in conveying his message that the values of the generation today, particularly, the youth, have significantly deteriorated. In addition, she also convincingly showed how the pre sent society lacks faith as depicted in the Misfits refusal to believe in Jesus in his conversation with the grandmother.