Short Story Three

I read A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor and its about a grandmother, her son and his family taking a trip to florda. The grandmother really didnt want to go to Florida after she read the newspaper about a man who called his self the misfit aloose from jail headed to florda. Instead she tryed to convence her son Bailey to change his mind and take a trip to Tennessee, but he didnt want to listen. The next morning the grandmother was the first one in the car ready to go with her cat in a basket. After a while the children June Star, John Wesley, Bailey, Bailey's wife and their youngest baby got into the the car and off they went.

For lunch they stopped at The Tower For Barbecue Sandwiches and disscussed the misfit while they ate. When they left the grandmother recalled an old plantation that she remembered in the neighborhood they were passing by. When the grandmother got done describing how the plantation look John Wesley and June Star was very excited and wanted to go see it. So they begged their dad to turn around to go and see the plantation. Their dad "Bailey" gave in and said he would take them, but that was going to be the last time they stopped for something like that. So Bailey turned the car around and headed back for the dirt road they had passed for the plantation.

When they got onto the dirt road the grandmother had a horrible thought come to her. Soon after that the cat jumped out the basket onto Bailey's shoulder and made him have an accident. The car turrned over once and landed right side up in a ditch. Once the kids figured out they could move they jumped out the car and the grandmother was under the dashboard hoping she was hurt so that Bailey wouldn't be mad at her, because the horrible thought she had was that the plantation she rememered was not in Georgia but in Tennessee. Hoping that someone would pass by them soon a car pulled up with three men inside it.

When the mens got up closer to them the grandmother realized that she knew one of the men and it was the misfit. The Misfit told Bailey that the other two men Hiram and Bobby Lee wanted to ask him and John "Bailey's son" a question and would they take a walk with them in the woods. Once they got in the woods theyr'e were two gun shoots made. when the two men got back Bailey and John wasn't with them. Then the two men took Bailey's wife and the other two kids with them to the back of the woods and shot them too. Before they got back the misfit and the grandmother was having a convesation and she touched him and he jumped back and shot her three times in the chest.

This was a good story I didn't expect for it to end the way it did it was very intresting. It was also sad how they killed them the way they did especially the children. Instead of killing them the way he did i think the misfit and his crew could of at least thought and took in consideration of the kids. If Bailey would of listened to his mother before they took there trip they probably would still be alive but if the grandmother would of remembered that the house was in Tennesse and not in Georgia they still could be alive too. Well i really liked this story hopfully i could find another one that instrest me like this one.