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I think Flannery O’Connor is a lot like the grandmother in the story of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Throughout the story the grandmother kept making religious references such as ” children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else. People did right then” (“Flannery O’Connor”). She also kept asking the Misfit about prayer. The grandmother does not really worry about anyone else throughout the whole story, and Flannery does not really come off as a caring person either. Flannery relates to the qualities the grandmother has as well. She is very honest and straight forward when she says things. She does not care if someone thinks she is mean when she makes comments on things, just like the grandmother.

Citation: “Flannery O’Connor.” Novels for Students, Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ2168100017/GLS?u=avl_cvcc&sid=GLS&xid=f439572b. Accessed 31 May 2018.

The event in the story that could have changed the ending of the story is that the grandmother should not think she knows everything. If the grandmother would have just sat in the backseat of the car and not said anything the whole car ride, the family would have made it to Florida. She caused the road trip to go wrong at least two different times. The first time she caused the road trip to go wrong was when she assumed that she remembered where the dirt road was located. She confused two different states with each other, and she did not even tell anyone that she was wrong. The second time she caused the road trip to go wrong was when she blatantly told the killer she knew he was the killer. That was the stupidest thing she could have ever done.

I can understand why people call her ” Queen of Mean” , but I just think she is being honest. Most people often miss interpret honesty for being mean. Some people like things sugar coated, so when another person comes right out and says what is on their mind it could catch a person off guard. I love that she is able to see things for what they are. She is very open about interpretations on things, and that makes her writing much more interesting. She just gets straight to point, and she does not drag things out. That is why her short stories are the best because her writing is more honest. Other writers try to portray characters as something they could be, rather than what they actually are. O’Connor however, describes them in a way that tells you exactly how they are instead of making them out to be a person they are not.

The end of the story really threw me off guard. I was not expecting the story to end like that at all, only because most of the things the grandmother said actually became true. She was preparing for her death before she even left the house, and she had no idea it was coming. O’Conners last sentence in that story was very odd. It contradicted his actions throughout the story. I had to read the last part of the story over and over again to really grasp what just happened. He was talking with the grandmother like he was not going to kill her at all. When he shot the rest of the family, I assumed that the grandmother was going to be the only family member to survive because of how he connected with her instantly. Shooting her three times really threw me off because not once, not twice, but THREE times. He connected with her deeply and shot her three times, but every one else that he had no connection with was only shot one time.

My biggest complaint about writing papers is how each professor wants them written differently. It is so confusing taking English classes year after year and still have no idea how to write a paper. Its even more confusing for people whose first language is not English. Do you want us to use big words or simple words? Do you need the paragraphs to be perfectly squared? Do you want my paper to summarize my topic or analyze my topic? Dont even get me started on writing a paper without the letter I. That is just plain cruel. When am I ever going to write something without I? PLEASE for the sake of everyone that ever has to take English, come up with one way for everyone. It would make our lives so much easier. It would help going into an English class that you don’t have to worry about how square your paragraphs are or if you want big words or simple words. However, people who want to be an author or a journalist need to go through that. Wow, I didn’t realize how picky English professors are until I started typing this.

I was watching this movie on Amazon prime called Killer Cove, (8.5/10 recommend) and I expected this movie to be a basic stalker-ish movie. It’s about this divorced women who lives in a huge beach house by herself, with huge glass windows that have no curtains hanging on them. She goes outside close to sunset one night and she sees this man start climbing up this big sand hill watching her house. She runs inside and locks the door. The next couple of days she keeps bumping into the same man she saw watching her house. She gets worried so she hires a private investigator. The private investigator saw the man heading inside of her house so he tackled him and knocked him out. The investigator knocks on her door to tell her about what happened and she sees his head is injured so she invites him in to help him. Later on the womens ex-husband shows up to her house yelling at her and he grabbed her. Well the investigator did not like that so he broke his nose. Now the ex-husband thinks the investigator and her are dating. The ex husband begins doing these tasks that makes it look like the private investigator has it out for him. The women finds a microphone attached to her lamp from where the investigator bugged her house. She immediately broke things off with him, but he had already heard her whole conversation. Her friend calls her and tells her she is held captive and to come meet her there. She gets there and is on the look out for the investigator and she finds him and hits him with a brick right before he was about to tell her something important. She thinks she is safe now BUT WAIT, her ex-husband is now holding a gun to her head. It turns out the whole time she was worried that the private investigator was the bad person, it was actually her ex- husband who was out to get her. I was not expecting that at all.

My favorite childrens book is ” One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish” by Dr Seuss. My mom read almost all of the Dr Seuss books to me when I was younger. One of the reasons I think it is one of my favorites, is because when I was younger I did not quite understand what the story was actually telling me. The whole time my mom read it to me I always thought it was actually about fish. Even though fish are used in the story I believe they were just used to display that no matter the size shape or color of them, they are all still just fish. Another reason I loved it so much is because you can interpret this story in so many different ways. If you dig even deeper, I am sure there is another meaning for this book , and that’s what makes it even more entertaining. No matter how many times I read it, it still doesn’t seem to bore me.

This blog is going to be about my crazy journey throughout English 102. It is going to display all of the writing posts I am assigned by my professor. I have heard from students in the past that she is very outgoing, so I expect to talk about the most random things in her class. The phrase “my way or no way ” is taken very literal in Mrs. Vances class. She means what she says. Enjoy all the topics I post about and I’m sorry in advance if you don’t. I hope you enjoy the long adventure we are in for. : )