Inhumanity in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find and Shirle

In Flannery OConnors, A computable Man is delicate to Find, and Shirley Jacksons, The Lottery, both short stories deal with mans barbarity in different situations, and suppressing with a similar consequence. Jackson and OConnor both use two characters to depict man having the power to manipulate truth and remonstration into something people accept. In OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find, the Misfit is a character in need of desired assistance, troubled and confuse he wanders savagely murdering strangers. On the opposite side of the ring, you have a seemingly traditional early 1900s Caucasian senior citizen traveling with her family. Hasting to unfounded time, the grandmother drives her family all through the Southeastern states. The two meet in a tire blow out, and for the grandmothers wicked mouth this exit be the end for the entire family. In a haste reaction trying to spare her own life other than her already dead family, she extends her arm towards the cold killer trying to unravel the slightest last bit of morality the Misfit has. At that moment, her Christian morals are revealed, but sadly the old woman finally was silenced. The Misfit discharged his gun, scared and just in awe at the hope and desperation the grandmother had in her Christian hopes of saving her life. Humorously towards the killing the Misfit quotes, She would of been a unspoiled woman, The Misfit said, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. In Matthew 1039 Jesus says, Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. OConnor delves into this paradox in several of the short stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find. For instance, the grandmother in A Good Man Is Hard to Find loses her earthl... ...er not using her voice caused her to lose her life by not speaking she already had placed her hands into contrivance obedience resulting in her stoning. Being very inhuman, these stories tackle the very essence of inhum anity in tradition. Are you willing to play the lottery? Works CitedHooten, Jessica. Comp. Baylor University. EBSCOhost laissez faire in OConnors A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, (2008). EBSCO Publishing Service Selection Page. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.Connors, Flannery O A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Pegasus Web Server Home Page. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.Shields, Patrick J. EBSCOhost Arbitrary Condemnation and Sanctioned Violence in Shirley Jacksons the Lo... Vol. 7.No.4 (2004) 411-19. EBSCO Publishing Service Selection Page. Dec. 2004. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery--Shirley Jackson. Classic in short Stories. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.