Comparative Analysis Of A Few Good Men

The motion picture A Few Good Men challenges the question of why Marines obey their superiors’ orders without hesitation. The film illustrates a story about two Marines, Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey charged for the murder of Private First Class William T. Santiago. Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, who is known to be lackadaisical and originally considers offering a plea bargain in order to curtail Dawson’s and Downey’s sentence, finds himself fighting for the freedom of the Marines; their argument: they simply followed the orders given for a “Code Red”. The question of why people follow any order given has attracted much speculation from the world of psychology. Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist,

A few good men starring Jack Nicholson Tom Cruise and Demi Moore is about ethic in the marines. Many characters in the movie are faced with moral dillemas Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholsons characters are faced with moral dillemas. The movie is about two marines who are accused of murdering there fellow officer, during the incestigation it is discovered that there is a practice called “code red” this is a unethical and unofficial disciplinary measure by the marine squad when a member goes against the unit. The offender is gagged, beaten, and then they are killed by their fellow officers. The accused put the blame on someone they said was higher up from them. They carried out the “code red” order because the officer was not living up to the

Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is the story of a family’s vacation tragically ended by The Misfit and his gang. On the way to their vacation spot in Florida, the Grandmother remembers a plantation in Georgia she used to visit when she was a young lady and desperately wants to see it. She tells her son, Bailey, what road it is on and everyone is excited to see it. After a while, the grandmother realizes that she was wrong about where the plantation was and becomes so upset at herself that she knocks things over in the car which causes a car accident. A passing car stops to help the family but the Grandmother realizes that one of the men is a murderer, nicknamed, The Misfit. While one of

Sports Illustrated writer, Lee Jenkins, writes about the impact of a small-town football coach had on his community, before and after death in the article “A Good Man Down.” The author explains the life of Ed Thomas, the head coach for the Apilington-Parkersburg football team in Iowa. Ed Thomas was shot and killed while training his athletes by Mark Becker. Lee Jenkins begins by using very detail accounts to bring out the pathos of the town, bringing the audience to feel emotionally connected to the town of Parkersburg.

In the O'Connor story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," Southern Gothic literature is portrayed. Southern Gothic literature paints a picture of what life was like in the "Old South" and also includes bizarre turns of events and outlandish characters. The grandmother, is the protagonist, and the main character of O'Connor's story, about a family that travel on a vacation together and lose their lives by "The Misfit," a random man on the side of the road. The grandmother, who remains unnamed for the duration of the story, demonstrates a "her way or the highway" type of personality. The family is going on vacation to Florida, but she has relatives she wants to visit in Tennessee. So, instead of just asking her son, Bailey, if they could go to Tennessee instead, she cleverly attempts to trick him by saying, "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people" (O'Connor). She then, continues her devious plot, by referring to the safety of Bailey's children, when she states, "I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did" (O'Connor). That didn't go as planned, so she tries again, implying that it has nothing to do with her, but the kids have already been to Florida. Throughout the story, Bailey's mother continues the same type of tactics to get her way. For example, she mentions that, at the old house in Tennessee, "There was a secret panel in this house," she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing that she were, "and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through but it was never found . . ." (O'Connor).

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” tells a twisted story of a typical family going about a road trip embedded with ethical pit stops along the way. The story revolves around a cynical grandmother and how her unconventional attitude and habits set the stage for an interesting turn of events. Through manipulative antics, a prejudice character and an ironic story line, author Flannery O’Conner creates a captivating tale that shines a lights on readers’ own moral codes. The author does this by making an example of a woman completely unaware of her own immoral acts.

Flannery O’Conner’s, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” brings a new name most closely associated with a southern gothic style of fiction and often the American south. The old woman is one of the main characters in her stories, even if she has no lines and does not play a direct role. Throughout the story the images of the south are frequent and quite interesting, while we hear the grandmother constantly talking about the good old days of the plantation south. This sickening understanding to almost every stereotype of the old South that the grandmother represents is just part of what makes her the grotesque character that she is. She only wishes to live in the past and refuses to move on forward from that.

“You’re The Misfit!” she said. “I recognized you at once!” “Yes’m,” the man said, smiling slightly as if he were pleased in spite of himself to be known, “but it would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn’t of reckernized me” (O’Connor 575). That is when the family’s road trip to Florida takes a turn for the worst.“A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a short story of a psychologically troubled young adult who seeks revenge on an innocent family. The Misfit is a character who has a great deal of psychological symbolism, who may have had childhood problems, and a character who has questionable moral truths.

It is not hard to idеntify a similarity of two things that look almost idеntical but whеn two storiеs havе complеtеly distinct contеnt , it is far from еasy to idеntify a similarity . For еxamplе, aftеr onе first rеads “Thе Nеcklacе” by Guy Dе Maupassant and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Mary Flannеry O’Connor, thеy arе both tragеdiеs that wе cannot link togеthеr. Both of thе sad storiеs wеrе writtеn in diffеrеnt еras by two diffеrеnt pеoplе, and thеy еnd in a distinct way. Howеvеr, if wе dееply dissеct еach story, wе can discovеr somе likеnеss еvеn though thеir contеxts arе disparatе. Although “Thе Nеcklacе” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” arеn’t similar tragеdiеs, both focus on thеir main charactеrs that suffеr from pridе, arе manipulativе, and

In O’Connor’s short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the setting contributes to the reader's understanding of Bailey's out of tune family. We can assume the story took place in the post-war mid century era given the fact that O’Connor wrote this story in 1953 and when the grandmother says, “the way Europe acted you would think we were made of money” (O’Connor). During the 1940’s and 1950’s the backbone of the American dream was “hard work, family values, and hope” (Desmond). Families from back then were big on respect and took family time seriously. When comparing a traditional mid century family to Bailey's family there is a distinct difference that allows us to label them as a dysfunctional family. Although we do not get a look into the family's work ethic, we do get a close enough look to see their lack of family values. Throughout the story there are several times where the family reveals that they are clearly flawed with the words they choose to say or simply with their actions.

Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find’ tells of a seemingly normal family with a bit of dysfunction. Throughout this tale, the author fabricates a number of characters, some inconsiderable, others full of depth and history that present themselves wildly open to interpretation. Looking into O’Connor’s past, it is clear to see her relationship with a number of these fictional minds and pull from these the meaning behind her hidden pain and anguish. We are therefore presented with a mother and sons family who are prisoners in a manipulative, destructive relationship.

Movie Analysis of A Few Good Men Movie Synopsis “We follow orders or people die” (Reiner,1992) 2:04:40) is indicative of the theme of conservatism and conforming in Rob Reiner’s 1992 film A Few Good Men starring Tom Cruise as young, Navy attorney Daniel Kaffee. Kaffee’s first nine months in the Navy has earned him the reputation of being the best plea bargainer in the office by tying up his opponents in legal red tape so tightly that they eagerly settle with his offers of reduced sentences. After forty-four successful plea bargains, he is assigned to defend two teenage Marines accused of murdering a fellow solider. Kaffee’s success comes from his lack of humanity and his inability to view his clients and opponents as people with truths and

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” talks about the story of a family that is going on a vacation trip to Florida which causes them to meet up with an escaped murderer that goes by name of The Misfit. The family members are your normal, basic family that has kids, a strung-out mother, a distant father, and an interfering grandmother that wants her way most of the time. They encounter the Misfit and his crew after their tragic car accident which was caused by the grandmother. She waves a random car down which she, later on, recognizes when the people get out of the car that one of the passengers was the escaped criminal called the Misfit. Despite the newspaper article description of the Misfit’s personality, he threatened their lives friendlier than expected and did it pretty much oblivious from the family until it was down to the women and the grandmother.

In the short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner. The family is headed to Florida and gets lost on their journey. The grandmother wanted to go to Tennessee instead of Georgia, she had read in a newspaper The Misfit that escaped from the Federal Pen. The Misfit had some psychological problems and was very dangerous being that he had just escaped the Federal Pen. On this journey, they toke the wrong turn and the grandmother had a horrible flashback while driving. While on the way the children were thrown on the side of the road and so was the old lady. This was exactly what the grandmother remembers vividly but they were in Georgia not Tennessee. This caused them to run into a ditch and cause an accident. Everyone seem to be okay after the accident, they patiently waited for someone to pass by for some help. They noticed a car passing and tried to flag them down, the car went up the hill and turned around. The car pulled up and two guys with guns got out, the grandmother had a bad feeling that it was someone she knew she just could not recall who he was. John Wesley asked, “Whatcha gonna do with that gun?(pg. 863)” He asked them to move the kids out of the way, the grandmother then remembered who it was. The grandmother said, “You’re the misfit!” he replied, “Yes’m” while smiling slightly, The Misfit, “but it would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn’t reckernized me.” These series of events derive from the central idea of the story, that

In every story there is an existing antagonist and protagonist. Some may be clearly pointed out, while others need a little more digging to find. The protagonist might actually be masked as the antagonist. This happened in Flannery O'Connor's short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,”. The Misfit was portrayed as the “bad guy”,but was actually the good guy in the end. The grandmother was the hidden antagonist of this story. The author made her the antagonist by making her selfish, manipulative, racist, and insincere.