Evil In The Misfit

In the world, society teaches people to fear the unknown. Tim Burton uses many techniques to show a misfit character and would agree that there are many misfits in the world. In Burton’s films he shows that those misfits are looked down on and shamed upon. In Burton’s films he uses the style elements of misfit protagonists and snobby antagonists to convey to the viewers that society wrongly teaches people to fear the unknown.

The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is often associated with a various number of themes such as racism, social inequality, the importance of family values, and much more. But one of the more hidden messages of the book centers around the idea that there is a coexistence of good and evil. This theme is really brought to life the more the reader is able to understand the book. Through sub themes such as coming of age, perspective, and intense characterization of many important characters the idea of good and evil is really brought to light.

The final comment of the story seams to be showing a change in misfits' life. Misfit seams to be thinking about goodness and probably thinking that evil is not the answer to the problems in his life. The story shows us that a lot of people are evil, but when they are in trouble they will think of god, as grandma did in the story. At the end of the story Misfit regrets killing grandma, and says that "she would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. (O' Connor 318)." The story is trying to tell us that do not flight all the time and be evil, because you never know what may happen to one. O' Connor is trying to tell us that every man has good and evil in him, but some time we only see one side of them and forget that they have another side as well. The final comment of the story implies that even though misfit seams evil, there still might be some goodness in him. Misfit has gone thorough so many challenges in his life that have made him this way, because he has no faith.

The grandmother is portrayed as being a selfish self-involved woman who wants her way, a person with little memory, just a basic old woman living with her only son. The Misfit on the other hand is a man who feels he has done no wrong, but has just been in the wrong place at the wrong time, but in the end comes too close to the truth, which scares him.

The Misfit is our antagonist in the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O’Connor. He is a mysterious man who’d give you the sense of trust, but his actions are not pardoning. He’d show the qualities of a good man and the qualities of a psychopath. His background and stories don’t quite fit his actions, that is why he calls himself “The Misfit.” Although The misfit’s actions are ringing the bell of a psychopath, his inner-self shows otherwise. The Misfit is full of flaws but he is no psychopath, he’s just a man who is forced to live a life that was not meant for him. Deep down inside he’s a good man, but life forced him to act differently.

He acts like a mirror. He lets whatever the Grandmother says bounce right off him. He never really agrees with her or disagrees, and in the end he is the one who kills her. His second to last line, “She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life,”(O'Conner 425). might be the way O'Conner felt about most of us alive, or how she felt that God must feel about us. The third, and final stage of the Grandmother is the moment of recovery. She finally sees The Misfit for who he really is, a person just like her. He is not someone who was made by his social class. He is a simple human being just like her. At this point she sees herself in relation to everyone else. She finally realizes that her class does not make her. Society makes the class, and she just fits into it. She shows this by claiming that The Misfit could be one of her own beloved children.

Both the Misfit and the Grandmother are living in a false reality and just cannot seem to see the ultimate reality of the world, no matter how many times that they have been shown that the way they do things is not the right way. They both may be considered as very different people by appearance, but in actuality they are both living in a false reality where they always think they are right and nothing they ever do is wrong in their minds. She tries to make him pray and tells him he is

The story provides evidence that good and evil can not be determined by one contributing action. An individual who wants to assist those is not considered the same type of good man as an individual who has respectable morals, but still decides to murder. O’Conner illustrates to the reader that The Misfit was considered a good man because both he and the grandmother shared the same values, so she believed he would never shoot a woman. The grandmother believed Red Sammy to be a good man because he was humble to an individual who he felt was in need. The Misfit was still considered evil he killed the family, but the grandmother insisted that he was good.

Only one of his characters are sympathetic and that was the last person to die to show for it. The grandma of everyone was the only one who cared about being respectful and caring towards towards other but it was hard with her family. The grandma tried to make the best out of every situation and looked for the good in things like in the old days. When talking to red sammy they talk about what the old days were like and how this day and age is terrible, "A good man is hard to find," Red Sammy said. "Everything is getting terrible. I remember that day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more.". They both agree on that life was much better when everybody respected other and that they need more people who care about well

In this story, violence was the reason that causes the Grandmother to seek Redemption and Grace (Bandy 107). The first sign of evil was when the family gets a quick look at the Misfit's automobile. "The car was being driven slowly” (Evans 190). It was a dark battered hearse-like vehicle" (Evans 190). The Misfit, like the grandma, is called by a title instead of a name. The title of Misfit

The grandmother in the beginning of the story sees the Misfit as a vicious criminal on the loose. However, now when she sees vulnerability in the Misfit, she tries to exploit it and show acceptance and love to one that only knows “meanness.” The Grandmother is not showing moral strength, but changing her moral beliefs and ideals once again to save herself, but to no avail, as the Misfit quickly jumps back and shoots her three times before she can exploit his moment of

Ten years later, Flannery O’Connor explains her story in “A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable.” In this criticism, O’Connor says that the Grandmother in this story has a transformation in her mind at the end which she noticed her mistake and is waiting for grace. I think there is another approach that the Grandmother’s gesture does not show any regret; she tries to save her life the entire story. The Grandmother has always been selfish during the whole trip and was emotionless on the death of her family.

The irony in the story is shown when the grandmother, who thinks she is a good Christian, in reality is just as evil as the Misfit.

The Misfits was violent and wanting to kill someone and they didn’t have spiritual guidance like the grandmother. It clear they didn’t have moral either like the grandmother, because she thought she was superior to everyone. The Misfits knew who they were and showed it throughout the story by being self-aware of their situation. The grandmother lacked this characteristic, because she thought she right all the times.

The Grandmother in this story uses the term "good" to classify inadequate things. Stephen C. Bandy, writer of "One of My Babies: The Misfit and the Grandmother" states, "Indeed, the opposing categories of "good" and "evil" are very much in the air throughout this story. But like most supposed opposites, they have an alarming tendency to merge." In other words, the terms "good" and "evil" seem to merge together in this story. For instance, the grandmother seems to classify corrupt individuals as people who are good. One example of this would be when she called Red Sammy, the owner of a decrepit barbecue joint a