Good Vs Evil

I believe The Misfit took his religion serious but he was confused. The grandmother never took her religious faith seriously. Her final gesture is a genuine moment of grace. Once again she is trying to be manipulative, but The Misfit is one who she cannot manipulate, or is she?

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 Misfit thinks it meanness to believe in Christ because there was nothing for him. In Flannery O’Connor stories writes about religious matters to her characters. Like the Misfit he lacks believe of religious, but the other hand the grandmother tries to make him believe the sense of it. “Thus, Miss O'Connor's fiction is primarily concerned with man's life-and-death spiritual struggle” (Dowell 236). The Misfit tells his story why he became a killer to the grandmother. He struggled with his life where the point he just became a criminal. When he killed the grandmother he had self-insures. He felt sorry for the grandmother that she ended up that way at the end. “Because he cannot believe, the Misfit commits himself to evil” (236). She doesn’t believe that he can be an evil person because everyone is missing something. She talks to them until he understood what she is getting at. She tells him he is like one her children:

The Misfit on the other hand is a borderline psychopath, who is extremely violent; he commits these violent crimes on people and sees nothing wrong with it. The Misfit does not see the things he does as wrong because he had to serve time in prison for a crime he claims he did not do, so all of his actions have been paid for by his time in prison. He told the Grandmother “Jesus thrown everything off balance. It was the same case with Him as with me except he hadn’t committed any crime and they could prove I had committed one because they had the papers on me (461).” He compares himself to Jesus because of his thoughts of his innocence. He believes since neither of them committed a crime and both got charged for something they did not do that they are the same. He believes everything wrong he does has been paid for by his unnecessary jail time.

The misfit set out to obtain a life of crime. Though his logic is flawed, he still sticks with his belifes. These are not the qualities of a bad guy. The misfit may not even be human, but a force. The grandmother was manipulative and she needed to pay the price.

When the grandmother touches him the Misfit and says he is one of her children the Misfit gets surprised as if a snake had bitten him and shots her three times. He was flabbergasted because the grandmother was able to see the Misfit as another suffering human being whom she is obligated to love. Just like Jesus said to loved everyone even your enemies. Even thouhg she knew he had shot her entire family she had hope that the Misfit will ask god for forgiveness and move on. However the Misfit kills the grandmother recoiling from what seems so foreign to him, but he grandmother has already had her momnnt of redemption. She comforted a murderer

Despite the fact that The Misfit rejects all the grandma 's contentions, he tunes in to them nearly; he gives careful consideration when the grandma alludes to Jesus. At the point when the grandma is finally alone with The Misfit, she forsakes every last bit of her strategies. Her set out clears toward a moment, in which she sees the killer as thin, slight, and wretched. She connects and tries to touch him. He withdraws in aversion and shoots her. Having been observer to the grandma 's snapshot of beauty, The Misfit concedes that it’s no longer fun being mean.

The grandmother is a good person on the surface—at least the community thinks so—but she is also ‘mean.’ She forces her family to obey her; she sees them as an extension of herself; and she seizes ‘every chance to change’ reality. Because she convinces her son to turn the car toward the house with the ‘secret panel,’ causing the family to meet The Misfit, she seals everyone’s death. She tries to adopt the Misfit, giving him well-meaning advice and false love. (21)

It is not until the family is faced with a criminal who calls himself "The Misfit" that the truth behind the grandmother really comes to the surface. The grandmother immediately recognizes him and ignorantly calls him out on his identity, which puts her family into more danger than before. Her son Bailey is so angry with his mother at this point that he "says something to his mother that shocked even the children" (Paragraph 85) and it becomes even more evident that the woman has been provocing angry feelings from her family for some time now. Even the children have made remarks towards the woman throughout the story, which is a devastating blow when even your own family has negative feelings towards you. Throughout all of the responses from her family, the grandmother still continues to act in her usual selfish ways. Once she is faced up against The Misfit, the grandmother begins trying to manipulate him just as she has done to her family. She tries to persuade him into trusting that she believes him to be a "good man at heart".(Paragraph 91) At this point the grandmother has always been able to manipulate those around her, but The Misfit proves to be not so

By altering her perception during this moment, the grandmother realizes that she had fooled herself into believing in her false superiority. Recognizing the harsh reality allows her to feel compassion for her family and the Misfit. Despite her enlightened transformation, she still falls victim to the Misfit’s punishing shots.

The Misfit acts in self-interest by having the family killed in order to escape the risk of capture after the grandmother identifies him. While this is what is expected of the infamous Misfit, it takes the grandmother exposing his identity to bring it about. Instead of committing the murders initially, as he was notorious for, he had stopped to aide a car that had been flipped and damaged (O’Connor 207). The alternative, and far more illustrative of the evil would have been to have killed them but alternatively to that even, would be for his car to not even have stopped to help the family. However, the Misfit does not view his acts as purely malicious, but rather as a method of making up for the

Unfortunately, Stacey Jay isn't William Shakespeare and so the story lacks some compared to the play. The idea behind good versus evil and two sides trying to get more leverage over the other, it's amazing, but she just doesn't focus on it enough or explain how it works, so you're left confused and wondering why it's even part of the story to begin with. This among other things such as who is left alive or dead, will Romeo get punished for letting Juliet succeed in her tast, are all unanswered questions that she ends the book without explaining. The most frustrating thing of all though is how little it references back to the original work so unless you know the play, you can easily get lost and confused. Stacey Jay writes about Romeo and

A car then stops, and three men come out with guns, one of which is believed to be the misfit. The misfit scares the grandmother and urges Bailey’s wife to make the children sit down. The grandmother can only think about herself, and selfishly asks the misfit if he’d ever kill and old lady. She starts to suck up to the misfit by claiming that he’s a good man and comes from good people. A “good man,” by her definition, is one whose values align with her own. He’s apparently good, because by her reasoning, he wouldn’t shoot a lady. The misfit begins to praise his parents and when she questions whether he prays, two gunshots cease the life of her husband and John Wesley. The grandmother doesn’t seem too concerned about the gunshots and urges the misfit to pray. Throughout the conversation, as the Misfit reflects on his life, he explains how he went to jail for killing his father. The grandmother wants him to pray, but the Misfit believes he’s fine without prayer. The misfit’s co-conspirators eventually kill off everyone except the grandmother. What the grandmother fails to realize, is that this whole situation could’ve been avoided if she didn’t ignorantly point out the misfit originally. The misfit expresses his doubts of Jesus and he quickly becomes angry. The misfit claims that life has no pleasure, the grandmother reaches out to him and claims he’s one of her children. The misfit then shoots the

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“Some people cross your path to change your direction and others cross your path to change your perception”. The tale of good versus evil has been told from the beginning of time and is still one of the most debated topics of all time. In the story, a “Good man is hard to find”a family of five, Bailey, John Wesley, The grandmother, June Star, and the mother goes on a vacation to Florida but changed course and find themselves in Tennessee where all the family members meet their untimely demise. During the course of the story's climax, each character goes through a life altering change but the two characters that have the biggest impact of all upon the story would have to be the grandmother and June Star. These two characters show their different