Great Grandma Vs. Charles

Charlie talks about Norma his younger sister the most but Charlie only remembers bad memories with his sister for example Norma use to become jealous of he brother because she thought he was getting special treatment.

In Gabrielle Roy’s The Road Past Altamont, the stories recount Christine’s time as a girl, leading into her transformation as a woman. They explore thoughts and movements of both Christine and her family. The Almighty Grandmother and The Road Past Altamont have resonant themes of aging, distance and displacement which highlight most of disagreements the grandmother, mother and daughter have in the stories. Roy manages to capture the relationship of grandmother and mother, as well as mother and daughter in separate stories, but at the same time conveying the similarities of what happens as each woman ages over the course of time. The repetitive cycle for these women is inevitable when comparing how

The short story Charles, by Shirley Jackson, revolves around the problem that a little boy named Charles has been misbehaving very badly at school. In the beginning of the story, it starts off as a little boy named Laurie’s first day of kindergarten and by the end of the day he comes home talking about a boy named Charles being bad in class. At the climax Laurie’s mother has had enough of this Charles kid and feels the need to meet his Charles’s mother at the PTA meeting. The story resolves with Laurie’s mother finding out that Charles was not real and instead Charles was Laurie. Jackson uses many literary devices in order to build the curiosity in the story. Specifically, Jackson uses foreshadowing, indirect characterization, and third person

The Grandma is prim and proper and self-acclaimed to be very ‘lady like’ yet is extremely crass in her mannerisms. From the very beginning of the story the grandmother begins to show her selfish ways. “…and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. 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 1). Though the grandmother is not specific in her selfishness, it seems her indirectness is what gets her nowhere in her statements. As a result of this, neither her children nor her grandchildren do not show reverence for her. Without the parents respect for the Grandmother, there is no possibility for her to gain the grandchildren’s respect. Here again we have another character whose role was not the main role, but one who has a lesson to teach if the reader is willing to dig deep enough to find

The story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, anticipates the audience to recognize a male as the focus of the story but instead there are two main characters. Flannery O’Connor focuses her story on the grandmother and The Misfit as the two main characters. It is throughout her story and juxtaposition of the characters that the author conveys conflicting moral codes and faith between The Misfit’s principles triumphing over the grandmother’s principles. The literary device that expresses the theme of the individual’s opposing values is the use of indirect characterization in contrasting differences of appearance, speech and actions.

Both incidents are prime examples that show the grandmother?s behavior. We see that the grandmother is selfish and uncaring. She claims that she is a "good" person, yet she criticizes everyone and always wants to get her way. She hides the cat and lies about it to her son; she did not consider how anyone would feel about her bringing the cat. Yet, on the other hand she is very concerned with social opinion. She is dressed nicely, her excuse is that "in case of an accident anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know that she was a lady" (O?Connor 907). This shows that the grandmother was very concerned with people?s opinion. She acted proper, had strong virtues, values; a good woman in her view. But she was a self- centered person who judged others harshly, so that she would look good.

One difference both characters have is that the grandmother at the end seems to find spiritual peace. At the beginning, she described the misfit as a bad guy, but the moment she touched him, she connected with him and knew he was a

In the story “Behind Grandma’s House” the young child is perceived as a misfit rebel that is trying to express himself by scaring animals and cussing at a factious pastor (291). These are two completely different characterizations of the youth. Marion is a prime example of an outgoing person that will go far in life where as the young child in “Behind Grandma’s house” is the complete opposite and would be the personality that would be getting in lots of trouble on many occasions and possibly making nothing of himself. The two stories have two completely different characterizations of the elderly. In “Behind Grandmother’s House” the grandmother is the voice of reason in the story. She hits the young child who is behaving poorly to discipline him. The grandmother knows what is right and wrong and would be considered the outgoing person in the poem much like Marion in “A Visit of Charity”. In a “Visit of Charity,” there are two elderly women one is just named the first woman and the other is the woman in bed (117). The woman in bed is a complete pessimist. She argues with the first woman about everything that comes out of her mouth including whether the two women enjoyed the last Campfire Girl that came to

To start off with one major difference is the point of view of the stories. In “The Lottery” the point of view is omniscient (all-knowing). “Charles” point of view is 1st person because it is told by the wife. To add to the three major differences is the genres. The genre of “The Lottery” is horror because of what happens at the end. The genre of “Charles” is comical because of the stuff that “Charles” does. To sum up the differences between the stories is the tone. The tone of “Charles” is comical. In “The Lottery” the tone of the story was serious which is different from

Another aspect of the story that stood out to me was the title. I kept asking myself, “Why did Porter pick Weatherall to be Granny’s name and why was she jilted?” Soon the answer came to me. She picked Weatherall because granny had “weathered-it-all”. She had seen, been, and lived through many

Joy and the Grandmother are ultimately different there's no debate there, but when put in "do or die" situations they both have similar qualities. For instance, they both referenced Jesus or religion to try and help their-selves bail out of the situation. In "Good Country People" Joy says to Manly Pointer "You're a fine Christian! You're just like them all- say one thing and do another" (GCP 13). On the other hand, in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" the Grandmother says to the Misfit"If you would pray,

In the book a Long Way from Chicago, Grandma is a smart, willing, helpful, independent, and competitive woman who knows what she wants. She knows how to weasel her way out of things like stealing the sheriff’s boat to go fishing during the great depression. Also, she takes specific things from other people’s past to use it against them. Grandma also has two grandkids, Joey and Mary Alice, that she loves more than anything. She wants to anything she can to get them what they want. For example in one summer Joey wants to get driving lessons from Ray Veech, so Grandma goes through her entire attic and finds stuff to sell at a bring and buy sale at her church. She chose the old stovepipe hat that had the initials M.T.L. stitched into it, but it

God’s grace gives everyone the equal opportunity to go to heaven, even murderers and hypocrites. His grace allows them to be forgiven of their sins. He knows nobody is perfect and O’Connor dramatizes this point in her story painting a descriptive picture of her main characters’ flaws. She shows that both the grandma and the Misfit have the potential for grace from God. Flannery O'Connor in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” restates the Christian theme that everyone deserves grace by rewarding the grandma and The Misfit with it.

A literal interpretation of the grandmother portrays an elderly southern woman attempting to maintain the proper and genteel values of the South. The grandmother places great importance on her appearance and the opinions of others. This importance is revealed at the beginning of their journey when the story compares the grandmother, a reflection of the past, to the daughter-in-law, a reflection of the present:

While the stories are somewhat similar, the actual characters and scenery are very different. On one hand, you have an older, hard working man and his small rural family that are the main focus of the actual original story. On the other hand, you have a smug, crafty women that pairs up with a young lawyer and his mother and younger sister in a bay town in America. While we still see the story take on the same basis and almost the same plot ending, you can't help but notice how different the styles are between the two.