Persuasive Essay On The Misfit

“Hey guys! This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you” (Qtd. In Krakauer 69). After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned everything, gave his entire savings account to charity, and then hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wild. In the novel, Into the Wild, Was McCandless justified in shunning society? McCandless was justified in shunning society because he simply wanted to find himself and be independent without any distractions from his friends or family.

In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, she shows us that everyone has more to them than what they allow us to see.

The Misfit is depicted as a ruthless criminal who is in search for balance and sense in the world. However, everything that he has done, was done for a rational reason, in a way. There is a lot of evidence shown in the exchange between the Misfit and the grandmother. He claims that there is no God, because he did not see or experience anything that may be miracles or the act of God, "If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can-by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness" (O'Connor 152). In this moment, it shows that he does not believe unless he sees it for himself and until then he will continue to commit crimes, trying to bring balance and sense to the world he sees. The Misfit does not go out to do good or save anyone, instead, he goes out to kill people and commit other crimes. He does this because he believes that no matter what he does that he would still be punished in the end.

Ponyboy and Johnny did make the right decision by running away after killing Bob with a switchblade. I am on this side because many bad things could have happened if they would have stayed. If they did stay they would have gotten more hurt, they would have gone to jail, and the authority favors the Socs over the greasers. Even though they could get in more trouble when they get back because they hid, it is more likely that they won’t. I think that both ways will turn out bad for both of them, but I think that running away will be best.

In the beginning, the grandmother is reading the newspaper where she then learns about the Misfit who escaped prison. The grandmother says, “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscious if it did” (O’Connor 485). This quote foreshadows as the accident happened with her guidance on the road it is what led them to steer off the main road. They were on and into the arms of who they call the Misfit and his

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.

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.

”As the family assesses its injuries, a man who is obviously the Misfit drives up with his armed henchmen. The grandmother immediately feels that she recognizes him as someone she has known all of her life, and she tells him that she knows who he is” (Garbett). After their car having struck the railroad's the family waits for help. A car pulls up and a pair of men emerges, led by a shirtless, a bespectacled man with a gun. The man gives orders to his cohorts to inspect the family car and retains Bailey in polite conversation until the grandmother recognizes it as the Misfit. The grandmother made worse by the fact that if she would keep her mouth shut, none of them have been killed.

She screams and The Misfit says that it’s not good that she had recognized him. The Misfit orders his two men, Hiram and Bobby Lee, to take the family two by two into the woods. The grandmother talked to The Misfit about religion and his childhood. He says the first time he went to jail was for a crime he doesn’t remember committing, his psychiatrist told him he had killed his father. The grandmother tells asks him about his childhood, he says he was a gospel singer and he’s fine on his own without praying for Jesus. As Bobby Lee and Hiram come back from the woods, The Misfit asks them to take the baby and June Star to the woods as well. Then he compares himself to Jesus but, Jesus didn’t commit a crime. He says he gave himself this name because his punishment doesn’t seem to fit the crime people said he committed. The grandmother hears a gunshot coming from the woods, then she begs The Misfit not to shoot her and chants “Jesus, Jesus”. He blames Jesus for confusing him about everything. He then adds that if what Jesus did raise the dead and was true, then everyone would follow him. The grandmother agrees that maybe it wasn’t true. She calls him a child of her own, then The Misfit shoots her three times in the

No outcome is ever the same as another. There’s always a different ending. If there wasn’t, life would be on a loop. This is what Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scholar, begins to worry about in Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. He made a promise to make another creature of the opposite sex for the one he has already created. However, the creator opened his eyes, and realized that there are negative results to this deal that has been made. The young scholar didn’t want to break the promise, but he was looking for the best interest of his family. One reason why Victor didn’t want to make another monster was because this female monster that was about to be built still posed as a threat to the Frankenstein family. She may feel hatred of some sort towards their family, and may

I am going to agree because I personally believe that no one is going to be perfect and able to always make the right decisions and judgements. Just because they are leaders or experts doesn't make their claims automatically correct. It is necessary for people to challenge against the authority they are disagree to make it better for other people. Just as the book Fahrenheit 451, and the slavery time period in America.

The grandmother replies to Red Sammy stating that he did that due to the fact that he is “a good man.” The Grandmother further applies the phrase good man to the Misfit. The Grandmother asks the Misfit, “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?” (1,049). Misfit replies, “I would hate to have to” (1,049). The Grandmother believes that Misfit is a good man based on this even though The Misfit hates to accept that he would not shoot a lady. She further complains that the family should never abandon their doors open without the worry of burglary as they have always done. She places part of the blame on Europe for her nation’s decline and curses Europeans for spending a lot as thrift appears to be another aspect of her definition of decency. Curley argues that the Grandmother’s sense of goodness is built on traditional morals (Curley 47). In fact, in the wake of the imminent cruel murder, she believes that her old age and “respectability” will stop the Misfit from hurting her. But for Misfit, the definition of a good man is futile. He believes that he is not always a good

The irony of the story is that it is under the directions of the Grandmother that leads the family into a run in with The Misfit, which is what she told her son she would never do. Throughout the trip we are given examples of the racism that was present during this period. The Grandmother makes multiple racist innuendos such as her observation of the “cute little pickaninny,” and her statement that “little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do” (O’Conner 2). During the ride, The Grandmother convinces Bailey to take a detour down an old, dirt road which supposedly leads to an old southern plantation home she once visited. The road leads them deep into the woods where an accident is caused by The Grandmothers cat, which leaves the car upturned and the family stranded. It is then the family encounters The Misfit, whom discovers them stranded as he was passing by. He approaches the family with two young men and shortly after The Grandmother lets out a scream as she realizes him. During their encounter, the readers are given a small glimpse into the deranged mind of The Misfit. It is apparent that he has an upturned moral compass. He gains pleasure from committing crimes and the meanness that goes along with it. During his conversation with the Grandmother, he slowly has his men take members of the family out

Why spend money that is really needed for other things? Why live uncomfortably? Why be trapped in this hole called a home that belongs to another person? Why not live free and peacefully? When a person rents he or she usually throws away money that could be used to purchase something that belongs to them. Money is not easy to come by so why pay out hundreds toward something that is not benefit to the person paying it out. There is no good explanation for making a decision like this. The best option in a situation like this is to buy a house. Buying a house is a better option than renting an apartment.

Having escaped rule from a tyrannical British government, the United States was founded on ideals of freedom and equality for all people. These fantasies of universal egalitarianism turned out to be merely that: fantasies. American history is full of stories of the oppressed struggling to get the rights they deserve and of the controversy over these issues that consequently ensues. “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery” by Frederick Douglass and “We Shall Overcome” by Lyndon B. Johnson are two speeches made confronting two of these issues. Douglass’s speech, delivered in 1852, condemns the institution of slavery and maintains that slaves are men and are therefore entitled to freedom. Johnson’s speech, on the other hand, was written in 1965 and discussed the civil rights movement. In it, he implored local governments to allow all American citizens, regardless of race, to vote. Despite the significant gap in time between these two addresses, both speakers use similar persuasive techniques, including ethos, pathos, and parallelism, to convince their audience that change needs to be implemented in America.