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    Hard To Find Misfit

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    The Misfit repeatedly refers to Jesus and his teachings, although he is far from a Godly man. He stated that only Jesus had ever brought back the dead and criticized him for doing so. For someone that does not go to church and has devoted his life to making

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    Reflection About Misfit

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    The response is based on my experience that was faced with overcoming the obstacle of my "misfit" situation, which began on September 8th, 2015 that continued onto April 11th, 2017. It will feature the overall story, evidence, and my obstacle of finding the best college for me. This paper has a strong sense regarding to the definition of “misfit” doing something out of ordinary to where I’m at as a college student. Now, onto my experience. I was sitting in Study Hall then I overheard a conversation

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    The Misfits Book Report

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    This marking period I read the book The Misfits By James Howe. In the MIsfits there were four main characters named Bobby Goodspeed, Skeezie Tookis, Joe Bunch, and Addie Carle. The story took place in Paintbrush Falls, NY. They had made up a group called “The Gang of 5” this gang didn’t really fit in with everybody and they always got made fun of for being fat, tall, skinny, ect. There were only four of them but they called themselves the gang of five because they thought that maybe somewhere in

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    The Misunderstood Misfit In the book “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”, Flannery O’Connor shows that due to being misunderstood the misfit choose resentment towards the world. The following is the reason I think he could be misunderstood the incriminating evidence against him, a lack of conscience, and if he believes in Jesus. The family wants to take a trip to somewhere exciting. There is a disagreement amongst the family to where to go. Bailey, (the father) the grandmother’s son wants to take the

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    person, but looks can be deceiving. The misfit in this story, is that a guy's fate was in the hands of another and he has learned to accept it. The misfit seemed to accept the crime he did not commit and then continued to go in the wrong direction.  He says he woke up and there's a wall to the left of him and to the right. When the misfit and his buddies went to go help the

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    The Misfit A Good Man

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    She only proceeds to call the misfit a good person once she figures out the man she is speaking to is indeed the misfit and in a way begs for her life by calling him a good man. The misfit is unshaken by her comments as he needs to protect himself over the lives of a whole family. 4.The misfit’s life philosophy can be described in once sentence spoked by him “because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment”. The misfit describes how the punishment he suffered

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    The Misfit: Moral or Immoral? You are sitting in your living room watching the daily news. The newscaster tells a tragic story of what happened earlier that day. A family of five was murdered after surviving a car accident. After hearing the story, you think to yourself: “Why? How could somebody be so cruel? What drives them to act that way?” In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” this disturbing scenario takes place. Flannery O’Connor tells a story of a family and a grandma that take

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    encounters the Misfit while on their journey to the ‘’treasure.’’ The two main characters in the story are the Grandmother and the Misfit. While the Misfit is an escaped convict, obviously seen as the bad guy, the Grandmother seems more evil to me. 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

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    The grandmother changes her attitude towards Misfit as if he was a son. She treats him nicely and even offers her own son’s belongings for Misfit to use, “Maybe Bailey has an extra shirt in his suitcase” (478). She also tried speaking to Misfit about God and prayer, “Do you ever pray?” (479). She has a long conversation with him to buy time and think about how to get out of the situation she brought upon herself and her family. Hence, I don’t believe she was being genuine. She was doing everything

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    The grandmother is a sympathetic character, in the begging Bailey her son wanted to take the family on a trip to Florida. The grandmother showed him an article about The Misfit whom escaped from the Federal Penitentiary and was headed towards Florida. She was sympathetic in this situation by saying “I would not take my children in any direction with a criminal like that loose in it. I could’t answer to my conscience if I did.” She was showing that she did not think it was a smart idea or safe to

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