A Good Man Is Hard To Find Conflict Essay

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Every story that you read today all have a few things in common. Usually stories have conflict, irony, symbolism, and the overall theme of the story. The two stories “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, both have all four things. They have some alikeness and differences, some are obvious and some you have to look more in depth for. I am going to go through and break each part of each story down so it is easier to understand. Let’s start with the conflict in the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”. This story had a lot of conflict from the start. One example would be between the grandmother and the rest of the family. From the beginning you could tell that the grandmother and the family were two different type of people. It all starts off when the grandmother disagrees with the plans for vacation and wants to go to Tennessee instead of Florida. She argues with the family about the plans and no one really pays her any attention. One of the…show more content…
One of the few types is situational irony. A good example of situational irony from this story would have to be the fact that the grandmother says "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." but in the end it is her who is at fault for them meeting the misfit. Another type of irony is verbal. In the story the grandmother says a lot of ironic things, such as "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." Just as the last example of irony, it is a good example for both. The third example is dramatic irony. I think the best example of dramatic irony is when the grandmother keeps telling the misfit that he is a good man. He is not a good man but she insist on saying it to try to make him believe it. That is dramatic

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