Grandmother Literature Reviews Samples For Students

In a short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, which was written in 1953, Flannery O’Connor describes a tragedy happened in a family because of how the grandmother behaved. O’Connor shows the grandmother as a person deserving compassion and pity at first, but then the actions of this character start to cause the reader feel anger and condemnation. The grandmother’s character does not stay the same throughout the story, but changes as the character realizes her mistakes and flaws when it is too late.

The grandmother is presented in the first sentence of the story as a simple ...

Organization

Literature Review (Snapping Beans)

In the poem, “Snapping Beans”, Lisa Parker has portrayed the story of the speaker and her conversation with her grandmother. The speaker is assumed to be a girl because the poet has used a distinctively feminine voice. The speaker and her grandmother are snapping beans while sitting together on a porch together. The poem then goes on to explore the series of emotions sparked in the mid of the speaker when the grandmother asks her a simple question, ‘How is school a-going’? (Meyer, 141). Upon being asked this question, the speaker embarks on chain of thoughts regarding the ...

The novel A Good Man is Hard to Find written by Flannery O’Connor tells a story about a family that is going out on vacation. The story uses a couple of literary aesthetics to tell the story. One theme that stands out is his evident use of religion, and Christianity for that matter. Through the Grandmother and the misfit, one gets to see how a Christ- like incarnation and the grace of God are brought out. There is recognition of divine powers in the story but then one is not mislead when looking at the Misfit as an anti- Christ figure. Nevertheless, ...

Introduction

Mishima Yukio is one of the most famous Japanese writers who is also famous for committing suicide, leaving plenty of unpublished novels, short stories and poetry behind. Her works are characterized by the increasing sensibility, attention to the details and symbols and are sometimes criticized for its homoerotic content. In some of the works Mishima Yukio wants to refresh and probably revive the memory about the traditional Japanese social system which is based on the imperial ruling.

Analysis of Confessions of Mask

The most prominent book of Mishima Yukio is called Confessions of Mask and it was written in nineteen ninety four and it ...

The six stories that we have read as a part of this unit are rich in terms of expression of theme and characterization. All of the authors weave images together to create powerful rhetorical arguments that entice the reader. From battlefield scenes to questions of the meaning of life, each story has a vivid collection of images that serve to bolster the ideas that the authors want to express.
The actual battlefield in which “The Field” takes place sets the tone and mood for the entire story. The three characters must hide in an underground crate to avoid the continuous ...

The society has changed and crime is increased and good behavior reduced among the youths which is not good for civilization. The unity in the society is not anymore which caused writers such as O’Conner and Oates to write on the behavior of the current society. It is with no doubt that a good man is hard to find in the present society due to loss of trust and many young people having adopted bad lifestyles. This means that the arguments written by O’Connor and Oates are very good in giving the picture of what the society ...

‘Instructor’s name’

Short fiction is one of the oldest forms of literature and has been there throughout most part of the human civilization in the form of fairy tales, parables and myths. The current model of short literature took form sometimes during the early nineteenth century in North America, and was popularized by the periodical journals. All through the history of art many forms of literature were famous during a given era, like the drama in the sixteenth century and essays in the eighteenth century. But throughout most of the nineteenth century, novels and short stories were the most popular forms of ...

Analysis - "The Mother" and “Daughters”

Poetry about family can often reveal fascinating dynamics in these omnipresent and complex relationships. In Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Mother," the regret and guilt that a woman experiences upon reflecting on the various abortions she has had throughout her life is presented in an intriguing and haunting way. The suffering that the mother expresses in this poem is done through Brooks' expert use of figurative language and repetition, as the potential these children had before her abortions, as she sees them, is made clear. Meanwhile, Lucille Clifton’s “Daughters” allows a young woman to imagine the grandmother she never met, and the ...

The story A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor is about a family that goes out to vacation. The Grandmother gives direction on the road to follow and then they find themselves in Tennessee and not Florida as planned. The family is set to perish at the end of it all and clues are given throughout the story that foreshadows the violent ending that is in store for the family.
They had gone too far when they realized they had taken the wrong road. The family is set to perish not because of natural mishaps ...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God. By Zora Neale Hurston

Abstract
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Their Eyes Were Watching God. By Zora Neale Hurston
Often times we read and we get to the climax and we feel cheated because the conflict(s) are not resolved; this is how I view the novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory. In this novel Sophie keeps running, the novel ends with her still running, yet, the reader cannot whether or not she finds freedom; whereas in the second novel, Janie comes full circle in search of herself and in the end she is happy ...

Introduction

Life has different attractions, points of interest, meanings or attitudes that varies across one’s existence. What might have seemed funny engaging at a young age might be considered irritating or upsetting at a more advanced age. This change in the attitude towards life is part of a process, the process of getting older and it is underlying the generation conflict. The generation conflict theme is common to the short stories that will be comparatively analyzed in this paper, respectively: Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. The generation conflict has distinct ...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (2006) tells the story of a nine-year old boy Bruno who comes from a very wealthy German family. He lived in a big and beautiful house in Berlin with his father who worked for the military; his mother who took care of their home; and his sister Gretel whom he considered a hopeless case.
He came home from school one day to learn that he and his family were moving to some place far away, which devastated him because it would mean that he would have to leave school, his three ...

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World

In her recently published memoire, My Beloved World, 1 Justice Sonia Sotomayor narrates her personal story, from her childhood growing up in a Bronx housing project up to the time she first becomes a judge. Focusing on the events and persons that made her the person she is today, she recounts how she becomes a successful lawyer and judge, overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, such as chronic juvenile diabetes and limited English language skills. She weaves an engaging story where many of her relatives and friends such as her paternal grandmother (Abuelita) and her Yale mentor José Cabranes come to life as ...

Angela Carter prominently retells the fairy tale story of Little Red Riding Hood, with more vivid and gruesome details as to the horrors of monstrosity. In The Company of Wolves, she first describes in detail the attitudes and machinations of wolves, providing examples using the concept of a werewolf compared to the anthropomorphized wolf in the original tale. Through Carter’s retelling, she envisions a tale of love that more closely resembles what could have happened in reality. Through this, the dichotomy of humanity and monstrosity is blurred when both exhibit traits that are supposedly exclusive of the other.
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The lecture, conducted by Dr. Dolapo Adeniji-Neil at the Adelphi University, gives us an insight into the problems experienced by internally displaced people in the contemporary world. The lecture material does not remind an excerpt from the history book about the events unfolding in a certain country, but makes the audience develop a sympathetic and respectful attitude to people who suffer from the situations that do not depend on them. Being internally displaced herself, the lecturer engages the audience into the topic with the help of real life stories that sound truly terrifying for people who do not face ...

In “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Zora Neale Hurston explores the theme of love through her main character, Janie. An attractive African American woman, Janie is the object of desire of men around her and she becomes physically involved, through marital relationships, with three of her pursuers. Along her journey as a woman married with three different men, Janie experiences two failures and one success in love. She learns the absence of romance, from her first marriage, the emptiness and frustration of a façade relationship, from her second marriage, and the passion and intensity of true love, from ...

A short story “Everyday Use” was written by an outstanding American poetess, writer, political activist and a feminist Alice Walker. The writer pays close attention to the problem of deracination and national identity of people. The short story under consideration is dedicated to the idea of national heritage, its meaning, and a changing idea about its value.
It has to be noted that nowadays, in the era of multiculturalism, people do not pay such a close attention to their cultural identity and do not try to make other people accept it, because they are respectful of one’s uniqueness, ...

Prior the American Civil War that marked the highlight of the gradually expanding rift between the Northern and Southern regions based on differing ideologies, abolitionism was a common theme in the country. The sympathetic Northerners sought to abolish the slavery system that had indefinitely supported white supremacy on American soil at the expense of the black race. Now, the calls for the liberation of slaves in the United States of America originated from two significant premises; the diverse economic practices and contradicting doctrines of black inferiority. The Northerners were industrialists and in need of cheap menial labor for their factories, ...

Discussion Board Answers

Part I.

When Jackson Jackson means that he has been “disappearing” slowly, “piece by piece,” (Alexie 401) he talks about his dissolving identity, on a number of fronts. First of all, his Native American culture has been trampled on by the brutal materialism of the American Dream, and his grandparents have passed away, taking with them his sense of personal history. As a result he has drifted from wife to wife and has now been homeless for six years. All it takes, though, is the return of his grandmother’s regalia for him to feel a sense of belonging: “I knew that ...

Upon finishing Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” I found my mind spinning with questions and emotions. The most striking aspect of this short story is O’Conner’s abrupt and violent ending to the story. Yet, upon closer examination, I believe that this ending helps to reveal some of the themes that O’Connor was presenting in the story. One of the most interesting themes that I found within the story was the idea of what makes someone a “good man” or a “lady”. I believe that O’Connor may be making commentary ...