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story a good man is hard to find is so grotesque because it starts out like a
normal trip that a family would take and it turns bad very quickly. There are
many things in this story leading you off the trail of what is going to happen
in this story. As it starts there is so much hope that they are going to return
and what makes me think this is the grandma writing the mileage on the car
before they left. This story doesn’t start turning bad until they wreck there
car in a ditch, which is right after the route that the grandmother sent them
on was wrong, after they wrecked a car happened to drive by and there were
three men and they got out. The family started to get uneasy when they saw guns
on their hips. These strangers started to seem like they were going to help
them and said the car would take about 30 minutes to fix. Then the grandmother
realized why the person looked familiar it was the misfit. This is when the story
starts turning more grotesque, it goes from happy family vacation to a
nightmare where this family is being separated and killed. The family is killed
off one by one until the only person is left is the grandmother she begs for
her life and even calls this murderer her baby, once this has happened he shot
her. This is so grotesque because there was no emotion in this killing and the
family had done nothing to deserve this, so in the end the family seemed hopeless.
I like how you describe grotesque as being emotionless. I never thought of it like that.
ReplyDeleteYeah after realizing it and getting to be familiar with it, grotesque seems emotionless. :)
ReplyDeleteI think this is a very good overview of what happened in this short story.
ReplyDeleteI think you got a good sense of the whole story, and it did seem hopeless toward the end. There was nothing they could do or say to stop that misfit from killing them.
ReplyDeleteYou have to be careful that you aren't only providing plot summary. There's really only one sentence here (the last) that works at answering the question I posed.
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