Tuesday, April 23, 2013

fully good people do not exist

 "A Good Man is Hard to Find", by Flannery O'Conner is a short story about a family who goes on a trip and gets in some trouble along the way.  The author describes each character, the goods and bads about them, and how they pertain to the story.  All in all the annoying grandmother gets the family lost on the trip and puts them into a situation that wound up getting them all killed.  They come into contact with a man and his "crew" who were on the run, and he killed everyone that was in the car on the trip.  Before he kills them, the author gives each character a "moment of grace" where they become a "good person" before they die...making it seem like that was the moment where they saved themselves before they went...hopefully...to heaven.  I do not think that anyone is a "fully good" person. No one is perfect, and people make mistakes every day.  A lot of people probably have that "moment of grace" right before they die to use that as an apology for all the wrong-doing they've done, but an all around good person, does not exist.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with what your point is! I do believe however that good people do exist just not the next saint or Jesus. Everyone makes mistakes and sins, we're human!

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