Inhumanity in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find and Shirle

In Flannery OConnors, A well-behaved Man is Hard to Find, and Shirley capital of Mississippis, The Lottery, both short stories deal with mans inhumanity in different situations, and ending with a similar consequence. Jackson and OConnor both use two characters to depict man having the power to cook truth and objection into something people accept. In OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find, the Misfit is a character in fatality of desired assistance, troubled and confused he wanders savagely murdering strangers. On the face-to-face side of the ring, you have a seemingly traditional early 1900s Caucasian senior citizen traveling with her family. Hasting to waste time, the grandmother drives her family all finished the Southeastern states. The two meet in a tire bollix out, and for the grandmothers wicked mouth this will be the end for the entire family. In a haste reaction difficult to spare her own animateness story other than her already dead family, she extends her arm toward s the cold killer trying to unravel the slightest last bit of morality the Misfit has. At that moment, her Christian morals are revealed, but sadly the old woman finally was silenced. The Misfit laid-off his gun, scared and just in awe at the hope and discouragement the grandmother had in her Christian hopes of saving her life. Humorously towards the killing the Misfit quotes, She would of been a good woman, The Misfit said, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. In Matthew 1039 Jesus says, Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. OConnor delves into this paradox in several(prenominal) of the short stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find. For instance, the grandmother in A Good Man Is Hard to Find loses her earthl... ...er not using her voice caused her to lose her life by not public speaking she already had placed her hands into blind obedience resulting in her stoning. beingness very inhuman, these stories tackle the very essence of inhumanity in tradition. be you willing to play the lottery? Works CitedHooten, Jessica. Comp. Baylor University. EBSCOhost Individualism in OConnors A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, (2008). EBSCO Publishing helper Selection Page. web. 15 Nov. 2010.Connors, Flannery O A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Pegasus Web Server Home Page. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.Shields, Patrick J. EBSCOhost Arbitrary Condemnation and Sanctioned force-out in Shirley Jacksons the Lo... Vol. 7.No.4 (2004) 411-19. EBSCO Publishing Service Selection Page. Dec. 2004. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery--Shirley Jackson. Classic ill-considered Stories. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.