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A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Explore the influence, elements, and characters in Flannery O'Connor's southern stories, analyzing plot, characterization, setting, point of view, and style. Uncover themes, tone, and symbolism in her works.

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find

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  1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find

  2. Author : Flannery O’ Connor • Birth Place: Savannah, Georgia • Roman Catholic • Georgia State College for Women • - English & Sociology • University of Iowa • - Writer’s Workshop

  3. Author Continued • Influneces - Roman Catholic Background - Bible Belt South - Nathaniel Hawthorne • About Her Stories - Setting of her stories are in the South - Characters in her stories are always bratty children, malcontents, incompetents, pious frauds, racists, and bewildered intellectuals

  4. Elements of Fiction

  5. Plot • Definition: Refers to the series of events that give a story its meaning and effect. In most stories, these events arise out of conflict experienced by the main character. - Conflict:The basic tension, predicament, or challenge that propels a story's plot - Climax: The plot's most dramatic and revealing moment, usually the turning point of the story

  6. Characterization • Definition: The process by which an author presents and develops a fictional character. • Characters: Grandmother, Bailey, Wife & baby, June Star, John Welsley, Misfit and his friends Hiram and Bobby Lee • Protagonist: A story’s main character. - Grandmother • Antagonist: The character or force in conflict with the protagonist - Misfit

  7. Round & Flat Characters • Round character: A complex, fully developed character, often prone to change - Grandmother • Flat character: A one-dimensional character, typically not central to the story - Misfit

  8. Setting • Definition: Is the story’s time and place. - Rural Georgia • Mood: The underlying feeling or atmosphere produced by a story - Excitement - Fear

  9. Point of View • Definition: refers to the source and scope of the narrative voice. • Third-person omniscient, the narrative voice can render information from anywhere, including the thoughts and feelings of any of the characters.

  10. Style & Tone • Style: refers to the language conventions used to construct the story. A fiction writer can manipulate diction, sentence structure, phrasing, dialogue, and other aspects of language to create style. - Southern Language • Tone: Refers to the attitude that the story creates toward its subject matter. - Direct and Comic

  11. Theme • Defintion: Is the meaning or concept we are left with after reading a piece of fiction. - Respect

  12. Symbolism • Defintion: The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships. - Kids - Wrong Turn

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