Essays on Good Country People

As we enter the Digital Age, we are readily exposed to media’s idea of beauty. The media slowly implants its distorted view into our minds that we can only be beautiful if we have long legs, voluminous hair, and curves in all the right places….

Language is in itself what makes humans intelligent. The ability to articulate thoughts and ideas with words is what differentiates Homo sapiens from all other species on this planet. As literature has drastically evolved over many centuries, the subtle yet poignant art of using literary…

Response to Evil Due to the variance of regulations imposed by both fundamental and radical religious norms, people are unable to conform to a unanimous agreement of good and evil people. In this case person under a certain belief can find the ideals of someone…

While reading the story “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, I developed many opinions about the characters in the story. O’Connor very significantly names the characters to show their personality. The three main characters Joy (Hulga), Mrs. Hopewell Mrs. Freeman. Each of these characters has…

Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” exemplifies characters’ defects ironic to the title. Rather than highlighting goodness, O’Connor focuses on the bad traits the characters carry. An ideology of Christianity is that one must have a healthy mind, body, and soul, otherwise one may be lacking…