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P4.docx“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
1.In her recent book The Origin of Others, Nobel prize-winning American author Toni Morrison claims, “Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination” (91). Explore how one of the stories works that way for you as a reader—ground your impressions with particular passages from the story and how they engage you in some significant identification with the Other (a character who seems like a stranger or foreigner to you, someone who is markedly different whether in race, class, moral position, etc.). OR explore how a character in one of the stories experiences this sort of encounter and identification with the Other (a stranger, someone different from him/herself, someone marked as different) and how it affects him or her in the story.
My answer：
A Good Man is Hard to Find allows a reader to encounter the Misfit. It is a person who went through a complicated experience and conducted many criminal activities. However, when the protagonists meet his group, the family is in a dire situation when they are vulnerable and require help. Their plants have been stretched, and it seems that nothing could go worse. At that very moment, the Misfit captures them and kills children, the father, the mother, and the grandmother, which seems to be the most unexpected and brutal finale to the story. It could be described as the opportunity to become the other and encounter a complicated situation that does not occur frequently.
