I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do for my first essay. I have re read all of my different journal entries concerning all of the stories we have read thus far and have decided on certain issues I want to focus on.
There are a lot of important stories that we have read thus far but I think I want to focus on the story “A Good man is hard to find”. There are a lot of different themes in this story that I really enjoyed when I was reading it. The overall outcome of the story is also one that I really enjoyed.
One of the first themes I really liked was how the writer made the villain not exactly a villain. This style of writing is a very interesting style. I find that it works almost every time a writer uses it. He made the villain seem superior in motive to that of the main character and he made the main character just not that identifiable with. I thought this worked really well.
One other theme is the use of the epiphany in this story. There are many different uses of this in this particular story. The main villain has one and the main character has one. They are at really well done places too. The two epiphanies occur at the exact same time. I really enjoyed that about this story.
I am really excited for this essay and I think that I have chosen a proper essay to write an essay about.
3 comments:
I think you've identified a very interesting focus here John. You might say the misfit is the "anti-hero." Don't we see this in a lot of films these days? I'm thinking of films where we sympathize with the criminal. Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, and The Sopranos come to mind. Does this focus on the antagonist suggest some cultural shift? Do we want to see the humanity in even the worst offenders?
I liked that story too, i think for my essay im going to focus on Where are you going, where have you been. I liked all the themes in that one and there were a lot so i would have a lot to talk about.
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