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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
No one is good
I first read A Good Man is Hard to Find in high school, and although I thought it to be quite strange and disturbing, I loved it. Not necessacerily because it was particularly entertaining, (although it was) but because I saw something. I wasn't quite sure what that something was at first, but it was there nonetheless. This was a rare occurrence for me prehonors. I always loved to read, but usually I was content with the face value of the story and maybe the obvious meanings. Partially because of this story, literature in general began to really make sense to me. I cant explain it, and I can't put it into words, but it's clicked. The conclusions I came to then about this story have not changed, and most of them were discussed yesterday in class.
One thing that I dont believe was mentioned in class and actually just hit me is the central idea of a good man being hard to find. In Mark 10:18, Jesus says that no one is good except God alone. Every character in the story, unless I'm mistaken, (except maybe the baby) has some type of noticeable flaw. A good man is hard to find, because there are no good men. This, to me makes the dialog between the grandmother and the misfit regarding Jesus stand out a lot more. And whether or not o'connor actually intended to say this, I think that a good man is so hard to find because there is so little effort put forth in seeking the only one who is good.
Ps. Commented on Autumn's "Hell is... Not other people"
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I am glad that I am not the only person who thought about this. No man on earth is truly good. Every man has sinned at least once in his life before death. God is the only man who has never truly sinned and it will remain that way forever. Even though we have all sinned, it does not mean that we cannot strive to be the best that we can possibly be.
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