This weeks reading selections were great, I loved Flannery O'Connor. At first, I wrote her off as weird because of the dark humor. I realized though that there was so much more to her writings though, A Good Man is Hard to Find was so good. The grandmother believes that she has it all right, she is a good person and there is real lack of people like her in the world. Juxtaposed is The Misfit, who understands his own depravity but has no idea about redemption or whether or not Christ did what He said He did. I loved this stories ending because it gave grace or the shadow of it to The Misfit. Something changes when the grandmother touches him, there is a noticeable shift from his desire for "meanness" and the subsequent shift to his belief that this no longer brings him pleasure.

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