Essay On A Good Man Is Hard To Kill

Most of the times, we make decisions under complicated situations and different elements around us, such as feelings and values given to us through society and the place we grow up. The situations which evolve around people, sometimes lead individuals to make a decision they never thought they would ever do: a killing, hurting many people, euthanasia, abortion, or a suicide just to protect themselves and their beloved ones, to hold their morality and values, or to make someone love them. Killing is an immoral and illegal action, right? There is no way, a conscious human who thinks clearly and has feelings which actually define the humanity, would commit a crime. This is what morality shows us, isn’t it? These situations can be described in

The sense of right and wrong, the so called morality, which perhaps developed from social consistency, sometimes is not reasonable ("The Moral Brain", para.1). With all this in mind, justifications, influences, and motivations for a killing are recognized and compared in the stories, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, “Killings” by Andre Dubus, and “A Vendetta” by Guy de Maupassant.

To begin with, let’s consider what these stories are about. The short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” begins with the description of the Bailey’s family’s choice for vacations in Florida and the Grandma’s eagerness to change their mind for the chosen place. Her effort by showing them an article in newspaper for an escaped person, Misfit who killed some people and hypothetical was in Florida, did not work. During the journey while passing through a plantation grandma thought she recognized that place and with her intrigue words she convinced them to go and visit the place. Later on, when she remembered that she was confused and the house was in Tennessee, the cat jumped and scared Bailey. They had an accident. Then, a car stopped. They thought, those