Story of an Hour

After reading the story A Good Man is Hard to Find I have mixed emotions on whether the family had it coming to them for being killed or if I should feel sorry for them. The whole family seems to disrespect the grandmother and she in returns seems to manipulate them. When they run into “The Misfit” an escaped murder she tries to convince him that he is a good man as his friends are killing her family. She tires to save her self-saying you wouldn’t shoot a lady and doesn’t try to safe her family.   What grandmother wouldn’t try to save her son or grandchildren?   At the end when the misfit himself shoots the grandmother three times made me believe he didn’t believe he could ever be a good man like she was implying,   he saw right through her manipulative ways just trying to save herself.

The lesson by Toni Cade Bambara tells a tale of the difference between the wealthy and the poor. In the beginning of the story the young girl and her friends just want to hang out and have fun but Miss Moore has another idea for them.   Miss Moore is trying to teach the children a lesson on what kind of society they live in.   Where the rich will let there poor go hungry just to have nice things.   When the children get to the toy store they cant believe how much some of the toys can cost.   One of the children even tell Miss Moore at the end of the trip that she didn’t believe all of them put together eat as much as one of the toys cost.   This is was a great example of how money gets wasted on unnecessary items when it could go to helping the people that really need it.   Also it is a stab at the government when one of the children turn to Miss Moore and tell her they believe that there should be a chance for equal opportunity which in 1972 there wasn’t. ...