Journals - Article Example

Journal Entry: A Good Man is Hard to Find The “A Good Man is Hard to Find” tells the story of a grandmother who convinces her son, Bailey, to change the planned tour to Florida and instead visit Tennessee. The Grandmother does not want to go to Florida and uses all means to win a tour to Tennessee. However, in the course of the journey the family first involved in an accident, before a group of three ruthless killers who shoot everybody to death abducts them. The Misfit, as grandmother refers to the killer, portrays the type of a man who has no respect for human life. The misfit says, “I found the crime don’t matter. You…,kill a man or take a tire off his car” (pg.9). The misfit then orders his two accomplices to take the family members and kill them one by one. This act shows how heartless a man can be. Killing a fellow human being in cold blood indicates how hard it is indeed hard to get a good man.
Journal Entry: Equal in Paris (1955)
Equal in Paris is a narrative that tells of an American who had been in Paris and was arrested for receiving stolen goods. The narrator spends much time in the prison rooms without trial and keeps on waiting for trial. He spends in prison with inmates among them a fellow American. The prisoner says that, “One had, in short, to come into contact with an alien culture in order to understand that a culture was not a community basket-weaving project, nor yet an act of God” (pg103). The prisoner now feels just equal to the inmates as they are treated the same way. Leaving America, he goes to become equal to other prisoners in Paris.
Works Cited
"A Good Man is Hard to Find." N.p., 14 Jan. 2013. Web. 16 Mar. 2014. .
Baldwin, J. "Equity in Paris." Collected Essays. New York: The Library of America, 1998. 101-115. Print. Read More