In at least one hundred words, explain how Flannery O’Connor uses irony to create dark humor in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.” Cite specific textual evidence to support your response.

In her book, 'A good man is hard to find', Flannery  O'Connor works with different linguistic tools to give the story a sense of dark humor. One of these tools, being the use of irony.

The first appearance of this technique is at the beginning of the book, when O'Connor explains the reason behind her grandmother getting dressed for a car ride. "In case of an accident, anyone seeing the dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady."

The writer then keeps on building the story line around the judgment that the grandmother holds up to everyone she meets. After the car crash and the Misfit makes his appearance, O'Connor writes: ""Listen," the grandmother almost screamed, "I know you are a good man, you dont look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people!.""

The irony in this is that the grandmother believes that she can properly asses people based on how they look or act, at first encounter, when in reality the Misfit is a sociopath that is measuring all of his actions to get what he desires.

Flannery O'Connor utilizes irony in 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find' to create dark humor by contrasting characters' actions with societal norms and their own professed beliefs. The mistaken moral superiority of the grandmother and the philosophical yet ruthless Misfit contribute to the story's hauntingly humorous critique of superficial morality.

Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find is renowned for its blend of Southern Gothic settings and dark humor. O'Connor skillfully uses irony to create moments of dark humor amidst the story's violent and bleak circumstances.

For instance, the grandmother, who claims to value goodness, mistakenly leads her family to their demise through her selfish acts. The Misfit, a convicted killer, converses philosophically about morality and Jesus just before he callously murders the family.

This contrast between his reflective thoughts and ruthless actions illustrates O'Connor's use of situational irony, where the characters' circumstances are starkly different from what readers might expect from their professed beliefs or societal norms.

Specifically, the grandmother's insistence on her moral superiority and her final pleas for mercy showcase O'Connor's ability to create depth and humor in her characters, even in the face of danger.

The story's climax, filled with unexpected revelations and the final darkly comic exchange between the grandmother and The Misfit, underscores the narrative's preoccupation with the elusive nature of goodness, accentuated by the grandmother's final misguided assertion that The Misfit is a 'good man' just before her fatal encounter.

These elements of irony not only contribute to the story's dark humor but also critique the superficial moral assumptions of the characters, highlighting a pervasive theme in O'Connor's work: the complexity of human nature and the flawed understanding of what constitutes true goodness.

Which are features of heroic couplets select all that apply

Common Sense
Thomas Paine, 1776

The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, 1
who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them 2
happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and 3
grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is 4
firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. 5
My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. Not all the 6
treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive 7
war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my 8
property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all 9
cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? 10

What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my 11
countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army 12
of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just 13
cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other. 14

Question:

In your own words, discuss Thomas Paine's rationale for when it is appropriate and just to go to war, and when it isn't inappropriate and unjust to go to war. What metaphors does Paine use to support or illustrate his position? Give details from the text to support your answer.

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Select the correct text in the passage.
Which sentence in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life?
"But if that is so," he said to himself, "and I am leaving this life with the consciousness that I have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then?"

He lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. In the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. In them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. This consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. He groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. And he hated them on that account.

He was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. He drove everybody away and tossed from side to side.

His wife came to him and said:

"Jean, my dear, do this for me. It can't do any harm and often helps. Healthy people often do it."

He opened his eyes wide.

"What? Take communion? Why? It's unnecessary! However..."

She began to cry.

"Yes, do, my dear. I'll send for our priest. He is such a nice man."

"All right. Very well," he muttered.

When the priest came and heard his confession, Ivan Ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. He again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. He received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.

Which statement from “John Redding Goes to Sea” best supports the idea that the author, Zora Neale Hurston, was an independent woman who longed to escape her small hometown?

"Pa, when ah gets as big as you Ah'm goin' farther than them ships. Ah'm goin' to where the sky touches the ground."

"Well, son, when Ah wuz a boy Ah said Ah wuz goin' too, but heah Ah am. Ah hopes you have bettah luck than me."

"Well, well, doan cry. Ah thought youse uh grown up man. Men doan cry lak babies. You mustn't take it too hard 'bout yo' ships. You gotta git uster things gittin' tied up . . .”

Alfred Redding's brown face grew wistful for a moment, and the child noticing it, asked quickly: "Do weeds tangle up folks too, pa?"

What does Mr. Kirn mean when he says that the invasion of privacy has been “democratized”?

Read the sentence below, and use context clues to determine the meaning of the word plethora. After the successful concert, the band was flooded with a plethora of email and did not have the time to respond to all of them. What is most likely the definition of the word plethora? (5 points) A type of email A popular band A great number Not many

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Montego signed up to take part in the Science Olympiad however he didn't realize that he would actually have to attend practices. Read the sentence and determine which of the answers correctly punctuates the underlined portion of the sentence. A) Olympiad, however B) Olympiad; however, C) Olympiad, however, D) Olympiad: however,

Read the sentence.

During the scenic tour of the national park, the cascading waterfall was photographed repeatedly.

This sentence is in the

active voice.
passive voice.
future tense.
present tense.

A narrative: _____.
tells a story
proves a point
must be told from first-person POV
does not require a narrator
uses description

How is the underlined word used in the sentence?

She jumped off the board into the cool water.


A.
direct address

B.
object of a preposition

C.
direct object

D.
subject

WHAT IS A THEME AND EXPLAIN IT TO ME IN YOUR OWN WORDS NOT A DEFINITION FROM GOOGLE WILL MAKE BRAINLIEST!!!

Which type of writing is used to convince someone of something

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How is D'Artagnan saved from being arrested by the Cardinal?
a.
D'Artagan saves himself by presenting a letter of protection that he took from Milady
c.
M. de Treville intervenes on his behalf
b.
Aramis says he is entering a monastery and D'Artagnan must take his place in the musketeers
d.
D'Artagnan jumps out the window and escapes to England

reread lines 10-11. what attitude does the speaker express toward the young men? Poem I Hear America Singing, by Walt Whitman.

How is the underlined word used in the sentence?

Do you think it will rain today, Grandpa?


A.
subject complement

B.
object of a preposition

C.
direct address

D.
direct object

A young man is walking down the street, quite casually, with an empty mind and no set purpose; he comes to a crossing, and for no reason that he could tell he takes the right hand turn instead of the left; and so it happens that he encounters a blue-eyed girl, who sets his heart to beating. He meets the girl, marries her--and she became your mother. But now, suppose the young man had taken the left hand turn instead of the right, and had never met the blue-eyed girl; where would you be now, and what would have become of those qualities of mind which you consider of importance to the world, and those grave affairs of business to which your time is devoted?

2 Something like that it was which befell Peter Gudge. Peter was walking down the street one afternoon, when a woman approached and held out to him a printed leaflet. "Read this, please," she said. And Peter, who was hungry, and at odds with the world, answered gruffly: "I got no money." He thought it was an advertising dodger, and he said: "I can't buy nothin'."

3 "It isn't anything for sale," answered the woman. "It's a message."

4 "Religion?" said Peter. "I just got kicked out of a church."

5 "No, not a church," said the woman. "It's something different; put it in your pocket."

6 "Read it some time when you've nothing else to do." And so Peter, just to get rid of her, took the leaflet and thrust it into his pocket, and went on, and in a minute or two had forgotten all about it.

7 Peter was thinking that this was a heck of a life. Who could have foreseen that just because he had stolen one miserable fried doughnut, he would lose his easy job and his chance of rising in the world? Peter's whole being was concentrated on the effort to rise in the world; to get success, which means money, which means ease and pleasure.

8 But who could have foreseen that Mrs. Smithers would have kept count of those fried doughnuts every time anybody passed thru her pantry? And it was only that one ridiculous circumstance which had brought Peter to his present misery. But for that he might have had his lunch of bread and dried herring and weak tea in the home of the shoe-maker's wife, and might have still been busy with his job of stirring up dissension in the First Apostolic Church.

9 Always it had been like that, thru Peter's twenty years of life. Time after time he would get his feeble clutch fixed upon the ladder of prosperity, and then something would happen--some wretched thing like the stealing of a fried doughnut--to pry him loose and tumble him down again into the pit of misery.

10 So Peter walked along, with his belt drawn tight, and his restless blue eyes wandering here and there, looking for a place to get a meal. There were jobs to be had, but they were hard jobs, and Peter wanted an easy one. There are people in this world who live by their muscles, and others who live by their wits; Peter belonged to the latter class; and had missed many a meal rather than descend in the social scale.

11 Peter looked into the faces of everyone he passed, searching for a possible opening. Some returned his glance, but never for more than a second, for they saw an insignificant looking man, undersized, undernourished, and with one shoulder higher than the other, a weak chin and mouth, crooked teeth, and a brown moustache too feeble to hold itself up at the corners. Peters' straw hat had many straws missing, his second-hand brown suit was become third-hand, and his shoes were turning over at the sides. In a city where everybody was "hustling," everybody, as they phrased it, "on the make," why should anyone take a second glance at Peter Gudge? Why should anyone care about the restless soul hidden inside him, or dream that Peter was, in his own obscure way, a sort of genius? No one did care; no one did dream.

12 It was about two o'clock of an afternoon in July, and the sun beat down upon the streets of American City. There were crowds upon the streets, and Peter noticed that everywhere were flags and bunting. Once or twice he heard the strains of distant music, and wondered what was "up." Peter had not been reading the newspapers; all his attention bad been taken up by the quarrels of the Smithers faction and the Lunk faction in the First Apostolic Church, otherwise known as the Holy Rollers, and great events that had been happening in the world outside were of no concern to him. Peter knew vaguely that on the other side of the world half a dozen mighty nations were locked together in a grip of death; the whole earth was shaken with their struggles, and Peter had felt a bit of the trembling now and then. But Peter did not know that his own country had anything to do with this European quarrel, and did not know that certain great interests thruout the country had set themselves to rouse the public to action.

The Constitution of the United States did not originally define who had the right to vote. That determination was left up to the states, and in the majority of states at that time, only white male property owners had the right to vote. Women, people of color, and white males who did not own property had no say-so in the election of government officials. Not all voting rules were the same throughout the states, however, so this made for an interesting electorate. For example, in New Jersey, a white woman could vote if she owned property, and in some northern states, free men of color could vote. Luckily, the framers of the Constitution had the foresight to build into it a means to rectify unjust situations by allowing for the addition of amendments, or additions, to the Constitution. Through amendments, women and free people of color were eventually guaranteed the right to vote.

How does the author use rhetoric to advance her purpose in Paragraph 2?

The author creates a vivid image by using sensory details to describe the people who formerly could not vote.

The author gains credibility by demonstrating that her stance on voter participation is grounded in research.

The author directly addresses the reader by citing a document that is widely known.

The author uses an allusion by recalling the struggles of the founding fathers of the United States.

Why does Hindley invite Heathcliff to stay at Wuthering Heights when he returns after years away?

A. Hindley feels pity for Heathcliff.
B. Hindley wants to reconcile with his childhood friend.
C. Hindley needs someone to tutor Hareton.
D. Hindley can tell Heathcliff now has money.

Identify the italicized word or phrase.
The president is about to "speak".
participle
infinitive
verb phrase

which one best completes the sentence has a pronoun used mr.peters Between Molly and

Which of these is correct? a. The woman that gave this to me was very helpful. c. The woman who gave this to me was very helpful. b. The woman whom gave this to me was very helpful. d. The woman which gave this to me was very helpful.

fact or opinion yesterday my math test was incredibly easy

Which excerpt from Robin Hood shows why Robin has a conflict with the foresters?
A. It was at the dawn of day in the merry Maytime, when hedgerows are green and flowers bedeck the meadows
B. Robin whistled as he trudged along, thinking of Maid Marian and her bright eyes,
C. he came suddenly upon some foresters seated beneath a great oak tree.
D. Then Robin grew angry, for no stripling likes to be taunted with his green years.

Read this sentence carefully.The autocratic leader handed out orders left and right What kind of context clue would you use to understand the meaning of autocratic?


A. clues from another sentence

B. a clue provided by contrast with a single word

C. a clue offered by an example

D. clues from your experience or general information

what characteristic of the narrator in the night the bed fell ends up being a key element in the story?
A. He is a deep sleeper who is slow to be awakened.
B. He is a funny boy who is always making a joke.
C. He is a bit strange, like his family members.
D. He is sympathetic and nice toward his family.

The hazards of oil drilling were demonstrated when an oil rig in the North Sea exploded.

This sentence is _____.

a) simple
b) compound
c) complex
d) compound-complex

Using Lincoln’s “A House Divided” speech, Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” poem, and Jane Addams’s “Influence of Lincoln” memoir chapter, you are going to write an expository essay of at least 750 words to answer the question: “What American ideal(s) does Abraham Lincoln embody?” To get started, think about our discussion of Lincoln’s speech and reread “O Captain! My Captain!” and “Influence of Lincoln.” Identify the American ideals and Lincoln’s embodiment of them.

Just as Whit Diffie predicted in the early 1970s, we are now entering the Information Age, a postindustrial era in which information is the most valuable commodity. The exchange of digital information has become an integral part of our society. Already tens of millions of e-mails are sent each day, and electronic mail will soon become more popular than conventional mail. The Internet, still in its infancy, has provided the infrastructure for the digital marketplace, and e-commerce is thriving. Money is flowing through cyberspace, and it is estimated that every day half the world's Gross Domestic Product travels through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications network. In the future, democracies that favor referenda will begin to have on-line voting, and governments will use the Internet to help administer their countries, offering facilities such as on-line tax declarations.

–The Code Book,
Simon Singh

What kind of evidence is included in the passage? Check all that apply.

fact
statistic
quotation
example
opinion

Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.

Before the train leaves, the gangsters roam the Tapachula depot, eyeing which migrants are buying food and where they stash their cash afterward. They try to get friendly with the migrants, telling them they have already done the train ride. Maybe they can offer tips? Many of the gangsters wear white plastic rosaries around their necks so the migrants will be less suspicious. They ask, "Where are you from? Where are you going? Do you have any money?"

How does the narrative technique of characterization support the author’s purpose in this excerpt?

A. It helps create uneasiness.
B. It helps create trust.
C. It helps create hope.
D. It helps create calmness.

This force comprises all our best trained and out finest troops including scores of thousands of those who have already measured their quality against the Germans and found themselves at no disadvantage. We have under arms at the present time in this island over a million and a quarter men.

Which audience appeal does Churchill most clearly use?

A.Pathos
B.Kairos
C.Logos
D.Ethos