Explain the irony in Flannery O'Connnor's short story, "Good Country People".?
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Well, start with considering Joy's name--not very fitting, is it? Also consider Manley's treatment of her artificial leg. Think about who are the good people? The country people?
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This is one of those stories where they really aren't saying what they are actually talking about.\nThe couple in the story is discussing her being pregnant and what to do about it - abortion - which would have been pretty scandalous at the time that it was written so Hemingway has them discuss it without "saying it".\n\nKnowing thats what they are discussing, does that help you get what happens?
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Very very tolerant and kind. I have heard this story before but I can't remember where. I believe it was back in school. Not all people need their "good deeds" to be rewarded. Some are kind, just for the sake of being kind.\n\nBut there was something else to this. A deeper lesson or meaning. I'm sorry to say that I can't remember what it was.
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According to http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=1252, themes are:\n\n"Themes\n\nThe theme of this poem is that a respectful distance between neighbours is the recipe for harmonious relationships:\n‘Good fences make good neighbors’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is a farmer’s pride in the wisdom passed down to him by his father:\n‘He will not go behind his father's saying’.\n \nThe poet portrays an unusual and dour country character:\n‘like an old-stone savage armed he moves in darkness’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is co-operation between neighbours:\n‘I let my neighbour know beyond the hill’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is that country people need their own space:\n‘We keep the wall between us as we go’.\n\nThe poet explores the futility of a country custom:\n‘Oh, just another kind of outdoor game’.\n\nThe poet suggests there are mysterious forces at work in nature:\n‘Something there is that doesn't love a wall,\nThat wants it down’.\n\nThe poet shows the different types of agriculture in his locality:\n‘He is all pine and I am apple orchard’.\n\nThe theme is the way some people keep to themselves, no matter what:\n‘He moves in darkness as it seems to me’.\n\nThe theme is the mental struggle between two neighbours who appear to co-operate on a physical task while they are very different in outlook:\n‘There were it is we do not need the wall’."
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apparently, you're not a fan of irony.\nit's like long is shorter than short.
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The meaning is that the son is always very much like their parents.\nAs an example,the sentence below implies that both father and daughter are on the tipsy  side of life.\n\nLooks like the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, as Bush's daughter is cited for alcohol possession.
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That she prefers the country lifestyle rather than city lifestlye. Some people just love the coutry and for others its just a fancy name for being a redneck.
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One only needs to read "Animal Farm" (by George Orwell). On the surface it appears to be just another fairy tale with animals, but it's actually an allegory about the Communist Revolution. The various characters in the book represent real historical figures or organisational entities.
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Better an open enemy than a false friend\nA good archer is not known by his arrows, but his aim.\nAgree, for the law is costly\nBetter to be born lucky than rich\nBeauty is but skin deep\nBlessings are not valued until they are gone\nBooks and friends should be few and good\nCurses are like chickens, they come home to roost\nA drowning man will clutch at a straw
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hm..\nthis poem sounds pretty straightforward, but yes i think there are deeper meanings.\n\nThe impact that parents can have on their children is heavily emphasized -- The speaker feels this strong need to be cared for and held by her mother. In turn, she expresses some inherent dependence on parental figures, especially by her last thoughts (which we are supposed to believe are her last thoughts, although it could actually just be due to her panicked state of mind). \n\nAnother more overarching message I see in this poem is that everyone's actions affect everyone else in some way. This girl is losing her life at the expense of another's senseless enjoyment.  In the girl's case, her father's advice influenced herself so that she would make the "healthy choice." It's implied that the drunk guy may have been influenced to do the same (not drink and drive)-- had his parents told him or even so, had he listened. In the end, it's clear that his choice affected her own life by taking it away.
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The implication of the author's work is no fault of the author's.  It's the fault of stupidity.  I'll bet that 90% of the book's protestors have never even READ the book.  Normally book burners don't.  Illiterate bastards with tunnel vision in my opinion.  \n\nOh, yes I REALIZE it is fiction, because I didn't by it from the HISTORY section of B&N!  Get a compass people!
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Flannery O'Connor, Writer \n\nBorn: 25 March 1925 \nBirthplace: Savannah, Georgia \nDied: 3 August 1964 (complications from lupus) \nBest Known As: Southern author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" \nName at birth: Mary Flannery O'Connor\n\nFlannery O'Connor's stories are characterized by misfits and fanatics from the American South, usually struggling with questions of violence and spiritual faith. Though she wrote two novels, O'Connor is most remembered for her short stories, the most famous being "A Good Man is Hard To Find" (1953) and "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1961). She died from lupus when she was 39 years old. A posthumous collection, The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, won the National Book Award in 1972.\n\nO'Connor's novels: Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960).
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It's from an old Nursery Rhyme\n\nLittle Jack Horner\nSat in a corner\nEating his Christmas pie\nHe put in his thumb\nAnd pulled out a plum\nAnd said" What a good boy am I!"\n\nNow, having said that I couldn't begin to tell you if it has any underlying meaning!\n\nHere's a link to a theory on the "back story"\nhttp://www.rooneydesign.com/JackHorner.html\n\nAnd here's yet another link:\n\nhttp://www.rhymes.org.uk/little_jack_horner.htm\n\nAnd finally dear old wikipedia has a bunch of alternative rhymes that are quite amusing:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Jack_Horner
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Probably from the phrase "My heart bleeds for  you."  In other words, "I'm totally sympathetic to your plight."  It was applied to liberals by conservatives who have no sympathy for those less fortunate than themselves.  They firmly believe that a person who was raised by a drug-addicted mother and had to quit school to support himself has exactly the same chance in life as a person raised by a loving upper-class family and therefore deserves no help from government agencies.  Liberals, however, believe that if government assistance can raise a person's chances to make a good life for himself and be a productive member of society, then let's help out.
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Of course the writer understands that her statement is an exaggeration and a blanket statement.Its meant to be understood in that light.What it is specifically,is an indictment of American arrogance and even more so the American mentality that our way is the only way.Your either with us or against us thinking.Read your tocqueville,our need to conform,to see that all around us conform as well.We glorify in the means,and not the ends of a good purpose.Were not cognizent of the existence of multiple paths to reach said good purpose,in other words tremendously narrow minded,judgemental about others ways and behaviours that dont coincide with our way of looking at things.Were trememdously materialistic to the point that we have become a nation of robotic convenience oriented worker consumers,as the process has meant for it to be.Were apathetic when it comes to our politics,our libertys.We leave these things to our policy makers,who believe me know what their best interest are.And they on the other hand know what their purpose is and believe the means always justify the ends.want a few more things, how about our education level compared to that of europe, (on the whole)how about this lovely trend of political correctness weve engendered throughout the world (to some degree)and american sensibilities that seem almost effemine,oh theyre heavy smokers ,oh my god,be a man.oh and as far as class goes partner ill bet that little lady has more class and probably more guts than a lot of people,who are afraid to disagree with the status quo.
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It's a sonnet by William Wordsworth...The title is generally accepted as being\n\nSonnet: The world is too much with us
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I think it's more sardonic than ironic. Most of the things she talks about in the song do not meet the textbook definition of irony, just bad luck.\n\nA good example of irony is:Seymour Cray, supercomputer architect, died of head and neck injuries suffered in a traffic collision. His vehicle — a Jeep Cherokee — was designed using a Cray supercomputer.\n\nIn order for something to be ironic, a "twist of fate" is required, like the following "urban legend" example from darwinawards.com:\n\nOn March 23,1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to that effect, indicating his despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window which killed him instantly.\n\nNeither the shooter nor the descender was aware that a safety net had been installed just below at the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.\n\n"Ordinarily," Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide."\n\nThat Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands. The room on the ninth floor, whence the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Mr. Opus.\n\nWhen one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife were both adamant. They both said they thought the shotgun was unloaded. Thed old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.\n\nThe continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.\n\nNow comes the exquisite twist. Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.\n\nThat's irony at it's finest. \n\nSome more good examples at my link: