Abstract: In the story, a family is going on vacation. The grandmother wants to go to eastern Tennessee to see people she knows there, but her son wants to go to Florida. The grandmother says they shouldn't go to Florida though because 'The Misfit' has escaped from prison and is loose in Florida. They go to Florida anyways. The grandmother makes sure that she is dressed nicely like a lady, so that if they get in a car accident people will know she is a lady. They stop along the way and talk to an owner of a filing station. He says how he let some men get gas on credit, and they probably stole it from him. The grandmother then says he did it because he is a good man. On the way, the grandmother remembers an old plantation that she used to go. She wants to see it, so she says how there is a secret passage in it that the family hid silver in. The two grandchildren then really want to go, so their dad, Bailey, finally gives in. They then are traveling on a gravel road. The grandmother then realized that the house she was thinking of may have been in Tennessee. The moment she thinks that she knocks over a valise which then caused the newspaper over the basket containing the cat to move. The cat then escaped and jumped onto Bailey. They then rolled two times. When they got out of the car, they saw that a car was coming. The car had three men it. Grandmother recognized one of the men as 'The Misfit'. The grandmother then asks him if he would shoot a lady or not. He said he wouldn't. She then keeps telling him that he is from a good family. She also tells him that he should pray. His men then take Bailey and his son into the forest and shoots them. They come out and give 'The Misfit' Bailey's shirt. They then take Bailey's wife, their daughter, and their baby into the forest and shoots them. The grandmother then talks to him and says how he is one of her children and touches him on the shoulder. 'The Misfit' springs back and shoots the grandmother three times.
Response: The grandmother seems kind of selfish. She doesn't really seem to care when they take her family into the forest to shoot them. She doesn't say no. She just lets them go. She also was probably the only reason they got killed. She wanted to see the plantation, and then she brought the cat which caused the accident. She was also the one that said she knew the man was 'The Misfit'. Why did she touch him at the end? Did she do it to try to save herself? I don't really think that she thought he was her son. I think that she thought that maybe if she said that and tried to touch him, then he would feel bad for her and not kill her. She also said you wouldn't shoot a lady. She didn't say you wouldn't shoot someone. She only said lady. She wasn't trying to save the rest of her family. She was just trying to save herself because she said how she was a lady, and she also looked like a lady. Why did the Misfit say that she would have been a good woman if there was someone there to shoot her everyday? Did he mean that someone should have been there to shoot her up and not always let her be so demanding and selfish? The Misfit also had some issues. He killed his father, but he didn't remember it. I think he killed his father because he was angry at him because his father always said how he was different from his siblings and questioned things. He just blocked it from his mind. He also was mad because he felt like he was in jail longer than he needed to be. He also seemed angry at Jesus for coming back from the dead. He said that Jesus threw everything off balance. The Misfit seemed confused with his beliefs which could be a reason why he killed people. He didn't understand why Jesus would raise people from the dead. He then thought that Jesus didn't really do what he said, so he felt like he should enjoy his life. The way he found enjoyment was by killing people and burning things down.
Yes, I would say he had some issues. :)
ReplyDelete