A Good Man is Hard to Find

From only reading the title at first i assumed this story was going to be a typical love story. When i got to the third or fourth page i remembered i had read this story for my advanced comp class in high school, this is a recurring situation in this class. It is going to sound really weird but i really like this story, it grabs the readers attention, and keeps them guessing as to what is going to happen next. I found the underlying message the author was trying to portray was that no matter how bad some people are there are always still people out there who have hope for them. In this story the misfit is obvioulsy the bad guy, and the grandma was obviously the one who had the hope for him. The grandmother was still beggin for him to pray with her when they pulled the trigger on her and shot her dead.  I found the discussion in the beginning of the story about the misfit in the story to be a foreshadowing of what was to come. In this case the encounter with the misfit on the gravel road. The behavior of the mother really surprised me. I could not believe she went off into the woods without even so much as a word, even though she knew what was going to happen if she followed bobby lee and Hiram. This entire story was just crazy ironic. Grandmother really wanted to go to Tennesse to visit family so at the beginning of the story she threatened them with the run in of the misfit. Only for them to later acutally run into the mistfit. Another ironic moment was the fact that she was so insistent upon going to this house that she swore she knew was right down the road, but it turns out the house was a complete different state. Which wound them up in front of the misfit. The last bit of irony i had was the cat. The cat had to be hidden because no body wanted him on the trip. Grandma didn't want the cat to be along, but because she brought him they were encountered with the misfit, and everyone was murdered leaving the cat along forever.