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Activity 1
Please read the 3-page article “Excerpt from ‘On Her Own Work’: The Element of Suspense in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.'”
Activity 2
Click this link to access “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” on the Commonlit website. I recommend that you complete the short answers for a better understanding of the text, but they will not be officially graded.
Alternate link to the story.
Used with permission of Artist Kim Rosen
Optional Activity
Although the sound is a little scratchy, that might just add to the authentic 1960s feeling of this reading of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by the author herself, Flannery O’Connor.
Activity 3
Click this link to access a fascinating literary critique from the BMCC library database Literature Resource Center, entitled “Things Darkly Buried: In Praise of ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.'” This article discusses the many “buried things” readers can unearth in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor.
Or PDF format:
Things_Darkly_Buried_In_Praise
Emily Kofsky
Used with permission of Artist Emily Kofsky
Activity 4
Please read the lecture “Where Is the Goodness?”
