joanne’s blog

1. Well of course my opinion on the story changed as I read on! That family is crazy! It first seemed like they were just a normal family and almost literally just good country people then you suddenly find out theres a 15 year old pregnant girl and a girl with fake legs. The fake legged girl got her leg taken away as a joke towards the end and thats where I was kind of saying to myself wow I wonder how the author really thought of the storyline for his writing.

2. Initially I felt angry because of that stupid boy. Honestly who would do that to someone. She was dependent on those legs and the boy was really creepy talking about how he stole a woman’s eye!

3. Their names were literal to their personalities in the story. They both had a good relationship with each other and Mrs. Hopewell would give hope to Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Freeman’s name matched her because she didn’t depend on other people and kind of did things herself. The name change suggests that the Joy girl was actually not so happy.

4. They seem to gossip about a lot of people and to me personally almost seem like they think they know more than they actually do about the lives of people. They seem to compare themselves to everyone to make themselves sound better.

5. She learns that she has many flaws and that there are dangerous people in the world that she needs to watch out for in case something like this happens again.

6. O’Connor seems to admire Mrs. Hopewell because she makes her seem like someone who can provide hope to others and make them feel better about themselves. He seems to make fun of Hulga by making her go through such bad situations and giving her a bad situation to start off with and a terribly unhappy personality.

7. The religous value seem to go along more of a conservative belief and to not judge a book by its cover, not to sound cliche hehe.

8. This one is a little weird but in Good Country People the author uses the misfortunes and oddities of actual people to make it funny while in the other story she just uses one person to make humor throughout the story.

9. Well the use of satire kind of helps to move a character along and help them change as a person as the story progresses making the person seem more alive. It’s ok to use satire on a topic that won’t offend many people and isn’t outright saying something terrible about a specific problem.