6) Writing About A Good Man is Hard To Find [Categories: Life Choice, Course Reading, Re-Genre]: Please complete the following:
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In this blog post I will compose three found poems using the genre of found poetry.Before each poem I will provide a theme and an explination from the story, of the theme. Re-Genre Analysis: Theme : A Good Man Is Hard To Find Scene : in this scene the grandmother is telling the kids a story about a good man that she encountered in the past ; in the other scene the family has just reaches a diner and the grandmother is having a conversation with the owner about how a good man is hard to find. These days, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Once when she was a maiden lady she had been courted by a Mr. Edgar Atkins Teagarden He was a very good-looking man and a gentleman He brought her a watermelon every Saturday afternoon with his initials cut in it, E. A. T She would have done well to marry Mr. Teagarden He was a gentleman and had bought Coca-Cola stock when it first came out A Good Man Is Hard To Find "Every- thing is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more." Europe was entirely to blame for the way things were now Theme: Judging someone Scene: In the first scene the grandmother is talking about the misfit in an negative way , in the next scene when she actually meets his she gets the feeling that he isn't a bad person and tries to convince him to see it also this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it Youre the misfit ! I know you're a good man. You don't look a bit like you have com- mon blood. I know you must come from nice people!" "God never made a finer woman than my mother and my daddy's heart was pure gold, "you shouldn't call yourself The Misfit because I know you're a good man at heart. I can just look at you and tell "Nome, I ain't a good man, "but I ain't the worst in the world neither. Theme : Pray Scene: in this scene the grandmother is talking to the misfit and hoping that by using religion and faith he will be able to realize that he's not a misfit. "I been most everything. Been in the arm service, both land and sea, at home and abroad, been twict married, been an undertaker, been with the railroads, plowed Mother Earth, been in a tornado, seen a man burnt alive oncet, pray,pray,praypray I never was a bad boy that I remember of, but somewheres along the line I done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiary. I was buried alive That's when you should have started to pray It was a head-doctor at the penitentiary said what I had done was kill my daddy but I known that for a lie If you would pray, Jesus would help you
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