Compare/Contrast: "Good Man" with "Hills" Currently, a plethora of outstanding stories have been written. What makes a story, though? The answer is the elements that the author includes into his or her writing, such as symbolism and imagery. "Hills like White Elephants," written by Ernest Hemingway, and "A Good Man is Hard to Find," written by Flannery O'Connor, are just two examples of admirable work. Each writer incorporated plenty of elements to improve the story. Since the amount of elements is limited, these two writers exploited several of the same ones. Although the stories have numerous resemblances, they are also remarkably different. Various similarities arise in these two pieces of writing. In both, a main
Therefore, the continuation of details causes one to look for why and how the actions took place, which leads to the theme. Of course, the two authors did not write for the same purpose. Each writer constructed his or her story to display a message to the audience. In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor wrote for religious purposes. It is reasonably inferred that Red Sammy represents Satan, while The Misfit resembles Jesus from the fact that Red Sammy is displayed as untrustworthy and that the grandmother acquires salvation through the barrel of The Misfit's gun. O'Connor's description of the grandmother's dead body "who half sat and half lay in a puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child's and her face smiling up at the cloudless sky" helps show the reader her purpose; Through Christ one becomes pure and innocent like a young child. On the contrary, Ernest Hemingway has another objective in "Hills like White Elephants." Hemingway decided to teach a moral lesson through his writing, rather than a religious lesson. In this case, the symbolic materials, such as the hills or the bead curtain, and the symbolic characters aid the reader's understanding of the subtle theme. In other words, Hemingway relies on symbolism to carry the theme of either choosing to live selfishly and dealing with the results, or choosing a more difficult and selfless path and reveling in the rewards. Evidently, the stories possess loads of