Good+Country+People

Prereading Questions: 1. What are good country people and how are they characterized? 2. What is expected of good country people? 3. How are disabled people generally characterized? 4. What does the title suggest about the story? 5. Predict the outcome of the story.

Reading Questions: 1. How is Hulga ultimately characterized? 2. What is the conflict and who is it between? 3. What type of reasoning is developing the plot? 4. What does Hulga assume about good country people and how is she proved wrong?

Postreading Questions: 1. Why does Flannery O'Connor rely on Hulga's innocence to establish her purpose? 2. What does the conflict suggest about the theme? 3. How is foreshadowing used in refernce to Manly Pointer? 4. What devices does Flannery O'Connor employ to develop plot and why? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Character Analysis
 * Pupose: to understand the way the writer intends for characters to be view and interpreted by his audience.
 * Key Part: character traits.

Plot Analysis
 * Purpose: to understand the conflict between characters that will portray the overall theme
 * Key Part: conflict

Theme Analysis ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ FUN DISCUSSION! --> What would Hugla's dream job be? a professor in the study of nothing --> What would Hulga discuss in therapy? the loss of her leg, "nothing", Manly Pointer, religion --> What would Hulga's tombstone say?
 * Purpose: to understand the overall idea and purpose behind the work in relation to everyday life
 * Key Part: plot