Wednesday, October 22, 2008

good country people

This story deals with the theme of the human inability to see clearly and thus name clearly because Mrs. Hopewell thought that her daughter Joy was still a child when she was thirty and treated her more like a child. She also took care of Mrs. Freeman and her daughters even though they worked for her. When the boy came to sell the bibles she could not see that he was not telling the truth about selling bibles. She also thought that he was a good country boy. Joy also did not see that this boy was not telling the truth and believed that she liked him. When they were at the barn Joy thought that he was interested in her leg but did not see until he opened the bible and pulled out the flask that he was not a good person. Even at the end of the story when the boy takes her leg and leaves, the story makes you think that Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman not knowing what he did thinks that he is still a good country boy.

I did not really understand the name clearly part of the question.

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