“A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”

   More on "A Good Man is Hard to Find":

http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/a-moment-of-grace-in-flannery-oconnors-a-good-man-is-hard-to-find/

https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/flannery-oconnors-good-man-hard-find-whos-real-misfit

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/25/readers-den-flannery-oconnor-good-man-hard-find

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=9&sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4214

Links on Southern Culture:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-flannery-oconnors-journey-through-the-south

Folow this link for a collection of links about the story:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/O’Connor.htm

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&vid=11&hid=4214

http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=casfac

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/607/784

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall95/Haines.html

O'Connor reading the story and commentary:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/rare_1959_audio_flannery_oconnor_reads_a_good_man_is_hard_to_find.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jul/05/fresh-look-flannery-o-connor-cartoons

Four collections of essays provide a good range of criticism on O’Connor (These would be found in the Literary Criticism section of a book store or library):

1. The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Lewis A. Lawson (1966; rpt. Fordham University Press, 1977).

2. Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (Hall, 1985).

3. Flannery O’Connor, edited by Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1986).

4. Realist of Distances: Flannery O’Connor Revisited, edited by Karl-Heinz Westarp and Jan Nordby Gretlund (Aarhus, 1987).

The Misfit with the grandmother:

Taking the family to the woods:

The author:

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

This is an article about the misuse of church funds:

https://news.sky.com/story/bishop-used-church-money-for-cattle-ranch-11299536

This is an article about villagers mistaking a sex doll for an angel:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-toy-washes-indonesian-beach-locals-angel-article-1.2624725

Magical Realism:

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-magical-realism#quiz-0


https://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/resourcebank/definitions/


This article discusses "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" and magical realism:

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/marquez.htm

Here is a list of fairytales that you may want to reference:

http://ivyjoy.com/fables/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/


What makes a story a fairy tale?

http://www.voxmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/what-makes-a-fairy-tale/

Freudian Analysis of the story:

https://bradham.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/freudian-principles-explaining-a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wings/

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

http://www.academia.edu/1000317/Marquezs_A_Very_Old_Man_with_Enormous_Wings_and_Bambaras_The_Lesson

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12287

https://seanfoleyportfolio.weebly.com/a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wings.html

Author's Obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia-marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html?_r=0

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Bullet in the Brain"

 

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Bullet in the Brain"

 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

http://www.ambrosebierce.org/journal1baybrook.html

Some info on the author:

https://www.htsdnj.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=27608&dataid=46305&FileName=An%20Occurrence%20at%20Owl%20Creek%20Bridge.pdf

http://futureofthebook.org/occurrence/

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge-ambrose-beirce/3446101.html

"Bullet in the Brain"

 https://milled.com/the-new-yorker-1/tobias-wolffs-bullet-in-the-brain-DiWhBAykPux3iFvQ

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-03-29-0803270250-story.html

https://fictionwritersreview.com/shoptalk/short-story-month-rec-bullet-in-the-brain/

Interview with the author:

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5391/the-art-of-fiction-no-183-tobias-wolff

Death and Time

This is just an abstract but the information can be useful:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392410010614

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/time-and-death-0

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/844507/what-happens-when-you-die-quantum-theory-life-after-death

"The Lottery" and "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

 

The Lottery

 Articles on tradition:

This article discusses how different cultures address death:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/19/local/la-me-0819-lopez-dyingwell-20120819

This link discusses American Culture:
http://www.americanfamilytraditions.com/american_culture.htm

Here is a link to what The Bible has to say about culture:
http://www.openbible.info/topics/traditions

This is an interesting look at how different cultures have different traditions when it comes to childcare:
http://alphamom.com/parenting/interesting-parenting-traditions-from-different-cultures/




Somebody made a short movie based on the story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV03h3XWTDU

Criticism:
http://home.netwood.net/kosenko/jackson.html

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Jackson.htm
GROUPTHINK:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/groupthink

http://www.abacon.com/commstudies/groups/groupthink.html

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/theory/grpthink.html

http://boingboing.net/2014/08/05/how-groupthink-gets-reality-ba.html?utm_content=buffer54149&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/david-brooks-the-child-in-the-basement.html?_r=0

http://www.tor.com/2015/11/19/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-is-beautiful-in-map-form/

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/

http://www.teenink.com/reviews/book_reviews/article/133226/The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas-by-Ursula-K-Le-Guin/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/25/688925/-

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/david-brooks-the-child-in-the-basement.html?_r=0

http://www.tor.com/2015/11/19/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-is-beautiful-in-map-form/

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/

http://www.teenink.com/reviews/book_reviews/article/133226/The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas-by-Ursula-K-Le-Guin/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/25/688925/-