I have many different reactions to this story. I did not really enjoy it. I found that it had very little plot and I spent most of the story thinking about how stupid the grandma was. The grandma really did screw everything up although she would've been correct when she voted to go to Tennessee instead of Georgia. Her first mistake was the bringing the cat, her second mistake was taking them down that dirt road. The two combined caused the crash which made them visible to the misfit. What I really don't like about this story is how obvious it is. The grandma reads about the misfit and what do you know, they all get killed by the misfit. There was no twist, no surprise, no shock or anything, they just went to georgia, had an accident, and all got killed by a madman. What really frustrated me was the little details that were added in that led you to believe that they were important but they actually mean nothing. Like when it says that Junes hair is naturally curly, I actually thought that that might've meant something later on but it meant nothing. Whereas the fact that she brought the cat with them was such an obvious statement that it was no surprise that that meant something later on. Overall I did not really enjoy this story.
Title explanation:
In my view, i think the title obviously refers to the misfit. Basically the whole second half of the story is the grandma "negotiating" with the misfit and telling him that he is a good man at heart and has good blood. This "good man" is the misfit but, the misfit is a horrible person who kills people so I think the title is just sarcastic. It just means that no matter how hard you try, you cant find a good man within a bad man. Once someone like the misfit has reached a certain point, there really is no going back to being good.
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