"Those Good Ole Country People"

In the story, good country people, there are four main characters in the story and their names are very important. There is Mrs. Hopewell, a farm owner, who thinks she is superior to other people. She also has a daughter who has ways like her. Joy Hulga, she is very smart and has a PhD in philosophy. Then we have Mrs. Freeman and her two daughters that stay next to Mrs. Hopewell and she also works for her too. The two daughters Glynese and Carramae, Carramae is fifteen and married and pregnant and Glynese is eighteen and has many admires. Finally we have Manley Pointer who is a bible salesman who is seen to be a good person when he was first met.
Mrs. Hopewell’s name is very interesting because her name is hope and well and knowing that and reading the story a person would think that she is one of the good people in the story. She can sometimes see the good in people but the ways that she sees them will make a reader think of her in a different way. First impressions with her are very weird but yet a first impression, she meets and greets but sees the outside look and judges the appearance. On one incident where she meets Manley Pointer, he comes to sell his bibles and she tells him, “You might as well put those up,”… “I don’t want one” (O’Connor 106).
Then there is Manley Pointer, some will see him as a con man and also a weird guy. He comes to sell bibles but towards the end of the story readers find out that he doesn’t believe in God and that he uses that act to get over on people and most readers don’t believe his story about the heart condition. His name is Manley; readers would take that as seeing him wanting to be manly or his personality as being manly. Once he gets into the house, he starts off by telling them that he has a heart condition and he sees Joy Hulga starting to tear up and putting his con man skills to work he can tell that they both have the same condition.
Joy Hopewell is the smartest yet meanest person in the story, she feels she is better than everyone because she has a PhD and that she is really smart. When she was young, her confidence was shot down, literally. She was hunting when she was a kid and one of her legs were shot off and every since then she felt ugly. Once she was old enough to get her name changed, she changed it to Hulga. She felt as though her name should match who she was. She has a fake leg and she stomps around the house as thought she is mad at the world but she also looks down on everyone because of her PhD, but one day her smarts were put to the test when Manley Pointer seduced her and invited her to come to the barn. Once they were in the barn they climbed up the ladder and started to talk. They started out talking about her fake leg and she showed him how she puts it on and takes it off, then he asked to try and she let him. When she let him do that, he stole her leg and left her in the barn, helpless and far away from home.
Last but not least is Mrs. Freeman; her name is very creative and well put together. Free and man, even though she works for Mrs. Hopewell she doesn’t take orders from anyone. She’s her own woman and she has her own thoughts. She believes in what she wants to believe and she doesn’t let anyone tell her different. At the Beginning of the story the narrator says that she has a neutral expression and sometimes two others, forward and reverse. She has her two daughters Glynese and Carramae, who also work for Mrs. Hopewell. Some readers would say that some of their characteristics come from their mom. Mrs. Freeman can be quite and nice but reading this story, Mrs. Freeman is one of the people who path no one should cross.

HIGHER POWER

SOMEONE TO LOOK UP TO
SOMEONE WHO IS GREAT IN ALL ASPECTS

YOU GO TO FOR HELP
YOU SEE AS A FRIEND

ONE WHO IS ABOVE ALL
I AM

A HIGHER POWER

BLOGGING???

its weird that blogging is apart of our grade...but since we have to do it...imma do my best at doin it...in class we are about to start on poetry...wonder how that class is gonna go......zzzzzzzzz....lol naw not for me...i secretly like poetry...guess its not a secret anymore


roses are red
violets are blue
what am i doin wit a guh like u
im the man thats very sweet
and ur the girl with the very sharp teeth
but i fell in love wit u
its so crazy how no one knows about u

where's my muzik???

trying to see how to put music on my blog...lol tired now so im bout to hit the sack