A Good Man is Hard to Find Padlet by Adrian Gomez-Ferraez https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5 en-us 2021-09-17 19:51:02 UTC 2021-10-08 20:18:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9b8-2642.png What Drives the Character(s) to think, feel, and/or act the way they do? ag93467 https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1749542574 One major factor that drives the way the grandma feels is the changing of times from when she was born and grew up in to where she is now. "He and the grandmother discussed better times."(5) “These days you don’t know who to trust,” he said. “Ain’t that the truth?” (4) The problem that she has is that she cannot or has not understood that the way she grew up in is long gone has changed over time and has left her to play catch up.]]> 2021-09-17 19:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1749542574 How do the details in the text convey or reveal one or more aspects of a setting? (Include: Location, Time, year, season, geography, culture) ag93467 https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1754915439 We know that the family leaves their home in the morning, and that they leave Red Sammy's Famous Barbecue "the hot afternoon." So we can presume it's most likely summer. We know it has to be from 1919 forward because the author mentions coca cola stock which was released to the public in 1919.]]> 2021-09-20 18:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1754915439 How does the setting affect readers of the text? ag93467 https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1754916759 The setting helps convey the social changes that are going on around the grandma and it helps the reader understand that she deliberately chooses to not accept change and just see how stubborn she is, it also gives an understanding into just what kind of environment the grandma grew up in.]]> 2021-09-20 18:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1754916759 How does the particular sequence of events and the manner in which a text presents those events to a reader affect a reader's experience with the text? ag93467 https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1754919622 The reader gets to experience anger and frustration with the grandmother, from the not wanting to go to Florida and instead wanting to go to Tennessee. She warns her son Bailey “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose...  headed toward Florida", which is a sign of foreshadowing, and then the misfit makes her appearance when the family had the accident along the dirt road with the lines “Good afternoon,”. Then the story ends with the family having a not so good afternoon.]]> 2021-09-20 18:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1754919622 Who is the narrator of the text? What details convey that? ag93467 https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1754958367 The story is told in a third person point of view, and tells the perspective of the grandmother, when the grandmother was trying to manipulate Bailey "There was a secret panel in this house," with this she was trying to get the kids excited to persuade the children, and then the author gives it off by saying "she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing that she were".]]> 2021-09-20 18:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1754958367 How does the narrator's distance from the events of a narrative affect the details and information presented to the reader? ag93467 https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1758232208 2021-09-21 19:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ag93467/6a8rdo5wl2n6ovu5/wish/1758232208