Red Sammy And The Grandmother Character Analysis

A Raisin in the Sun, play by Lorraine Hansberry depicts the life of the Younger family. Youngers is an African American family living in Chicago in 1950s, they are struggling for money. As the play proceeds, they run into a plenty of problems. The younger family is slowly tearing apart. Ruth younger the wife of Walter Lee Younger is holding the family from ripping apart. Ruth is the person who supports everyone in the family. Ruth's capability of thinking through and beyond with her fearless and rational nature makes her mature, selfless and loving women.

In this tale a family takes a vacation to Florida where a murderer who calls himself the Misfit, who was well designed by O’Connor to represent the grotesque qualities of humanity, has just escaped from prison. During a brief lunch break in which the grandmother and store owner, Red Sammy, lament the ills of society and reminisce about how much better life used to be and how no one is good anymore; while ironically, they themselves are not the best people. Later, after a misinformed wrong turn, the grandmother’s smuggled cat gets loose and causes a damaging wreck, this angers her son Bailey but he doesn’t confront her immediately, he needs to attend to his wife who has suffered a broken shoulder. After a few minutes the Misfit and his henchmen find them and get out of their vehicle, they look like they might be about to offer help but the grandmother recognizes the Misfit and makes it obvious.

From the time they all got in the car to the time they got out, all the grandmother did was talk. She was trying to talk her way to Tennessee and she talked her way into them detouring to go see some house that the grandmother

In the beginning, the grandmother is reading the newspaper where she then learns about the Misfit who escaped prison. The grandmother says, “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscious if it did” (O’Connor 485). This quote foreshadows as the accident happened with her guidance on the road it is what led them to steer off the main road. They were on and into the arms of who they call the Misfit and his

It is a common experience: a woman dates a man who is rude to everyone except for her. He makes her feel special, but a few months later, he becomes an abusive, controlling boyfriend. Walter Younger from the play “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, while not an abusive person is a milder example of this phenomenon. He is the father in a large African American family, and lives with his mother, sister, wife, and young son. His father has recently died, and his mother, Lena, receives an enormous check from their life insurance. They need this money, as they live in a small house and need to move to a larger one, but Walter wants to invest the money into opening a liquor store instead. Although the play seems to revolve around him, Walter

The long dusty dirt road ends up being the ill-fated end to all their lives thanks to the grandmother. A criminal that is on the loose happens along the dirt road. He has his cronies take each family member into the forest and kills them. The entire time this is happening, the grandmother is trying to talk to him out of killing them by being nice to him and trying to convince him that he is really a good man.

When the family stopped to get something to eat, the Grandmother talked with the owner, Red Sammy and his wife, about how “good” men are hard to find these days.The first reference the Grandmother made of a “good” man was about Red Sammy.

Red Scarf Girl, a non-fiction memoir by Ji-Li Jiang, is a novel about a girl named Jiang Ji-Li and her family suffering through the consequences of the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai, China. Throughout her journey, Jiang Ji-Li is faced with many conflicts and difficulties. One of the hardships Jiang Ji-Li has to deal with is her class status. Her family is classified as a “black” family, meaning they are against the communist party and held on to the old traditions known as “four olds.” Jiang Ji-Li struggles with deciding to follow the leader of China, Chairman Mao, and betray her loved ones, or continue to be persecuted but be true to her family. Moreover, she is prevented from joining special school actives, such as speaking at the Class

The story views the life of the grandmother and her pathetic view of life and how she tries to convince the Misfit into believing what her beliefs are. It is no accident that the grandmother and her entire family are killed, the family 's vacation is doomed from the beginning.

This family was messed up and it all started with the grandmas second husband. He was a child molester and because of that ruined the children’s life. Mentally, physical and emotionally he scared these children. For example, mentally Jim thought it would be okay to ask his half sister to move in and basically become his wife.

The car turns over and the accident has left their automobile unable to go further. The children, seeing their first moment of violence are delighted and are only sad that no one has died in the collision. Since the kids have never experienced real loss or real pain before, the experience is one of novelty to them. When aid arrives, it is ironically in the form of The Misfit. The children’s enthusiasm and curiosity about why their Samaritan carries a gun is nothing. It is the grandmother who is nearly obsessed with violence who dooms the family. The final moments of the story are jarring, even more than half a century after they were written. While the family is taken into the woods and murdered one by one, grandmother sits begging The Misfit for her life by trying to appeal to his humanity. She asks him to pray and assures him that she believes that he is a good man at heart. This ploy does not work. “The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bit him and shot her three times through the chest. Then he put his gun down on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them” (O’Connor). It is one thing when you are sitting at a restaurant discussing what a person might do when faced with a murderer. It is quite another when the reality comes to you directly which is the point of the story. To those unacquainted with violence first hand, one can only speculate. To those very

She convinces them to drive onto an abandon dirt road, but suddenly remembers that the plantation is in Tennessee instead of George. Her sudden reaction causes her cat, who is under the seat, to jump out and bounce on the driver. The driver loses control and the car smacks right into a ditch. Everyone is okay until a truck pulls up and three guys jump out. The grandmother recognizes one of them as the Misfit. He tells his two men to take the family into the woods, and one at a time shoots and kills them. Meanwhile the grandmother tries to kiss up to the Misfit to save her life, but nothing she says works. With being the only one not killed yet, she tries to talk to the Misfit about religion and Jesus. The Misfit opens up to her about his past and how he has done some thinking about Jesus. At that moment, she has some clarity and reaches out to touch him. He ends up shooting her three times in the chest. When the other two men return from the woods, he tells them “She would’ve been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of

After riding along a little further, the family is involved in a car accident. The main reason that the family is involved in the car accident is due to the grandmother. The grandmother remembers a mansion that she visits as a young girl. She is eager to go, because she wants the children to see how she grew up. This further states how the grandmother social class, because she lived in a mansion. During the time of the grandmother’s life, only plantation owners and their family lived in mansions. This also stressed the social class of the grandmother, because you can tell from this that the

The irony of the story is that it is under the directions of the Grandmother that leads the family into a run in with The Misfit, which is what she told her son she would never do. Throughout the trip we are given examples of the racism that was present during this period. The Grandmother makes multiple racist innuendos such as her observation of the “cute little pickaninny,” and her statement that “little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do” (O’Conner 2). During the ride, The Grandmother convinces Bailey to take a detour down an old, dirt road which supposedly leads to an old southern plantation home she once visited. The road leads them deep into the woods where an accident is caused by The Grandmothers cat, which leaves the car upturned and the family stranded. It is then the family encounters The Misfit, whom discovers them stranded as he was passing by. He approaches the family with two young men and shortly after The Grandmother lets out a scream as she realizes him. During their encounter, the readers are given a small glimpse into the deranged mind of The Misfit. It is apparent that he has an upturned moral compass. He gains pleasure from committing crimes and the meanness that goes along with it. During his conversation with the Grandmother, he slowly has his men take members of the family out

The family stops at a restaurant to get a bite to eat, and we find out that the two parents, Bailey and his wife, do not really care for the Grandmother. The Grandmother asks Bailey to dance, but he just declines and ignores her. Bailey’s wife does not seem to care either. They then continue on the road, and the Grandmother begins to tell the story of a house that she really enjoyed passing. She really wanted to go there, so she persuaded the children to want to go as well. After a long time of complaining, they finally convince their father to head back toward this house. They go down this road when all