PROGRAM for 2004
COMMUNITY READ
April 5-9, 2004
Library Exhibit
Cross-curricular Discussion
Film
Student-led Discussion
One-woman Show
Field Trips
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Biographical
Sketch
Childhood Home
Comforts of Home
Flannery O'Connor Criticism
Flannery O'Connor Research
Georgia Women of
Achievement
Little Blue Light
O'Connor Country
Selected Bibliography
The Sincerest
Form of Flannery
Student's Guide
Theology of Discontent
A Good Man Is
Hard to Find and
Other Stories
"The Artificial Nigger"
F. O'Connor
"The Dark Side of the Cross"
P. Galloway
"Good
Country People"
F. O'Connor
"A Good Man Is Hard to
Find" F. O'Connor
"A Good Man Is Hard to
Find" F. O'Connor
Discussion
Questions on "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" C. Williams
"Obliged to See God,"
J. Polter
"A South without
Myths," Alice Walker
"Teaching
'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'"
COMMUNITY READS
Citywide
Book Clubs
Library of Congress
Georgia Center for the Book |
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Please join us for AASU's Campus Read, April 5-9, 2004, when we will be reading
and discussing the first collection of short stories by native Savannah author Flannery
O'Connor--A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories. Faculty and
students in various disciplines will be meeting to discuss the ten stories in O'Connor's
book, which appears on the Georgia Top 25 Reading List, a project of the Georgia Center for the Book.
NEW: Selected Responses to "A
Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Armstrong Atlantic State University Campus Read
April 5-9, 2004
reading
Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
All Week (April 5-9, 2004). Special Collections Exhibit, Lane Library.
AASU’s Lane Library is pleased
to showcase our very own collection of rare books and artifacts.
Monday, April 5. Across
the Curriculum Discussion,
Noon, University Hall 156.
Faculty from various disciplines will lead a discussion about approaching
O'Connor's stories from alternative viewpoints.
Tuesday, April 6. "Displaced
Person": Film Showing and Discussion,
7pm, University Hall 156.
Enjoy light refreshments and engaging conversation as we view this .short
film version from 1976 of O’Connor’s story
Wednesday, April 7. Student-led
Community Book Club Discussion.
Noon, University Hall 156.
Join in the book club craze by sharing in this conversation with students and
community members reading the book.
Thursday, April 8. Flannery O’Connor, One Woman Show and Reception, 7 p.m., University Hall 156.
Beverly Fatheree will entertain us with her acclaimed one-woman show as
O’Connor herself.
Friday, April 9. Field Trips to Flannery O’Connor’s Childhood Home.
11:00, 12:30, and 2:00.
Tour the house in
historic downtown Savannah where Mary Flannery O’Connor lived from 1925 until
1938.
Selected Responses
to "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
In March 2004, students in Dr. Lucretia Parham's "Internet and the World Wide
Web" course provided their insights into O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard to
Find":
--"A Different
Interpretation" (R. King)
--"My Analysis"
(D. Hathaway)
--"Character
Descriptions, Story Overview, and Interpretations" (K. Archer)
--"Analysis"
(L. O'Quinn)
--"Death in 'A Good
Man Is Hard to Find'" (A.L. Branson)
--"An Essay"
(A. Maldonado)
--"Symbols"
(C. Kime)
--"The Mystery of
Grace" (T. Eby)
Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories may be purchased
from Amazon,
Barnes
& Noble, Powell's,
and other online book sellers. The ten stories in this collection also appear in the
Library of America edition of O'Connor's Collected
Works and in The
Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor.
updated 02 May 2004
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