A good Man is Hard to find is a story from the deep South about the murder of a family. The story starts off boringly slow. The family is planning on going to Florida but the loud obnoxious grandma doesn't want to go and makes the excuse that a killer is on the loose in the same area after reading the paper. The family ends up over ruling the grandma and still travels to Florida. At this point it is a typical family road trip stops to eat kids yelling. Then the grandma convinces the family to get off course and go down a old road to revisit a childhood memory that she thought she had there. Then the author catches us off guard by making the car flip multiple times in a horrific accident. At this point in the reading the entire story begins to crash as well. The family is stranded till a car comes along. Men get out of the car and the grandma recognizes one from the paper she had read, as a killer. The killer decides the only thing he can do is kill them all. The grandma is the last to go after much pleading and begging for her life.
My favorite part of the story was how the author makes the whole story fall apart with the car crash. At this climatic moment he took the story from "a Chevy Chase movie" to "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." I love everything after the crash it makes the beginning worth while.
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