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[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago

We had to read a story in 10th grade about this family that's out on a road trip when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. A car pulls up and the driver steps out to assist the family. However, the grandmother (who up to this point was doing nothing but bitch and whine about everything) recognizes the stranger as a wanted criminal she saw on TV and stupidly points this out to everybody. Which naturally results in the entire family being executed one-by-one because they're now witnesses.

A whole family erased, just because granny couldn't keep her fat mouth shut for 5 minutes.

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Hadn't read it before, so I just did. (It's only 13 pages)

!Not only did Grandma call out the misfit to everyone, she caused the car accident in multiple ways: Bringing a cat on the trip, directing the family down a dirt road to a place she misremembered from a different state, scaring the cat enough that it clawed her son, the driver, in the shoulder, causing the car to flip and THEN was willing to sell out her entire family to survive.!<

Fuck grandma.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, she was terrible throughout the whole story. Not one redeeming quality.

[-] hibsen@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, that's the one. I couldn't remember the name.

[-] hibsen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I forget a lot of it, except that last bit where the Misfit says something like “she could’ve been a good person if there’d been someone to shoot her every day of her life.”

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Well that summary's an uncomfortable parallel for modern events

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