Kayley Nguyen

Dr. Cobos

ELA

December 11, 2017

Do you think the grandmother changes throughout the story? If not, why not? If so, why? Use evidence from the text to back up your opinion.

To me in the story the grandma changed a lot. In the beginning you can see that the grandma cleary didn’t want to go. She tried many things to convince her only son to take the kids to east Tennessee where she could visit some of her connections, “She wanted to visit some of her connections in the east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind.” Shortly after she shows Bailey a newspaper article that is talking about a criminal who escaped the Federal pen and was heading towards Florida. Grandma was then saying that she would never take her kids to a place like that while there is a criminal on the loose, he should be more broad and take the kids to east Tennessee. My question is, why didn't Bailey say anything about it?

I thought that it was really interesting to read that the grandmother would even try to talk to the kids and persuade them not go to Florida. Towards the middle of the story, the grandmother starts to realize that after their encounter with a man with a gun, “his face was as familiar to her as if she had known him au her life but she could not recall who he was”. After the misfit had told everyone to sit down in the same spot the grandma realized that he was the misfit “You’re the Misfit!”.  Right after the misfit told them that it would've been better if she had not recognized them. Going back to the beginning of the story the grandma didn’t want to go for other reasons but her argument was because the misfit was loose. Throughout the story you can tell that she is constantly asking questions and warning the family that the misfit is going to turn up. In the end the grandma is definitely right. She tried to convince the misfit that she knows he is a good person and that he really doesn't need to kill them. To me the grandma was also the bravest one, Bailey never really showed interest in what she was ever trying to tell him. Another thing is throughout the last six pages the story just goes on and on between them two about why he shouldn't kill them, until he finally did. Going back to my question about why did Bailey respond to anything even when his mother was right, he still didn't do much talking, the grandma did. She was the one who was trying to persuade the misfit to not kill them the entire time.