<P> It was O'Connor's method to use the dark and morose to reveal beauty and grace; in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", violence reveals divine grace . Divine grace, or God's unmerited favor, is a concept fundamental to man's salvation in Christian theology . Christians believe the imperfect can be made perfect, i.e. people can be saved by the grace through believing in Jesus Christ . The grandmother in the story accepts grace by acknowledging that she helped to create The Misfit and that they are bound by kinship . She reaches out to him as if he were her own . Christian themes are common in O'Connor's work . Related concepts include: Sola gratia, actual grace, and prevenient grace . </P> <P> O'Connor explained that in her stories "violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace ." In the case of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," O'Connor explained in a reflection piece "A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable," published in 1969, that violence is her way to make her hard - headed characters, such as the grandmother, accept their time of grace . </P> <P> At the end of the story, after The Misfit shoots the grandmother, he says to Bobby Lee, "She would of been a good woman, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life ." This quote is showing The Misfit's enlightenment to what the grandmother had experienced right before he killed her . He is saying that he noticed that she was trying to preach the gospel to him, but that it only happened because she was threatened by death . According to The Misfit, if the grandmother had lived her life held up at gunpoint, she might have lived a more righteous life . </P> <P> A film adaptation of the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," entitled Black Hearts Bleed Red, was made in 1992 by New York filmmaker Jeri Cain Rossi . The film stars noted New York artist Joe Coleman but according to most reviewers the film does not depict the story or its characters well . </P>

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