If the old woman had kept her mouth shut, not revealing that she recognized The Misfit, would the family be alive at the end of the story? Or did The Misfit intend to kill all the family members when he pulled up alongside their car?
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jerry
2/10/2016 11:18:27 am
I believe that they were all hiding up there and saw their car coming from a long way away and they all had the intent to kill them but the grandma knew who he was and what hes done before in the past to go to jail before. So the grandma tried sweet talking him and it didnt work what so ever cause they already had the mind set to kill them. They killed everybody and im guessing took their car and took their clothes from their suitcases cause they broke out of jail. The misfit didnt care about there family or anything just was on the run from the law.
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Brian
2/10/2016 11:23:06 am
I think you are correct but I'd say they could have acted a lot differently especially the old woman and it might have helped their situation.
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jesse
2/10/2016 11:29:14 am
i don't think the grandmother tried to sweet talk him out of it but just tried to get him distracted from it but it didn't work
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Emily Curfman
2/10/2016 11:34:37 am
I agree with you that the grandma was trying to sweet talk him into letting them go, but mainly her. Because as she was trying to convince him to pray and accept forgiveness her family was dying. One by one they were picked off, and she kept on going.
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Brian
2/10/2016 11:19:26 am
I think that it might have helped their situation if she hadn't and there might have been a small chance he wouldn't have. Because he said it was a bad thing she recognized him. I do think however he planned to kill them based off how slow they got out of the car and them bringing guns to start with. She definitely didn't help them by saying that and by talking the entire time because it probably just made the Misfit more annoyed and want to kill them more. The group splitting up didn't help a lot either. So I'd say the old woman caused the Misfit to totally make up his mind to kill them but after that they didn't take the right course of actions to try and get away alive.
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Bryan Carter
2/10/2016 11:23:48 am
I agree with you but if you and your family were in this situation and people with guns came up to you and told you to split up from the rest of your family, would you say no?
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jesse
2/10/2016 11:30:44 am
Larry I disagree because they may have brought the guns incase anyone recognized them
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Bryan Carter
2/10/2016 11:21:26 am
I think the the Misfit wasn't going to kill them before the grandma recognized him. When she did the Misfit didn't want them to go and tell the authorities so he thought he had to kill them. The Misfit seemed really nice until the grandma said that she recognized him from somewhere and then they started her family into the woods. If the grandma would have kept her mouth shut, I think the family would have survived. I think the misfit just wanted to see if they can fix their car to steal it and later decided to kill them.
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jerry
2/10/2016 11:26:43 am
i agree with you that he wasnt going to kill them before the grandma reconized him it would have helped for sure.
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Jjesse
2/10/2016 11:26:12 am
I believe he may have let them all live if the grandmother had kept her mouth shut instead of announcing that she had recognized him, but he had the gun in case any of them recognized him, but probably would have asked if any of them recognized him. I don’t think he intended to kill them when he got out of the car, but did so to keep them from telling the police where he was going after they had helped the family after the grandmother said she recognized him, but this wouldn’t have happened if the grandmother had kept her mouth shut about the house or hadn’t jumped when the thought came to mind.
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Emily Curfman
2/10/2016 11:26:36 am
If the old women would have kept her mouth shut her family along with herself would have probably survived. Because in the text the misfit says that "It would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn't reckernized me." The grandma put her entire family in danger by telling them who he was, and even if she did not tell there was a chance that they could have gotten out of there alive.But even so, John Wesley also put them in danger by questioning the strangers as he said "What you got that gun for? Whatcha gunna do with that gun?" So I believe that it was the grandmas fault but it was also implied by John Wesley.
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Anteia
2/10/2016 11:32:41 am
You make a good point. I think that a few people, including myself, have overlooked the children, deeming them as unimportant.
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Noah
2/10/2016 11:38:52 am
I would agree that they would most defiantly had a higher chance of surviving. Because if they did not know who he was he just fixed their car he could tell them how to go back down the road away from the destination he was going to which was most likely a safe house.
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Anteia
2/10/2016 11:28:49 am
I think that if the old lady hadn't recognized The Misfit, they might have had a chance to live. I can't say for sure if they would have lived, mostly because criminals like that are a bit unpredictable. In the story The Misfit says, "Yes'm, but it would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn't of reckernized me." I believe that by this he was saying that rather than killing them, he might have just robbed them of their belongings instead. In my opinion, the old woman was wrong when she claimed that The Misfit was a good man. He would do terrible things and once he was punished, he wouldn't remember anything but the punishment. "You can do one thing or another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it." My personal opinion is that he probably would have killed them anyway. The Misfit had a chance to do something bad to others without the authorities finding out until long after, so why wouldn't he take advantage of it?
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Noah
2/10/2016 11:42:52 am
unpredictability is a thing that brings big questions in almost all situations.
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Emily Curfman
2/10/2016 11:44:09 am
I like your point of view on the story, I thought it was very straight to the point.
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Anteia
2/10/2016 11:50:57 am
As always. ;)
Sierra H
2/10/2016 11:46:52 am
I agree with Anteia because he is a criminal and he is capable of anything but the old lady flapping her mouth didn't help the matter of life and death. and that he wound be likely to kill them even without the old lady.
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Loodachris
2/10/2016 11:29:02 am
I think that if the grandmother would have not said anything about her recognizing " The Misfit", the family would still be alive. When the three men stopped and got out of the car, they stopped to see if the family was alive. When the old lady said that she recognized the man, he said that he wished that she didn't. I don't think that "The Misfit" wanted to have to kill the family, but after she remembered who he was, he couldn't take the chance of them telling the authorities where he was. "The misfit" probably didn't want to kill the family, because he offered to help them with their car, but the old lady ruined that chance by saying that he was "The Misfit".
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Noah Mrashall
2/10/2016 11:29:38 am
I believe that if the old lady had kept quiet. Her and her family would still have been killed. Because the road that they crashed off of was most likely a road to a safe house and that is why the misfit was on such isolated road. But then the misfit saw the family's car go down the road and crash.When the misfit and his crew first saw them they most likely thought they better get ride of the witnesses of the road to the house before they reveal its location. Either that they might have been paranoid that the family themselves would find the house for help and report its location to the police they where running form.
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Anteia
2/10/2016 11:34:46 am
You have a good theory about the safe house. I like it.
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Hayden Deeds
2/10/2016 11:40:29 am
I agree with Noah because The Misfit escaped from prison and he didn't intend to go back anytime soon
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Emily Curfman
2/10/2016 11:48:00 am
I like how you took a different perspective on this story by implying a safe house, it was a good and creative contradiction.
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Sierra Hayhurst
2/10/2016 11:31:44 am
I believe that if the lady would have kept it to herself that there is a possibility that they would be still alive. the lady had the tendency to ramble about the man being the misfit and that made him madder, as she talked about it, you can here in the story he was losing his temper. she then said that he could have chosen to be different and that just set over for him. But there is still that possibility that he wanted to kill them but at the end, it kinda just set the fact that it was the lady's fault for all of their deaths. so I believe that it was really just the lady's fault for their deaths.
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Umphy
2/10/2016 11:52:19 am
I agree, only when the grandmother is facing death, in her final moments alone with the Misfit, does she understand where she has gone wrong.
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Hayden Deeds
2/10/2016 11:34:14 am
If the grandma would haven't had said anything about him being The Misfit I think that he still would have killed the family. He was a wanted criminal for escaping prison and him and two other criminals were on the run and stopped to help a car in the ditch. That is the last thing I would do if i was on the run I mean come on be a little smarter than that. The grandma was indeed the Misfit's mother only a mother can recognize a face that fast. The Misfit I think was taking his anger out on the grandma he had blamed her for the way he turned out and was getting revenge on his mother.
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Haley Holden
2/11/2016 02:10:58 pm
I agree with you Hayden, because even though she could have kept her mouth shut she didn't. Yet if she did he could have killed them either way because he couldn't risk even the slightest possibility that they may have recognized him and or his friends.
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Umphy
2/10/2016 11:50:15 am
Yes, I believe the family would still be alive if the grandmother wouldn't have let him know that she recognized him. The family could have possibly gotten away if the grandma didn't come up with the genius idea to go to this house to which led them to their deaths. If she were more cautious of the possible outcome, many things could have been avoided. She seems to be a very secretive person anyway, considering she sneaked the cat into the car in the beginning, she may have known the danger but didn't say anything hoping it would all be fine.
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Haley Holden
2/11/2016 02:08:27 pm
After reading this story I think that if the grandma wouldn't have recognized the Misfit than they may have survived. The Misfit had said thought that he had borrowed some clothes from another family which could possibly mean that he had killed that family also. The grandma could have kept her mouth shut and they may have survived but even then the Misfit was still a killer and he intended on killing them. He did say that if she wouldn't have recognized him and said that she did they would have been better off. Which translates to if you wouldn't have said anything about you knowing who I was than I probably wouldn't have killed your whole entire family. So either way he was going to kill them and they really couldn't have done anything about it.
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mikayla
2/11/2016 02:18:46 pm
I think that he would of killed them anyway because that's what criminals do. When you have done crimes you cant really stop yourself because when you've done it you want to do more. It's like smoking in a way if you know what I'm trying to say. And the grandmother should have kept her mouth shut but I don't think it did any good as you can see. I think when she was giving the pet talk it made him more mad because he didn't believe her or knew she was lying because if she wasn't they would be alive.
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