1 You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to die forget what you did and be punished for it. This quote was stated in Flannery O' Connors' story of A Good Man is Hard to Find. She was Catholic her whole life, which motivated her to write stories and influence them. In A Good Man is Hard to Find, there were many examples of religion revealed in his literature like the one presented and more examples followed. 2 The statement above is the one where the Misfit says this towards the end of the story, just before sending the children's mother, the child, and June Star into the woods to be killed. 2 The Misfit tells Grandma that he was punished for a crime he can't remember, and this is the lesson he learned from it.2 According to the Misfit's speculation, no matter what the crime, big or small, the consequence will be the same, even if you never remember what you did.2 This idea of ​​being punished for a forgotten crime relates to the Christian belief in original sin. 2 According to Christian theology, all human beings are sinners, from birth, for which they will be punished eternally. 2 But only through the grace of God can people be saved. 2 In this perception, humans “forget” their crime, but are still punished, just as the Misfit claims. 2 Furthermore, the grandmother has her moment of grace when she recognizes the Misfit as one of her “children,” recognizing for the first time how very similar he is to the Misfit. 2 He is not morally superior, as he has always believed. 2 Instead, both are struggling, in their own ways, to come to terms with the difficult, often questionable belief of the Christian faith.3...... middle of paper ......thoughts and lifestyle O' Connor lives throughout its history. The numerous examples shown about religion and Christianity play a role in the reader and make the student understand that O'Connor was trying to "sell" his particular perception of life in this world as valid. Works cited Drake, Robert.5 "'The bloody, smelly, mad shadow of Jesus' in Flannery O'Connor's fiction." Studies in Comparative Literature 3.2 (1966): 183-196. Rpt. 5 in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Sharon R. Gunton. vol. 21. Detroit: 6 Gale Research, 1982. Literary resources from Gale. Network. 24 April 2014. Renaissance: essays on the values ​​of literature. 52.4 (Summer 2000): p311. 6 From the Literary Resource Center. "O'Connors Short Stories." Np, nd Web. April 30. 2014.7