Doctor Jack-O'-Lantern by Richard Yates

Vinni is the new boy at school, an orphan, who has problems making friends. His teacher Ms. Price tries to help him out by giving him chance after chance to help him out, but Vinni keeps feeding the bully guy vibe to the kids. Even though she tries and tries to give him chances he continues to let her down by lying, writing curse words on the wall and also drawing a picture of her on the wall to show who has the real power.

With Vinni being an orphan he has never really had a mother figure and Ms. Price would be the first real adult figure to care about him and him not knowing or wanting the attention uses it to gain the attention of the students by being a bully figure to the others and shows them how powerful he is by taking the "punishment" that the teacher supposedly gave him, and then drawing her picture on the wall.

GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE by FLANNERY O’CONNOR

This is a story about two family who is a little too trusting. The Hopewell family owns a farm and the Freedman family comes by and helps out. The Hopewell consist of a mother and two her two daughters. The Freedman family is a mother and her daughter Joy who changes her name to Hugla. Hugla lost one of her legs in a hunting accident when she was 10 and had an aritfical leg growing up. She was also a scholar of philosophy. One day a bible salesman came and began to swoon Hugla. They went to a picnic where at the end he gains her trust and then steals her leg.

In this story I see a trust issue. The people are too trusting of the stranger and in the end he steals her leg. Also a big issue with you see Hugla to be a bully and in the end she is the one in danger and the salesman is the crock.