A Good Man Is Hard to Find

This story is about a Grandmother, her three grandchildren, her son and daughter-in-law. They all live together and are discussing a family trip to Tennesseee to visit some relatives. The story starts out with the Grandmother discussing a newspaper article regarding three inmates that escaped from the state pen, and on their way to Florida. The Grandmother is bound and determined for the whole family to go to Tennessee, in hopes of not running into the inmates. So, the next day, the family packs up, and heads off for their vacation. The two oldest grandchildren, John Wesley, eleven years old and June Star, I'm thinking she is maybe around eight or nine, but seems to know more than she should. Both children are sassy and disrespectful. The daughter-in-law is just kind of there. She is busy with the baby, and the grandmother's son, Bailey seems to be a different character. I don't think he feels to much love for his mother. I think he just puts up with her. So they are on their way to Tennessee. They stop at a filling station for lunch and small discussion with the owners. They leave the station, and end up taking a "detour" to scenic route through a plantation. This of course is the grandmothers idea, and her and the children were able to persuade Bailey to take this detour. So the family is traveling on a dirt road, in which the grandmother was sure it was the right road, that she remembered. Turns out it was the wrong road, and entirely different road in a different state. They end up having an accident, flipping the vehicle. The daughter-in-law and baby get thrown out of the car, the grandmother is injured and the rest are okay. The family is sitting on the side of the road waiting for help and it turns out three men come across them. All three men get out and right away the Grandmother has suspicions that they are the "misfits" that have escaped from the prison. Right away there is conflict, one of the three men take the grandson and Bailey to the woods, they end up shooting them. The Grandmother is begging them, they kill her and finish the rest of the family off. I just was surprised that the ending turned out how it did. I wasn't expecting for all of them to die. The Grandmother was a talker, and I thought she could of persuaded the men off in another direction and they would of been left alone and went off on their vacation.