The story “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oats embraces some ideas of existentialism theory‚ popular in the sixtieths of the past century‚ that a person’s true and best qualities reveal during dramatic situations‚ usually during their fighting for life. This story is about a teenage girl‚ whose behavior and a perception of self drastically changes within minutes because of a brutal reality breaking into her life and destroying it. Connie is a protagonist of the story.
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Ebenezer Scrooge‚ the miser amongst Christmas. Dickens creation of whom encapsulates everything that detests Christian Christmas values of ‘charity‚ mercy‚ forbearance‚ and benevolence’ At the beginning of Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol – Scrooge‚ acts as the chief protagonist within the novella in which he is initially depicted as a ‘squeezing‚ wrenching‚ grasping‚ scraping‚ clutching‚ covetous old sinner’‚ as ‘self-contained‚ and as solitary as an oyster’. At this stage‚ it appears as if this
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The White Man’s Burden: Analysis by dbrager14 In the poem‚ “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling it shows that the European attitudes towards imperialism were negative. They considered the work a burden and thought that the Africans were savages. In lines 7 and 8‚ Kipling describes the Africans as “Your new-caught‚ sullen peoples/ Half-devil and half-child” making them seem like crazy‚ stupid devil people. Other lines describe the Africans as “sullen” and “silent” making them seem a little
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In‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates shares a story about a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who encounters Arnold Friend‚ a predator whose first words to Connie are‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby” (Oates). One day‚ while Connie is home alone‚ she receives an unexpected visitor from the
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Rikki-tikki-tavi “The motto of all the mongoose family is‚ ‘ Run and find out’‚ and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.” said Rudyard Kipling‚ the author of Rikki-tikki-tavi. Mongooses are very curious and love to play with other mongooses as well as humans. Real life mongooses are much like Rikki-tikki-tavi. They are playful yet sly. They are sensitive yet frightful. The film and the story are very similar yet different still. Many of these similarities and differences include the characters‚ setting
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“And check the show of pride‚” (Kipling page 1‚ Internet). This quote is telling the white people to show off their pride and their power‚ meaning that they had to take control of countries that weren’t imperialized. “The easy‚ ungrudged praise‚” (Kipling page 2‚ Internet). This quote shows that white people don’t work for gratitude‚ but work to get things done that they want to be done. “Send forth the best ye breed‚” (Kipling page 1‚ Internet). This quote shows that the white
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What will happen to you? Every person comes face to face at some point in life with vital decisions. Some of the decisions are minor ones‚ while others can bring turning points in life. In Joyce Carol Oates’ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" she displays a particular instant in the main character’s life. This character‚ Connie was caught in the difficult transition from her youth and innocence to a doubtful future. Throughout the story Connie alternates between two very different sides
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- � PAGE �1� - Park � PAGE �1� "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been" Vanity can be exposed as one ’s greatest weakness. "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been"‚ a short story written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ describes Connie ’s misconception of beauty as her only value‚ and also the ways in which Arnold Friend‚ a potential rapist and murderer‚ manipulates and takes advantage of Connie ’s vanity. Connie is a fifteen year old girl who knows the extent to which her beauty can be used to her
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“If” by Rudyard Kipling‚ he masks himself with the face of a father reaching out to his son. He characterizes what would make the ideal person‚ making them seem almost holy‚ if they could accomplish all tasks addressed in the poem. Evidently‚ Kipling tries to rely to the audience through his tone and well put together examples‚ just the same as a father would do for a son‚ a roadmap to life and to the standards that one should hold within a society. Within this poem by Kipling‚ his mask
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A “Christmas Carol” is an engaging social commentary written in the form of a novella‚ which outlines the plight of the poor‚ with the intention of altering the views of the wealthy‚ in Victorian London society. Dickens himself was a victim of the Poor Laws which were a by-product of the industrial Revolution‚ and wrote this novella with the hope of making life more bearable for the poor. Dickens uses the appealing nature of his descriptive novella‚ in order to subtly promote a change of attitude
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