Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” conveys the theme of good vs. evil through Connie and Arnold by creating a sympathetic character and using symbolism‚ creating a fine line between the protagonist and the antagonist. In this short story‚ the antagonist Arnold Friend is a seducting creep that seduces young‚ innocent girls to “go on a date with him”. While he is at the protagonist‚ Connie’s‚ house‚ he is persuading Connie by telling her all about herself‚ including his
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"In Mrs Tilscher ’s class" by Carol Ann Duffy is about rites of passage‚ the transition from childhood to adolescence and the things we learn at school‚ from our teachers and from our peers. Duffy writes this accessible poem using a variety of techniques that make it a memorable read. The opening stanza has no real hint of what is to come: Duffy shows us a typical day in Mrs. Tilscher ’s class:You could travel up the Blue Nilewith your finger‚ tracing the routewhile Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery
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too common in today’s day and age. In these cases‚ generally the main focus and intrigue lies with the killer rather than the victim. Once the focus is switched to the victim‚ we might see all sorts of different scenarios play out. Although Joyce Carol Oates’s‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” was inspired by real life events and reports of a serial rapist murderer‚ it can also be read as a coming of age story in which we see the victim‚ Connie‚ mature and evolve tremendously from the
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Mrs Quasimodo is a poem from the The World’s Wife collection by Carol Anne Duffy which takes characters and myths from history that focus on famous men. However‚ Duffy’s feminist view allows the reader to see the women’s‚ who were previously hidden behind these men‚ point of view. This poem focuses on the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame‚ Quasimodo is the hunchbacked bell-ringer so the poem pretends as though he has a wife. He falls in love with a beautiful Gypsy and Mrs Quasimodo starts to feel
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Marlene Dietrich‚ an absolute Icon. In this essay I am going to talk about the icon; Marlene Dietrich. I will discuss how Dietrich came to become an icon of her time. I will look at what else was happening around the time of her height of fame. I will also look into the affect Marlene Dietrich had on the fashion world then‚ and of course whether she still affects fashion today. It was clear she took Europe by storm with her looks and talent. “If she had nothing more than her voice
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Yu-Tzu Lin Instructor Emily Plicka English 101 6‚ October 2012 In Joyce Carol Oates’ story “Golden Gloves”‚ it is about the growth of a boy to becoming a man. This boy who was a born with deformed feet‚ he had couldn’t walk until 3 years old. His dad was a little shameful of him being handicapped. He didn’t like people to touch him or help him. When he was eight‚ he had a surgery on his feet. He suffered a lot of pains during his rehabilitation .His father took him to a boxing match and he fell
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Christian faith and martyrdom in recent decades is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His life is the story of a man who essentially sacrificed an opportunity for a peaceful and quiet life as a pastor for the sake of the oppressed‚ despite having no reason to do so‚ other than his own conscience. His life‚ as it will soon be explained‚ was an incredibly remarkable one‚ and one that closely demonstrated him to be among the noblest of Christian witnesses. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born February 4‚ 1906‚ in Breslau
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Men and women have different views on shopping. Women find it as an exciting‚ entertaining and fulfilling task‚ while men find shopping as an unpleasant chore. Women seem to be more fascinated by the idea of fashion and find an identity with their clothing. Men on the other hand‚ just view it as a way to clothe themselves‚ and don’t find any real meaning in it. The shopping experience as whole for men is basically just find a good deal and you’re done‚ for women it’s more about the quality and the
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The book by William Dietrich The Final Forest has highly influenced my mind. I read things that I have heard about but never heard the in depth as I read. The battle that goes on to save the Pacific Northwest last trees standing. I also learned more on how important the ecosystem is. Dietrich explains how it has been reduced which lead to the crisis of the ecosystem. The threat of disappearance of separate elements of the ecosystem is shown as the result the deforestation. Nowadays‚ tradition logging
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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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