one realizes that not everything in the world is the way it was thought to be‚ the world crumbles into pieces‚ but how does it happen? Joyce Carol Oates portrays an amazing detailed moment of theft of chastity‚ or at least what is left of it‚ in "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been?" With symbolic imagery‚ major bibliomancy‚ and extreme personal conflict Oates easily manages to get her point across of the complete loss of innocence. A constant image that is brought to the reader’s creative
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inspired Joyce Carol Oates who often based her stories on news to write a story about the murders. About 20 years later‚ this short story was brought to the silver screen by Joyce Chopra. Smooth Talk is an adaption of Oates’ short story‚ however‚ more details were added into the movie in order to give the audience a better idea of what the story was about. The descriptions of Charles Schmid and his victims from Don Moser’s article influenced Joyce Carol Oates’ short story. However‚ Joyce Chopra’s
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comedic a story begins‚ the ending is what determines what type of story was told (thus what genre it falls in). This concept of endings is greatly exemplified through the comparison of the short story Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates and the film the story was based on called Smooth Talk. Both works contain an abundance of similarities but‚ due to slight yet critical changes made‚ the two stories become very different in their underlying themes/genre. The two stories differ
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST OF TWO TALES Joyce Carol Oates “The Girl With the Blackened Eye” was a narrative depicting a story about a teenage girl who had experienced tragedy at the age fifteen. The narrator‚ the character had endured what is believed to be eight days of physical and mental abuse from her abductor. She was violated and ripped of all her value. Oates displayed graphic and realistic detail so that the reader would have a clear understanding and visual of what had occurred. In William Faulkner’s
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girl that is haunted by her good looks and cryptic behaviors. Inspired by a Life article of a serial killer‚ Oates created the story to: “It was not the number of murders that intrigued me‚ but the disturbing fact that a number of teenagers –from “good” families—aided and abetted his crimes” (Oates 68). Her interpretation of the murder of Alleen Rowe closely resembles the storyline Oates portrays. “The parallels between “Where Are You Going?” and the Rowe account are so numerous that Oater’s borrowing
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The decline of the societal and cultural values during 1960s can be seen through Joyce Carol Oates’‚ “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?” The story‚ which narrates the fatal destiny of fifteen year old Connie‚ shows the rise of a pop-culture/music guided society‚ it also shows the rise of the sexual revolution and the disregard for women‚ and the negligence of parents at the time. In the story the devil is represented by ARNOLD FRIEND‚ who at the end of the story seduces Connie into her own
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Adida 1ere ES.1 Lucie Review of Criticism: “Mirror” of Sylvia Plath. Freedman‚ William. “ The Monster in Plath’s ‘Mirror‚’ “ in Papers on Language and literature‚ Vol 29‚ No. 2 Spring‚ 1993 pp.152-66. William Freedman describes “Mirror” as a search for the self‚ to discover one self in the person of the mirror. The fish that appears in the mirror is the dark
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You Been? “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about an average fifteen year old girl who is not unlike many other girls her age‚ she is self-absorbed‚ and has a “Nervous giggling habit of craning her neck and glancing into the mirror‚ or checking other people’s face’s to make sure her own was all right.”(Oates‚ 388) The story takes place in Middle America. Oates wrote “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” in the 1960’s‚ she was inspired
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Analysis for “Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates’ short story is a complete fiction in the sense that it utilizes all its elements without deemphasizing one for the other. Oates uses point of view‚ setting‚ conflict‚ character‚ and symbol equally well to convey her theme. Oates applies these elements of fiction to give readers a better understanding of the American teenager and to show how a girl is psychologically manipulated by predators. It is evident from the first
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piece of literature they have ever read. In this semester of Literature 221‚ I was given the opportunity to read works from many different genres‚ time periods‚ and styles of writing. Some of which‚ like Emily Dickinson’s Life I and Life XLIII‚ Joyce Carol Oates’ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚ and Sherman Alexie’s What You Pawn I Will Redeem I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from. While others such as Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River‚ Mark Twain’s excerpt When The Buffalo Climbed a
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