Ryan McNeal Professor Glover English 101 – Midterm 7 October 2010 “Three Girls” Midterm Joyce Carol Oates wrote the story “Three Girls” in 2002. The story actually takes place on “one snowy evening in 1956” (77). The initial characters in the story are “two NYU girl-poets” (77)‚ but later the reader is introduced to another character that changes the entire story. The two poets are the narrator and the reader who is spoken of using the word “you”. The point of view is first person‚ but can
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The Lady with the Pet Dog Joyce Carol Oates The Lady with the Pet Dog Joyce Carol Oates The Lady with the Pet Dog Terms Stream-of-consciousness technique: A technique in which the author takes a reader inside a character’s mind to reveal perceptions‚ thoughts‚ and feelings on a conscious or unconscious level Point of view: Refers to who tells the story and how it is told‚ most notably governing whether a story is told in first- or third-person
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Emerson V.S Oates Compare and Contrast: Different views on Nature In class out of the three essays we read I choose to do a compare-contrast between Ralph Waldo Emerson’s and Joyce Carol Oates’s essays. I choose these two because they both had different feels towards nature. Oates is against nature and Emerson is about becoming one with nature. Even though both have different meaning‚ both Oates and Emerson successfully uses rhetorical strategies such as appeal to credibility‚ emotion‚ and
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Name Subject Date The Motives of Fateful Meeting in Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “In the Region of Ice” In her short story “In the Region of Ice”‚ Joyce Carol Oates portrays the complexity of human characters‚ thus revealing the most intimate and hidden movements of human soul. In the given story‚ Oates intentionally makes the opposites collide‚ interact‚ and coexist‚ despite all seeming differences and conventions. And the main protagonists – Sister Irene and Allen Weinstein –
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November 2012 Joyce Carol Oates‚ The Author of "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Many critics have found that the possibility of the psychological changes of a teenager is a discussable topic to learn and argue about. Connie‚ the young teenage girl in the story of “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” faces an unpredictably-dangerous situation
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In this story‚ Oates writes about Connie who is a fifteen-year-old girl who‚ like most‚ notices her good looks in the mirror. Her mother has never approved of her and her actions and compares her to Connie’s older sister‚ June‚ who is twenty-four. June lives at home and works at Connie’s high school as a secretary (Oates‚ 1). Connie and her friends enjoy going to the movies‚ at least that is what she tells her father. They really go to a restaurant across the street to meet boys. Connie met a guy
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throwing the numbers 33‚ 19‚ and 17 and how Mark Robson misinterpreted them. He tells of how his biblical reference to Judges and Genesis is incorrect. His sole purpose in writing his essay is to explain how Robson screwed up. He uses quotes from Oates short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?” to support his thesis statement. Some of the points he makes are how the numbers 33‚ 19‚ and‚ 17 add up to be 69‚ which in French is ‘six- a – neuf’ and is used as a common sex symbol rather than
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love and rewards. This is no exception between Nola and her mother Mrs. Dietrich‚ characters in “Shopping by Joyce Carol Oates. Nola is obviously trying to spread her wings and fly into a young woman‚ however; Mrs. Dietrich is having a really hard time letting her go. In Oates short story one is exposed to the hardship that a mother has in watching her daughter transition from a girl into a young woman. The shopping trip allows Mrs. Dietrich to see her daughter as child once again and hide the new
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one of them is being a single mother. In the short story‚ “Shopping” by Joyce Carol Oates there is no exception to modern day hardships that come along the road of motherhood. The turbulence in Nola and Mrs. Dietrich relationship is shown during their shopping trip to the mall where Nola hardly speaks to her mother. Mrs. Dietrich refuses to let go of the child inside Nola. Nola was once an awkward girl‚ overweight‚ unhappy. She was prone to sharing her random knowledge when she was younger
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How Joyce Carol Oates Life Affected her Work I. The novels "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" and "Life After High School" relayed Joyce Carol Oates belief that straying from a sheltered life leads to a ruined one. A. Her works delayed this theme through connotation. B. Although it was only hinted at‚ her belief in obedience was rooted deep in her stories. II. Oates farm-life‚ small town upbringing taught her not to stray from the strict discipline she lived by
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