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 mysterious boy she saw the other night while hanging out
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Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been Analysis The story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” written by Joyce Carol Oates has a different‚ yet catching title. The title plays strongly into the characters. One of the main character Connie really relates to the title. Her mom wants her to be this perfect little girl‚ whereas Connie likes the attention of guys and to be a little more on the rebel lifestyle. Connie never tells her mom “where she is going‚ or where she has been” when she
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Introduction The Bandon Group is a family owned distributor of copiers‚ electronic printers‚ faxes and other office equipment who provides high quality equipment and superior customer service at cost effective prices. Their continued success‚ beginning in 1972‚ led them to expand into information systems consulting‚ document outsourcing‚ and document management services‚ by 1994. After experiencing exponential growth due to their good reputation‚ they found that they had outgrown their current
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A part of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory is shown through one of Joyce Carol Oates’ characters. The psyche is made up of three parts: the id‚ ego‚ and superego. The id is the primitive and impulsive component of the human psyche. The ego and superego help us make smarter decisions because if we only made decisions based on the id everything would get chaotic. The id is also known as the pleasure principle‚ and reality does not affect it. This component of our personality is fantasy oriented
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Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where are you going‚ where have you been?”‚ Oates tells the story of a young girl named Connie‚ who is vain‚ self-centered‚ rude to her parents‚ and in an incredible hurry to grow up. She has two different personalities‚ “one for home‚ and one for anywhere that was not home.” Everything about her including her smile‚ her laugh‚ and her walk transforms as soon as she steps out her front door. Connie‚ the protagonist of the story‚ wants to be a part of the world of “big kids” until
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Have you ever had a nightmare that is so realistic it speeds up your heart rate and takes your very breath away? In Joyce Carol Oates’s 1966 “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ she tells a story of a teenager by the name of Connie. Connie has a fate of being kidnapped by a strange man that seems to know everything about her. Connie is a typical adolescent with a vivid imagination and a difficult‚ unstructured home. She is at a delicate time in her life of transitioning to find her “own”
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Tel/Fax: (036)6210042 loc 255 COMMITTEE ON REORGANIZATION Committee Report SUBJECT MATTER: Request of Honorable Governor Victor A. Tanco for the Passage of an Ordinance Changing or Re-titling the Therein Specified Twelve (12) Positions in the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian DATE OF REFERRAL: 13 August 2014 TO: THE HONORABLE PRESIDING OFFICER & MEMBERS OF THE 7TH SANGGUNIANG PANLALAWIGAN OF CAPIZ The Committee on Reorganization‚ to which was referred the abovementioned subject
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There has been great controversy surrounding the existence of Marco Polo throughout history‚ as either fact or legend. There have been questions surrounding whether Marco Polo was the first European who traveled to China. This essay will discuss why Marco Polo’s journey is a fact. People ask why Marco Polo is considered as fiction. It was really difficult for him to prove if he was telling the truth. As to whether he was a real person and if he was actually the first European to travel to China
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shoulders rigid with excitement‚ and listened to the music that made everything so good: the music was always in the background like music at a church serve‚ it was something to depend on.” This paragraph in the short-story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ is a look into how the author Joyce Carol Oates views adolescent values. She parallels religion and religious practices with the main character’s Saturday nights. Oates carefully designed this paragraph to illustrate a social gathering
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Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer who has published over forty novels. Most of her novels are graphic and many of them depict death. In her short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Oates tells the story of Connie‚ a fifteen year old girl. Like in many of her previous novels Connie dies‚ or the reader is led to believe she does. Oates was inspired by Bob Dylan’s song “ It’s All Over Now‚ Baby Blue”‚ Charles Schmid‚ and from the book of Judges chapter 19 verse 17 in the Bible.
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