Essay #1 2. Characterize Connie in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” and make a case for why she gives in and goes with Arnold Friend. The short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates was quite interesting. Even though it was fiction‚ I believe that it could be based on a true story. There are times that young girls get themselves into situations that they feel they cannot escape. This story is a perfect example of why teenage girls
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are you going‚ Where have you been”‚ has a lot of underlying mental issues. Joyce Carol Oates created the perfect character to receive psychoanalytic criticism. The relationships Connie forms with her family‚ friends‚ and outsiders are all affected by Connie’s issues which come to consume her future. One of Connie’s biggest faults was the recognition of her beauty. She “knew she was pretty and that was everything” (Oates 1). This constant checking of herself in mirrors to make sure she was still
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to make it a memorable one. There have been countless authors that try to create a short-short story but at the end of the day for one reason or another‚ their story was not considered a short-short. Through the critiques of Alice K. Turner‚ Joyce Carol Oates‚ and Leonard Michaels one can see how the story‚ “The Blue Bouquet‚” is able to be considered a true short-short story. A “zinger” or “snap” is what Alice K. Turner believes every well made short-short needs to have as its ending. The end
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English 102-03 Final Draft The Devil in Disguise In the short story “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the use of the symbolism of Connie’s clothes‚ her fascination with her beauty‚ Arnold Friend’s car and Arnold Friend himself help to understand the story’s theme of evil and manipulation. The story‚ peppered with underlying tones of evil‚ finds Oates writing about 15-year-old Connie‚ a pretty girl who is a little too into her own attractiveness‚ which eventually gets
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Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates there is bad parenting and it costs Connie at the end. Throughout the entire story there is little or no parenting‚ or sometimes there is a little parenting but it is not very good parenting. For example‚ “their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home‚ he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper he went to bed. He didn’t bother talking much to them” (Oates 1). So even with her parents at home it
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.Foxfire Foxfire is a page turning novel about a newly formed girl’s gang in the 1950’s. This story is written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ published by Penguin Group‚ and has 316 pages. This is a vivid novel and is a great read. On a rating scale of one to five‚ I would defiantly say this is a five! It gives amazing details that makes you believe you are in the 50’s watching these rebellious girls making their own rules and doing as they please. Margaret Ann Sadovsky‚ called ‘Legs’ by her
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Lydia Berry Mrs. Clark Period 1 January 2013 Electronic Note Cards A. Hurston‚ Zora Neale. "Sweat." The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. Oxford [England: Oxford UP‚ 1992. 352-60. Print. * A1. “Just then something long‚ round‚ limp‚ and black fell upon her shoulders and slithered to the floor beside her. A great terror took hold of her.” (Hurston) Imagery of a snake. Snakes represent evil‚ and Delia is terrified of snakes. * A2. “Two months after the wedding
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The Separation from Childhood and Entrance into Womanhood In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” Joyce Carol Oates describes a teenager’s emotional turmoil during the transition to womanhood. Connie‚ the main character of this story is a fifteen years old girl. She is in the stage to leave childhood and enter womanhood‚ which causes her behavior to change. This behavior change causes conflict (plot) between Connie and her mother. She argues with her mother all the time because
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Comparing the Contrasting Written two centuries apart‚ “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Where Are You Going; Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates are two seemingly different stories. However‚ if looked at closely‚ several elements can be tied together. Each story has a similar point of view‚ but the story is told from two different perspectives. Several themes are unique to the stories‚ but deep within similarities can be found. The authors conclude their stories in two different
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Charles Howard Schmid‚ Jr. also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson‚" was an American serial killer. In the story‚ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the character Arnold Friend was based on the serial killer in which Connie was one of the many victims he had abducted. There are many possibilities on how the author intends the readers to understand it. Such as‚ it could be a dream that Connie is having‚ in all actuality it could be real; it could send a message
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