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    The protagonist of Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You GoingWhere Have You Been?” is a vain and stubborn girl named Connie. Fifteen years old‚ she believes beauty is everything and is nothing short of rebellious‚ maintaining two different personas: one for at home with her family and one for going out with her friends. One night out with her girl friends‚ Connie spots a young man watching her. He promises to come get her. The next day‚ the man comes to Connie’s house‚ keeping his word‚ and spends

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    that causes the reader to question events in the story‚ “Where Are You GoingWhere Have You Been?” She develops this story featuring a girl named Connie‚ who has an encounter with a boy at a restaurant that she doesn’t know. “He wagged a finger and laughed and said‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby‚” and Connie turned away…” (Oates 210). Startled Connie only saw this boy once that night‚ but the story goes on‚ and a few days later he comes to her house where she learns that the boy’s name is “Arnold Friend.” She

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    The story‚ "Where Are You GoingWhere Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates is truly littered with conventions of Psychoanalysis. Freud developed a list of defense mechanisms used by the human subconscious in order to deal with issues too intense for the conscious mind. These strategies of the psyche are translated into symbols scattered throughout this work. These symbols are expressed through the characters of Connie‚ and Arnold Friend. The first convention is denial. Denial is when the subconscious

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    Where have you Been Smooth Talking? In the short story Where Are You GoingWhere Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates‚ the lifestyle of protagonist Connie is described. Connie was a typical 15-year-old. She was outgoing‚ fun‚ and social. She had the worst relationship with her mother and her relationship with her father was not explained because he was not home much. Connie’s main concern was boys; she would do anything to meet up with them. That is not always a good idea because you never know

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    There are many similarities between the short stories "A&P" and "Where are you goingWhere have you been?" most notably their characters. Both stories contain a female protagonist‚ and a male antagonist‚ whose confrontations start out relatively normal‚ and progress to more and more surreal and twisted endings. Their main characters‚ Sammy and Connie‚ are shockingly similar‚ and yet strangely different‚ one a 15 year old wishing to be older and beautiful‚ the other An eighteen year old boy from

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    In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You GoingWhere Have You Been‚” Arnold Friend‚ a conniving antagonist‚ charms a naive teenager named Connie into believing he will rescue her from her inattentive family. However‚ at the story’s climax‚ Connie fears for her life yet cannot resist Arnold’s temptations. Although details of Friend’s appearance‚ speech‚ and actions should warn Connie of his evil intentions‚ through Oates’s portrayal of Friend as a devil-figure‚ Connie is easily “conned” foreshadowing

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    never-ending fantasy of being an adult. The seemingly carefree lifestyle of older kids seems to be impossible to wait on. 15-year-old Connie is no exception to this way of thinking. In a hurry to grow up‚ Connie‚ in Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You GoingWhere Have You Been”‚ naively executes the perfect role as an eager‚ under aged adolescent who lets her insecurities‚ dissatisfaction‚ and curiosities land her in irreversible danger. Most teenage girls in America are obsessed with their looks. If

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    Auden - Summary

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    few line of stanza stanza one Auden starts off by recreating what the present condition was like at the time of his death to create a gloomier atmosphere to get the readers attention. He does this in most of his poem‚ creating an atmosphere to get the readers attention such as now the leaves are falling fast. “Now the leaves are falling fast” Auden recreates very windy atmosphere to start of the poem‚ to set up the lament which is “Nurse’s flowers will not last;” Auden poems are always well structured

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    Where Am I Going?

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    Angela Patrice A. Gamil THY3 2BLIS Where Am I Going? Sometimes I see myself as a child‚ and the world is my playground. I aim to walk barefoot around it‚ mindless of the stains. I know I’m not always on the mountain top‚ nor above water‚ but it won’t hurt if I dream a little‚ will it? So I still want to clench my fists on things that are quite impossible to some people‚ but are possible to me. I dream of travelling to different parts of the world‚ meet different people‚ know

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    W.H. Auden

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    Auden was born 21 February 1907‚ in York‚ the son of a physician. At first interested in science‚ he soon turned to poetry. In 1925 he entered Christ Church College‚ University of Oxford‚ where he became the centre of a group of literary intellectuals that included Stephen Spender‚ Christopher Isherwood‚ C. Day Lewis‚ And Louis MacNeice. After graduation he was schoolmaster in Scotland and England for five years. In London‚ in the early 1930s‚ Auden belonged to a circle of promising young poets

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