Joyce Carol Oates has been a literary genius‚ which is one of the many reasons I decided to go to her event at Clowes Auditorium. I have also recently read her book‚ Black Water‚ which was an interesting read. It was a fictional telling of the Chappaquiddick Scandal that had happened several years before I was born. One the aspects of Black Water I particularly appreciated was that she took a real life event and created a fictional story around it. At this reading‚ on September 28 2015‚ she read
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When I was 8 years old my family and I went to knotts berry farm. Being a small kid the time‚ I barely reached the height minimum to board. When I got on‚ I had to share a seat and lap bar with my dad and we didn’t put the seat belt on correctly. When the ride started‚ I could feel me slide around and my body lift off the seat. The whole ride I ended up hugging the lap bar‚ that wasn’t even pushing on my legs‚ in hopes that I would not fly off the seat. With this experience my mood transformed
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[ ] as he is very potent with such spirits‚ abuses me to damn me" (William Shakespeare). The Devil has been a theme in writings for decades; authors have played with the symbolism of the Devil in their characters to add depth to their writing. Joyce Carol Oates‚ an accredited short story writer‚ has received numerous awards for her works. Her writing style is captivating; grabbing the reader ’s undying attention as they enter her world; a world including violence‚ rape‚ murder‚ and the good ol ’ Devil
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Alcantar Prof. Gurfield English 102 5/ 20/ 14 What Motivated Joyce Carol Oates to Become a Gothic Writer? It is common in many gothic writers to have a dark past‚ using their writing as an outlet for coming to terms with their experiences. One of the most notable contributors to American gothic literature is Joyce Carol Oates. She lived a happy childhood in a small farming community‚ and attended the Catholic Church with her family. Oates has shown exemplary talent in writing even before she learned
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Jodelis Diaz Joyce Carol Oates is a very distinguished American writer but is known worldwide. She has produced novels‚ plays‚ short stories‚ and poetry. Oates is known for dark stories‚ brutality that her characters endure‚ and how she puts her personal life into these stories. Four sources that I have provided show how her stories connect with her life and why they are so dark. My first source‚ “The ‘I‚’ Which doesn’t Exist‚ is Everything” written by Jonne V. Creighton gives in depth information
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Joyce Carol Oates uses powerful imagery in the short story‚ such as the idea of love‚ dishonest smile‚ and Connie’s dissociative state. In the idea of love‚ she uses vivid language to explain Connie’s daydream. The actual desires where not yet tied to concrete the acts or a specific man. Connie’s is being attracted to the idea of love and sex confusing fantasy and reality. The author helps the reader to visualize on how girl’s discrete experiences fading into a deeper impulse. Connie being in the
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Literal Analysis of “Lovely‚ Dark‚ Deep” “Lovely‚ Dark‚ Deep” is one of the 13 short stories that were written by Joyce Carol Oates in one of her literal works known as Lovely‚ Dark‚ Deep: Stories‚ which was first published in Harpers in November 2013. “Lovely‚ Dark‚ Deep” primarily focuses on the life of a former poet by the name Robert Frost. It tells how Evangeline Fife‚ a young journalist‚ goes to interview Frost during the summer of 1951. As Fife arrives at Frost’s home‚ she finds him sleeping
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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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When I was home alone for a week‚ I spent most of the nights staying up playing video games. In the middle of the night‚ around 2 am‚ I dozed off for about thirty minutes and woke up to my dogs barking. So I looked to my left out the window at the street and there was a man or boy standing outside in the driveway. So I immediately set the alarm‚ but after I set the alarm and went to see if was he still there‚ he wasn’t. So after that I stayed up for the rest of the night‚ until one of my siblings
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aren’t real‚ or for a parent to watch as their son or daughter make life changing decisions. Decisions like which colleges to go to‚ or to decide to marry their high school sweet heart. A teenager’s loss of innocence is the focal point of Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where are you going? Where have you been?” featuring the main protagonist‚ Connie. Connie is forced to face the ordeal of becoming an adult at the age of fifteen in a matter of minutes. She spurns her parents in an effort to be
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