Where Are You Going Analysis

In the story Where are You Going, Where have you been reach out to young girls that have family issue and personal issues going on in their life. Connie is a young teenager who is self-centered and thinks that she is a grown women but still has a child mindset. She doesn’t know how much danger she is in by messing with a older man that she barely knew. Connie felt like nobody in the family careed about her so she decided to stay at home instead of going to the family barbecue. She is a shattered teenager because she thinks her experiment with boys are going be like the ones in the movies she sees. She gets involved with the wrong guys because of her father, and Connie is not loved so she looks for love somewhere else and finally Connie isn’t mature for the grown woman she is trying to be. Connie is a young blond girl wearing
Arnold and his friend Elliot pulls up at Connie house. Connie begins to talk to Arnold through the screen door and he start telling her everything he knows about her, and she doesn’t know she is dealing with a predator. Then Connie doesn’t realize that it’s someone else in the car and then Arnold tell her that the neighbor down the street is dead. Then Connie tells him that her family is going to be home soon and Arnold tells her no they are not they are on the other side of town and they will be gone for hours because they are at family barbeque.Arnold walks closer to the screen door and now Connie opens the screen door a little and she realized that Arnold is a older man. This shows that Connie believe that she was a grown woman in her mind but she is not mature enough to take in all this information that Arnold is giving her. When Connie tries to close the screen door Arnold had his foot in the door so she can’t close it in his face. Connie starts to feel dizzy and the room start to spin around her. Arnold now knows that she is weak minded and knows that he got the perfect