You Going‚ Where Have You Been” based in the 1960’s‚ is about a fifteen year old girl named Connie who is seduced and finally abducted by a man named Arnold Friend. The Story has underlined tones of love‚ age‚ and evil. Connie‚ the main character of the story‚ is an attractive girl in her own mind which eventually gets her into trouble with Arnold Friend. In the story “The Storm”‚ Calixta and Alcee the main characters reestablish a past relationship together. “The Storm helps to define the sexual
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In the short story Where Are you Going Where Have You been‚the main character Connie is very promiscuous and struggles with finding herself. Joyce Carol Oates takes the reader on a journey of teen rebellion turned tragic and uses Connie to show that becoming independent is not easy. Throughout the story you can interpret that Connie felt vulnerable and neglected by her family and friends. Her mother always talked about how she should be more like her older sister‚ Jane “she was so plain and chunky
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poem‚ “Dover Beach”‚ Matthew Arnold describes the seaside view of the English Channel at night through his window. He uses the waves on the pebbled beach as a metaphor for the sadness and uncertainty that he feels when he realizes that the world is moving away from religion. The image of the ocean becomes the central metaphor that ties the entire poem‚ full of allusions and emotional distress‚ together. The beginning of the poem sets a scene of peace and melancholy. Arnold describes a “Sea of Faith
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June’s name was mentioned her mother’s tone was approving‚ and if Connie’s name was mentioned it was disapproving” (Oates 495). Connie feels as if she is not appreciated within her household‚ a factor that leads her to make questionable decisions once Arnold Friend makes his appearance later on in the story. Along with her shaky relationship with her mother‚ Connie also has difficulty creating relationships with other people.
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Phileas Fogg is the main character in the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Fogg attempts to circumnavigate the late Victorian world in 80 days or less‚ for a wager of £20‚000 with members of London’s Reform Club. He takes the wager and leaves with servant Passepartout‚ vowing to return by 8:45 pm on Saturday 21 December 1872. Under suspicion of robbing the Bank of England‚ he is followed by a detective named Fix. Fogg has no idea about Fix’s true intentions and Fix‚ in order
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Chris was inside watching T.V. when a news report came on of a missing girl in his town. He thought nothing of it. It came on again and again. And then he decided something must be done. He went out on his bike with his friend Temar Boggs. They were determined to find her. After 45 minutes of searching they found a suspicious car driving slow by parks and such. When they got a closer look there was a little girl in the backseat‚ and her face matched the one on the news. They continued
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re-released in a restored and enhanced Special Edition just last month. There are many different criteria that can be used to describe Star Wars ’ appeal. Gary Arnold and Edward Rothstein‚ two movie critics who had the opportunity to review this great movie‚ explain its appeal in very much the same way. There is a difference though. Arnold reviewed the original Star Wars ’ twenty years ago and Rothstein reviewed the recent Special Edition. While they reviewed slightly different versions‚ they both
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also the meaning of the house to the town’s people of Emily’s neighborhood. “Where are you going‚ where have you been” Oates shows us how music is largely used in the text. The type of Music that both Connie and Arnold listen to is who they are. Connie uses it for her fantasy world and Arnold uses to manipulate Connie. Emily’s house that is very similar to her is a structure of a memorial‚ the only remaining of a symbolic representation of the past. The house “It was a big
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character‚ sees himself as a “real” Indian. Victor conveys resentment and anger towards his father Arnold Joseph‚ who was an alcoholic and abusive towards his family. Arnold Joseph always threatened to disappear in the movie and eventually he ran away to Phoenix Arizona. Thomas‚ the other main character in the story‚ remembers Arnold Joseph as a friendly man who saved his life from the fire. Later you learn Arnold Joseph leaves the reservation because he is racked with guilt from accidently setting the
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symbol.” The cover of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian foreshows the internal struggle Arnold has with being Indian in a white school. First of all‚ Arnold isn’t accepted anywhere he goes. In fact‚ Arnolds says‚ “I felt like somebody had shoved me onto a rocket ship and blasted me to a new planet. I was a freaky alien and there was absolutely no way to get home.” In other words‚ Arnold is not accepted by his new white classmates‚
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