the suit--the smell of burned matches. The smell of sulfur. The man in the black suit was the Devil.” (King) A common theme among depictions of The Devil is that of unusual physical attributes. The Devil is depicted in three different stories (Joyce Carol Oates’ ‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown’‚ and Steven King’s ‘The Man In The Black Suit’) in three different ways‚ yet each description bares remarkable similarities in some aspects to the next
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one realizes that not everything in the world is the way it was thought to be‚ the world crumbles into pieces‚ but how does it happen? Joyce Carol Oates portrays an amazing detailed moment of theft of chastity‚ or at least what is left of it‚ in "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been?" With symbolic imagery‚ major bibliomancy‚ and extreme personal conflict Oates easily manages to get her point across of the complete loss of innocence. A constant image that is brought to the reader’s creative
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There are numerous of similarities between a song called “It’s all over now‚ baby blue” by Bob Dylan and a short story name “Where are you going. Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates. The similarities between the song and the story is that they both share a common theme of being forced or getting into something mysterious. Through the short story Arnold Friend tried to influence Connie into escaping her father’s house and going away with him. It was almost as if Connie was forced by Arnold
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In Joyce Carol Oates ’ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" critics argue whether the character of Arnold Friend‚ clearly the story ’s antagonist‚ represents Satan in the story. Indeed‚ Arnold Friend is an allegorical devil figure for the main reason that he tempts Connie‚ the protagonist‚ into riding off with him in his car. Oates characterizes Arnold Friend at first glance as "a boy with shaggy‚ black hair‚ in a convertible jalopy painted gold"(581). She lets the reader know that Arnold
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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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comedic a story begins‚ the ending is what determines what type of story was told (thus what genre it falls in). This concept of endings is greatly exemplified through the comparison of the short story Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates and the film the story was based on called Smooth Talk. Both works contain an abundance of similarities but‚ due to slight yet critical changes made‚ the two stories become very different in their underlying themes/genre. The two stories differ
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inspired Joyce Carol Oates who often based her stories on news to write a story about the murders. About 20 years later‚ this short story was brought to the silver screen by Joyce Chopra. Smooth Talk is an adaption of Oates’ short story‚ however‚ more details were added into the movie in order to give the audience a better idea of what the story was about. The descriptions of Charles Schmid and his victims from Don Moser’s article influenced Joyce Carol Oates’ short story. However‚ Joyce Chopra’s
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You Been? “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about an average fifteen year old girl who is not unlike many other girls her age‚ she is self-absorbed‚ and has a “Nervous giggling habit of craning her neck and glancing into the mirror‚ or checking other people’s face’s to make sure her own was all right.”(Oates‚ 388) The story takes place in Middle America. Oates wrote “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” in the 1960’s‚ she was inspired
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girl that is haunted by her good looks and cryptic behaviors. Inspired by a Life article of a serial killer‚ Oates created the story to: “It was not the number of murders that intrigued me‚ but the disturbing fact that a number of teenagers –from “good” families—aided and abetted his crimes” (Oates 68). Her interpretation of the murder of Alleen Rowe closely resembles the storyline Oates portrays. “The parallels between “Where Are You Going?” and the Rowe account are so numerous that Oater’s borrowing
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Adida 1ere ES.1 Lucie Review of Criticism: “Mirror” of Sylvia Plath. Freedman‚ William. “ The Monster in Plath’s ‘Mirror‚’ “ in Papers on Language and literature‚ Vol 29‚ No. 2 Spring‚ 1993 pp.152-66. William Freedman describes “Mirror” as a search for the self‚ to discover one self in the person of the mirror. The fish that appears in the mirror is the dark
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