- � PAGE �1� - Park � PAGE �1� "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been" Vanity can be exposed as one ’s greatest weakness. "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been"‚ a short story written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ describes Connie ’s misconception of beauty as her only value‚ and also the ways in which Arnold Friend‚ a potential rapist and murderer‚ manipulates and takes advantage of Connie ’s vanity. Connie is a fifteen year old girl who knows the extent to which her beauty can be used to her
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shown through one of Joyce Carol Oates’ characters. The psyche is made up of three parts: the id‚ ego‚ and superego. The id is the primitive and impulsive component of the human psyche. The ego and superego help us make smarter decisions because if we only made decisions based on the id everything would get chaotic. The id is also known as the pleasure principle‚ and reality does not affect it. This component of our personality is fantasy oriented and irrational. Joyce Carol Oates places Arnold in her
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A “Christmas Carol” is an engaging social commentary written in the form of a novella‚ which outlines the plight of the poor‚ with the intention of altering the views of the wealthy‚ in Victorian London society. Dickens himself was a victim of the Poor Laws which were a by-product of the industrial Revolution‚ and wrote this novella with the hope of making life more bearable for the poor. Dickens uses the appealing nature of his descriptive novella‚ in order to subtly promote a change of attitude
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Some say he is the devil‚ others claim he portrays the godly image of Bob Dylan‚ or that he is just the mere imagination of a salacious daydream in a young girl’s mind. In Joyce Carol Oates acclaimed short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ a 15-year-old girl named Connie‚ with ever growing feelings of attraction toward the opposite sex‚ has a vexing encounter with a middle-aged man who goes by the name Arnold Friend. You can’t talk about Arnold Friend‚ his train of thought‚ and intentions
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Nightmare or Reality? Joyce Carol Oates creates an inquisitive plot that causes the reader to question events in the story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where 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
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Carpet-Weavers‚ Morocco Carol Rumens By Marium Saud Japanwala Rumens‚ through the title of her poem is portraying a scene in Morocco‚ consisting of carpet weavers. This establishes a theme of work which runs throughout the poem. The title however‚ does not launch or even give a faint idea of the major theme contained in the poem‚ i.e. of social injustice and child labour. The poem begins with ’The children’‚ hence taking us by surprise. Nowhere in the title was anything about children expected
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Have you ever had a nightmare that is so realistic it speeds up your heart rate and takes your very breath away? In Joyce Carol Oates’s 1966 “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ she tells a story of a teenager by the name of Connie. Connie has a fate of being kidnapped by a strange man that seems to know everything about her. Connie is a typical adolescent with a vivid imagination and a difficult‚ unstructured home. She is at a delicate time in her life of transitioning to find her “own”
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Vijay Dorasami English 1102-002 Professor Bruce 09/30/2014 Joyce Carol Oates wrote a short story called “where are you going‚ where have you been?” One of the main character in the short story is a fifteen year old girl whose name is Connie. Connie was self-absorbed by her beauty‚ and would not listen when her mom try to council her. She rejects the role of daughter to develop her sexual persona‚ which increase when she is away from her family and home. Connie concerns were to become a young adult
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the major external almost most of the story. At the beginning‚ the narrator introduces Connie’s family‚ her mother‚ her father and her sister June. He describes a little bit of the relationship between Connie and his family and as I comprehend as I read the story‚ Connie has bad relationship with her family. Arnold Friend and his friend are characters that initiate the main conflict of the story. During the story‚ we can identify
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can be as major as transitioning from childhood to adulthood. For much of the 20th century in America‚ the dynamics of communication among parents and their children was not fundamental. “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” written by Joyce Carol Oates introduces these “ills” of the 20th century to be examined in a more psychological depth. This ominous literal piece unfolds the story of protagonist Connie‚ a self-absorbed‚ disoriented‚ beautiful fifteen-year old girl‚ living in the early 1960’s
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