Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have you been?” is a coming-of-age short story that depicts the virtually invisible barrier between adolescence and adulthood. Connie is a feisty fifteen-year-old girl that doesn’t intend to ride in the backseat for the duration of her younger years‚ unlike her older sister June‚ who her mother tends to favor throughout most of the story. Her mother causes most of the friction in the house between the two‚ mainly because “[e]verything about [Connie]
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In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Arnold Friend‚ a conniving antagonist‚ charms a naive teenager named Connie into believing he will rescue her from her inattentive family. However‚ at the story’s climax‚ Connie fears for her life yet cannot resist Arnold’s temptations. Although details of Friend’s appearance‚ speech‚ and actions should warn Connie of his evil intentions‚ through Oates’s portrayal of Friend as a devil-figure‚ Connie is easily “conned” foreshadowing
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Kohala‚ Mauna Kea‚ Hualalai‚ and Kilauea‚ it forms Hawaii (“Mauna Loa Earth’s”‚ n.d.). The physical characteristics of Mauna Loa contribute to the ongoing examinations to monitor its impact to surrounding communities and environment. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano. These volcanoes are usually composed of basalt‚ which enables them to possess a gentle slope‚ fluid and pahoehoe lava. The fluidity nature allows the volcano to not be deadly (“Geologic Hazards”‚ n.d.). The volcano consists of tholeiitic
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has one of the biggest craters of all volcanoes‚ consisting of 3‚646 feet deep. It has an 8 mile circumference and is encompassed entirely by an enormous “wall of volcanic rock 200 to 500 ft high” (Mount Kilauea). “Mount Kilauea is a low and flat shield volcano that rises only 1‚247 meters above sea level. Till date‚ the Kilauea volcano is the most active and the most visited volcano in the world” (Oak‚ By Manali). Mount Kilauea is the youngest volcano in Hawaii. It has a lava level of 740 ft. under
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’A Christmas Carol’ is a novella written by Charles Dickens which illustrates a somewhat happy Christmas story that highlights the importance of being a kind hearted person. Throughout his novella‚ Dickens’s shows the reader his intended moral of the story‚ that Scrooge’s transformation at the end of the novella is what Dickens’s hopes that our world will too surely change. This is evident throughout the novella as he depicts Scrooge (before the conversion)‚ the main character; to stand for all that
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Symbolism Shield Justification Essay I was recently assigned to create a “symbolism shield.” This shield is supposed to symbolize four aspects of our life that symbolize who we are. One needed to be our dreams/goals in life. The next was something that we value. Another was something about our identity. While the last was something we fear‚ I found it very challenging to do so. This is my justification essay‚ enjoy! The first symbol we were required to make was about something we dreamed of accomplishing
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Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is the haunting saga of a fifteen year old girl’s moral struggles that has resonated with readers since the story’s initial publication. Arnold Friend is a mystery of a character; his origins and nature have been debated time and time again. The real answer is that there is no real answer‚ and Arnold Friend is a character with a nature entirely up to the individual interpretation of any one reader. It can certainly be agreed
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The protagonist of Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is a vain and stubborn girl named Connie. Fifteen years old‚ she believes beauty is everything and is nothing short of rebellious‚ maintaining two different personas: one for at home with her family and one for going out with her friends. One night out with her girl friends‚ Connie spots a young man watching her. He promises to come get her. The next day‚ the man comes to Connie’s house‚ keeping his word‚ and spends
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The Shield of Achilles W. H. Auden Analysis of the poem: The Shield of Achilles is a poem of nine stanzas where the author W.H.Auden has used an episode from the famous Homeric epic ‘Iliad’‚ as the name suggests. Achilles as we know was the greatest hero of the Trojan War and his shield as mentioned here has its reference in the book eighteen of the Iliad. There Thetis‚ the sea goddess and Achilles’ mother requests Hephaestus the divine blacksmith to make a shield for Achilles whose armor has
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How Does Carol Ann Duffy Convey How Grief Changes Over Time In Mrs Lazarus The poem Mrs Lazarus‚ by Carol Ann Duffy‚ portrays a woman (Mrs Lazarus) going through the stages of grief after her husband passes away. In this essay‚ I will be exploring the ways in which Duffy conveys how grief changes over time. The poem begins with Mrs Lazarus’s state of anguish over her husband’s death. The words “howled‚ shrieked‚ clawed” evoke a sense of rawness in the reader‚ and the image that comes to mind
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