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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Erika Villanueva “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” By Joyce Carol Oates There are things that happen when we are growing up that change us when we are grown. There are things that change us forever. Every human being is different‚ and there is a reason why . All of us had a childhood and all kinds of experiences some good‚ some bad‚ some full of joy but also others very painful. Eventually we grow childhood and mature depending of what we have gone through. The way we are able to handle
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Compare and Contrast Every day there are thousands of compare and contrasting activities‚ events and even conversations. We as humans obviously do this as obvious examples like comparing types off food‚ or clothes‚ or subliminally like acting a certain way in front of the opposite sex to be a suitable mate. The compare and contrasting can be seen in animals too‚ not just humans. Animals like male birds try to build nests for female birds to be picked as mates‚ and then the female birds compare the
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There are many similarities between the short stories "Good Country People" and "Where are you going‚ Where have you been?"‚ most notably their characters. Both stories contain a female protagonist‚ and a male antagonist‚ whose confrontations start out relatively normal‚ and progress to more and more surreal and twisted endings. Their main characters‚ Hulga and Connie‚ are shockingly similar‚ and yet strangely different‚ one a 15 year old wishing to be older and beautiful‚ the other a bitter 32 year
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Analyzing Fiction In “Where are you going‚ where have you been”‚ this story makes me frustrated with the main character Connie. She comes off to me as an immature little girl who wants to live the life of a mature woman‚ but when faced with reality she is still just a little girl. I felt Connie feels the need to rebel or act a different person when she leaves her house and in a sense lives a double life and has two personalities. In the story the author writes‚ “She wore a pull-over jersey blouse
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Compare and Contrast 1 Fighting Racism Brandon Picone Ashford University Introduction to Literature Loretta Crosson April 15‚ 2013 Fighting Racism 2 Racial discrimination has affected black people in the United States and Africa for many years. Although racial discrimination is against the law in both countries many people believe that racism still exists and there is significant evidence to support many racial discrimination claims. While
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As you watch‚ think about what these two film versions have in common. What about them is different? * Pronoun Case Presentation * Subtitle PP Presentation: General Information on Pronoun Case | * Ocean’s Eleven Original (with captions) 3 minute video trailer from the original movie filmed in 1960 * Ocean’s Eleven Remake (with captions) Now fast forward to the year 2001 and watch this trailer from the remake * Lecture - Compare / Contrast Essay * Lecture Compare/Contrast
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Clarissa Caplinger Compare and contrast: Oskar’s personality In the novel‚ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The book’s narrator‚ a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell whose father (Thomas Schell) dies from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11‚ 2001. Oskar then copes with his father missing from his life by trying to find the owner of a key he found in
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“Thank You Ma’am” and “Marigolds” are two fictional short stories that focus on two young teens. “Thank You Ma’am” was written by Langston Hughes. He was born February 1‚ 1902 In Joplin‚ Missouri and was an African-American poet‚ social activist‚ novelist‚ playwright and columnist. “Marigolds” was written by Eugenia W. Collier. She was born in 1928 in the city of Baltimore and was an African-American writer and critic. There are many similarities and differences between “Thank You Ma’am” and “Marigolds
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Compare and Contrast essay The short stories "Young Goodman Brown" and "A Rose for Emily" use a moral to show particular ideals or values through their characters choices and actions of one another. The reader is faced with a life lesson after reading "Young Goodman Brown:" you cannot judge other people. A similar moral is presented in "A Rose for Emily." The use of morals combined with elements of Romantic era writing show the stories of to be descendants both of fables and of Romance literature
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