actions such as quitting his job. In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates chooses a third person limited omniscient narrator. The narrator focuses the story on Connie and her experiences. Connie is a teenage girl
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want to be‚ but can become confused with how others may perceive them‚ and define their character. Although the story does not state that Connie was raped‚ one can infer that she was placed in an awkward and alarming situation in which she had to choose whether to fight for her adolescence or physically cross the boundaries into becoming an adult. Neither Connie nor Julie overcame their fears‚ but they managed to deal with the inevitable events and situations‚ thus‚ proving that they were becoming
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In “Sonny’s Blues‚” the narrator tells his relationship story with his drug-addicted brother‚ Sonny. Sonny is a musician who is unable to escape the ghetto‚ and a character suffered from his heroin addiction. In the absence of their parents (after their parents’ death)‚ the narrator tries to be a father figure to Sonny‚ but the father figure narrator is not able to save his brother‚ Sonny from the heroin addiction. The drug kills‚ Sonny‚ but according to the narrator‚ his sufferings were what that
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In this story by Connie Jan Maraan‚ the protagonist of the story is a ghost who died when the Tayuman LRT Station suddenly collapsed and the train came falling down on his face. According to him‚ he has seen Christ because of that incident. -Summary provided by: images.1aot.multiply.multiplycontent.com/…/PHIL.LIT%20-… (first entry that appears in Google upon searching Ghost by Connie Jan Maraan) In Connie Jan Maraan’s story entitled “Ghost”‚ she applied various symbols to express what happened
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the sunshine comes something clever and dark‚ A. Friend. When Connie meets Arnold Friend he is a stranger‚ but ironically his name is name spells a friend. I think this symbolism rests in the glaring reality of true abductions and who the perpetrator usually is. Someone they know‚ someone close. Another frightening symbolism is the Pettinger girl. Something happened to her and we never find out what‚ but the reader knows that Connie lied to her mother about association with the girl‚ a girl Arnold
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Dylan song- “It’s All Over Now‚ Baby Blue” Connie- is she dynamic character? Why or why not? Connie at Home- mom always comparing her to her older sister‚ say mom and sister are just jealous of her‚ resentful of the family but in the end she sacrifices herself for them Connie when out with friends Why does she go with Arnold Friend? Real- real people and real situation Fantastic- Arnold Friend –devil‚ at the end dream-like How does he convince Connie to go with him? Threatens her family Symbolic
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of love from the main economist in the household. She hangs out with boys and lies about it to her mom. In some moments she feels bad about her deception‚ “Connie thought‚ that it was maybe cruel to fool her [mom] so much” (391). Although she didn’t have a very good connection with her mom she still cried out for her in her time of need. Connie starts to change into the economist when Arnold friend shows up at her house. Arnold friend told her‚ “You come out here nice like a lady and give me your
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of England’s former self‚ with its cottages and large stately homes into the new industrialised England symbolised by Tevershall and the collieries. Interestingly the characterisation which appears in chapter 11 is submissive of the mining class. Connie herself imagines bearing a child from a mine worker‚ ‘children from such men! Oh god! Oh God!’. In this sense she appears
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In Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚ Arnold Friend is in love with Connie and wishes for her to come with him. He does this by using physical and psychological manipulation on her: “‘You come out here nice like a lady and give me your hand‚ and nobody else gets hurt‚ I mean‚ your nice old bald-headed daddy and mummy and
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Invents the Zero In the short story ¨Abuela Invents the Zero¨ the main theme is to appreciate your loved ones. First‚it is demonstrated when Connie’s grandmother first come to visit her and she has to borrow a coat that is way too big and it looks weird Connie said‚ ¨I tried to walk far behind them in public so that no one will think we’re together. I plan on staying very busy the whole time she´s with us so that I won’t be asked to take her anywhere.¨ (Ortiz‚4) This shows that she wants to make sure that
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