In‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates shares a story about a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who encounters Arnold Friend‚ a predator whose first words to Connie are‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby” (Oates). One day‚ while Connie is home alone‚ she receives an unexpected visitor from the mysterious boy she saw the other night while hanging
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Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer who has published over forty novels. Most of her novels are graphic and many of them depict death. In her short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Oates tells the story of Connie‚ a fifteen year old girl. Like in many of her previous novels Connie dies‚ or the reader is led to believe she does. Oates was inspired by Bob Dylan’s song “ It’s All Over Now‚ Baby Blue”‚ Charles Schmid‚ and from the book of Judges chapter 19 verse 17 in the Bible.
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One story from the short story unit that depicts impossibilities is “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been.” Connie’s vanity is not abnormal; many teenagers who are her age and attractive act the same way. The impossibility of the story appears in the form of Arnold Friend. Whether he is Satan‚ a serial killer‚ Jesus‚ Bob Dylan‚ or none of the above‚ his presence seems odd. Arnold Friend seems to know too much about Connie’s life to simply be a stalker. He know that the rest of Connie’s family
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the place‚ where he would like to live. Some people prefer living in the city and other prefer living in the village‚ but what is really the best for us? First of all we should define our terms of reference. Village- means a group of houses with a church‚ school and some shops in the countryside and city- means a place‚ where people live and work and it contains many houses‚ shops‚ places of entertainment‚ etc. Living in the city brings to everybody a lot of advantages. In city you have a lot of
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thin shoulders rigid with excitement‚ and listened to the music that made everything so good: the music was always in the background like music at a church serve‚ it was something to depend on.” This paragraph in the short-story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ is a look into how the author Joyce Carol Oates views adolescent values. She parallels religion and religious practices with the main character’s Saturday nights. Oates carefully designed this paragraph to illustrate a social
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Are You Beautiful? How do you judge if someone is beautiful the first time you see him or her? The most popular answer you may find is by physical appearance. Nowadays‚ the media greatly influences women’s point of view on beauty by displaying the idea that outer beauty is the only thing of all through images of good looking women in advertisements. The media teaches girls at a young age that physical attributes are all you need to get by in life by exposing them to beauty television shows like child
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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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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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The black pirate hat danced around in the air‚ weaving and bobbing to some Disneyland music. Attached to it was my head and the rest of me‚ being dragged along on this wild ride. The only sounds I heard were ones of trumpets soaring higher and higher‚ trying to hit an absurdly high note. The pirate hat and the warm Florida night had taken control‚ and my self-consciousness went right out the window. I danced‚ not greatly or with any skill whatsoever‚ but I danced. For that one night‚ at the end of
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from the top of the swaying bridge over the Yuba River‚ ready to leap and never look back. I close my eye and feel a single hot tear slide down my goosebumped face. Everything seems to stop for just a moment‚ a single‚ beautiful moment where I feel like I can fly. Where I feel safe. Protected. But the moment always passes‚ and it flies away as quickly as it came. I turn to my mission and look down. The rushing river beckons to me. My final resting place. I take a deep breath. My knees bend and…
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