“Where have you been‚ Where are you going?” Joyce Carol Oates describes ‚ the main character Connie to be a rebellious teenager‚ she loses her childhood innocence when she gives up her virginity to Arnold Friend. Annotated bibliography Connie is portrayed to be lacking in self esteem and has feelings of worthlessness which is why she makes the decision‚ possibly fatal‚ like befriending Arnold friend. Johnson‚ Greg. Understanding Joyce Carol Oates‚ 1987: 101-02Johnson “interprets the story as
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Comparison and Contrast: "The Lady with the Pet Dog" Have you ever read a story and wondered if it would be different with a different point of view. Well with the story “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Anton Chekhov and Joyce Carol Oates‚ we get a different point of view from both authors. Though there are similarities and differences in both stories the purpose of them only becomes clear when the two stories are read and compared. There are tons of differences that we could focus on but‚ we are
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Jodelis Diaz Joyce Carol Oates is a very distinguished American writer but is known worldwide. She has produced novels‚ plays‚ short stories‚ and poetry. Oates is known for dark stories‚ brutality that her characters endure‚ and how she puts her personal life into these stories. Four sources that I have provided show how her stories connect with her life and why they are so dark. My first source‚ “The ‘I‚’ Which doesn’t Exist‚ is Everything” written by Jonne V. Creighton gives in depth information
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Have You Been? Ideas for the story lines of many motion pictures get their inspiration from other works of writing often. Books are usually a main source of inspiration for movies‚ for instance‚ the movie Smooth Talk was based off of Joyce Carol Oates’ short story Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?. Most of the time however‚ you hear that the movie did not give justice to the book. Smooth Talk is an exception to this common conception. By keeping the main thematic issues of teenage ignorance
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“You can’t change who you are. No matter how you struggle‚ some things will never change. And maybe they shouldn’t” (Thurman‚ Rob). “Identity is a powerful organizing presence in social life today” putting people into sections concerning likes and dislikes‚ culture and customs‚ separates them via social‚ economic and religious differences‚ identity makes a person‚ a person (Leve‚ Lauren). The character regarding one’s self is shaped by identity‚ how they view themselves‚ and largely how society
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In Joyce Carol Oates ’ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" critics argue whether the character of Arnold Friend‚ clearly the story ’s antagonist‚ represents Satan in the story. Indeed‚ Arnold Friend is an allegorical devil figure for the main reason that he tempts Connie‚ the protagonist‚ into riding off with him in his car. Oates characterizes Arnold Friend at first glance as "a boy with shaggy‚ black hair‚ in a convertible jalopy painted gold"(581). She lets the reader know that Arnold
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her‚ but just a pounding‚ living thing inside this body that wasn’t really hers either‚” but rather‚ Arnold Friend’s. At this point‚ Arnold had finally lured Connie to maturation into the impurity adulthood‚ exemplifying his devil like character (Oates‚ pg
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story a “Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Where are you going‚ where have you been “by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the narrators frequently uses symbolism. In the short story “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses Emily’s old house as a symbol of Emily and her mental illness‚ also the meaning of the house to the town’s people of Emily’s neighborhood. “Where are you going‚ where have you been” Oates shows us how music is largely used in the text. The type of Music that both Connie and Arnold listen to is
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the setting creates division between innocence and adulthood. In the story‚ the protagonist is a complicated and confrontational young woman named Connie. The narrator explains that “Everything about her had to sides to it” (Oates 1). Connie has two personas‚ the person she is at home and the rebellious and carefree young woman she is away from her home. Throughout the plot‚ the doorway symbolizes a threshold that Connie has to
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Module 06 Written Assignment Hall Vs. Hilbun Eliza B. Gray Rasmussen College Authors Note: This paper is being submitted on the 18th of March 2013 for the winter semester of Medical Law and Ethics section 05. Hall Vs. Hilbun The case of Hall versus Hilbun is a case in which an exploratory surgery was conducted to try to locate a possible blockage in the small bowel to alleviate abdominal pain. Mrs. Hall went into the hospital complaining of abdominal pain‚ upon being seen by doctors she
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