“Where are you going‚ where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates represents emotional abuse in relationships and how easy it is to manipulate young minds. Connie is a beautiful‚ self indulgent 15 year old girl. Her mother is very overbearing and praises her 24 year old sister‚ June‚ more than her. June is everything that Connie isn’t. She works hard to make money on her own‚ helps her parents around the house‚ and is mature and independent. Connie strives to receive attention and praise that her
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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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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the major external almost most of the story. At the beginning‚ the narrator introduces Connie’s family‚ her mother‚ her father and her sister June. He describes a little bit of the relationship between Connie and his family and as I comprehend as I read the story‚ Connie has bad relationship with her family. Arnold Friend and his friend are characters that initiate the main conflict of the story. During the story‚ we can identify
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our personality is fantasy oriented and irrational. Joyce Carol Oates places Arnold in her short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Arnold Friend represents the id in Connie’s personality. Everything Connie wishes about her life is exactly what Arnold represents. Arnold sets Connie free and gives her the things she has
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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. While Joyce Carol Oates had many inspirations for writing this story‚ one of the most dominant was Charles Schmid. Schmid‚ or “Smitty” as his friends called
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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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that you will wake up out of your sleep just to make sure they aren’t real. Nightmares are the ones that really make you do it though. They are so scary. You can have a nightmare about a monster‚ someone dying‚ or maybe even somebody breaking into your house. I have had plenty of nightmares‚ but there is one that I really want to talk about. My all-time worst nightmare was my whole family dying. It was the scariest thing that has ever happened. Luckily it was just a dream though. One night I was
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share the same interests as a female to benefit his efforts of being with her. Human sexuality even defines what attributes are desired and considered attractive. For example‚ when Jennifer Lopez‚ a famous actress‚ debuted her voluptuous curves every man and woman considered her amble bottom to be the epiphany of today’s sexual desires. Human sexuality can benefit the person using their sexuality to gain
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distinctive transitions throughout their lifetime. It could be as simple as moving from one side of town to the other. While at other times‚ a change can be as major as transitioning from childhood to adulthood. For much of the 20th century in America‚ the dynamics of communication among parents and their children was not fundamental. “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” written by Joyce Carol Oates introduces these “ills” of the 20th century to be examined in a more psychological depth. This ominous
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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 gathering
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