“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” should not be read through a fantasy/allegorical lens‚ but through a lens of reality. Reading it through the former limits the potency of the story. Everything that takes place in the story is believable‚ and in fact‚ many details of the story are based on real events. Arnold Friend is based on Charles Schmid‚ a real life serial killer who was responsible for the murder of three young girls. Schmid was arrested in 1965 for the rape and murder of Allen Rowe;
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seem to think of any danger that might arise from the car. Any aware person would lock the door and have the phone ready to call the police but not this girl. This girl is easily lured into a trap and taken away from everything she loved. This girl is the protagonist‚ Connie‚ from Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been.” Rather than heed the gut feeling most readers have at this moment in the story‚ Connie ignorantly emerges from her house and engages the stranger‚ Arnold
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“Where are you going‚ where have you been.”‚ leaves us with the question can we handle such a change? Good and evil‚ yin and yang‚ the idea of everything and everyone having two opposite sides has been talked about by humans for centuries and that’s just what Oats is commenting on throughout the story starting with the main character Connie. An average teenage girl living in a limbo of two worlds
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My favorite book is The Da Vinci code The local newspaper is the Marin Independent Journal‚ one article they have online right now is “ Suspect in Novato market burglary arrested in Vallejo.” One very bad show is Keeping up with the Kardashians. In my pinion‚ the best Edgar Allan poe short story is the “Gold Bug.” One of Shel Silverstein’s poems is “Peanut-Butter Sandwich.” If I could perform a play live it would be Hamlet. Punctuating Titles My favorite movie is Reservoir Dogs by Quentin
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Have you ever bullied or been bullied? If you have bullied or been bullied then you should know how bullying feels like. Bullying is very negative and creates major problems for our society. Nothing good comes out of bullying. It could very well change or ruin a person’s life. In fact‚ it does ruin many people’s lives. Kids can be mentally scarred if they are teased often. Even worse‚ they could be killed or fatally injured if the bullying gets extreme. There are many causes for bullying which must
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You and I In life‚ everyone has their own set of moral values and ethics by which they abide. These values are different and original to everyone but just because we have different morals and values‚ does that make us wrong? In terms of Oedipus‚ his morals and ethics are very different from many people and in many ways would be frowned upon. In Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus has to make many hard and difficult decisions throughout the book but there are 3 that stand out to me. They are when Oedipus
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Speech Laboratory can be an excellent means to give young people practice in public speaking‚ listening‚ and note-taking‚ as well as a host of other skills. It maximized the student’s ability to communicate effectively. Through various trainings and activities‚ members of this club will improve in all aspects especially in social‚ intellectual‚ and emotional part. The Speech Lab is open for all interested students of ICI in all year levels. This facility will help our students to develop their
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Are You Going Where Have You Been?” In the story‚ repetition and strands of music take on a role of a character for Connie‚ offering a safe haven for a troubled girl. Throughout the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?”‚ Oates uses the element of strands and repetition of music to create a safe haven for Connie in which she can escape. The theme from a 1950’s song “It’s all Over Now‚ Baby Blue.” By Bob Dylan connects to the theme of escaping from “Where Are You Going? Where have you
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The short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?‚” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is a tale about a teenage girl making the journey from her known world into something she has never experienced before. The main character lives the normal teenage life listening to the latest music and going out with her friends to the mall. “They must have been familiar sights‚ walking around the shopping plaza in their shorts and flat ballerina slippers that always scuffed the sidewalk” (753). One night with her
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Where are you Going‚ Where have you been? Is a short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story involves a 15 year old girl named Connie that is rebelling against her mother’s whishes. Connie often rides with her friends to a shopping plaza to hang out and meet other people. One evening while she is out with her friends she leaves with a boy named Eddie. On the way to Eddie’s car she sees a stranger in a convertible that tells her “Gonna get you‚ baby”. Then one Sunday after missing church Connie’s
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