Wrong Impressions The short story‚ “Where Are You going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates explains how a young girl was struggling to find herself. Oates writes about a girl named Connie who was 16 years old and was lost in a world of fantasy. Connie had a split personality/image while at home and when she was out with her friends. Living in a world of fantasy‚ Connie would ignore her family by tuning them out and being distant. Connie would constantly be in front of the mirror admiring
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Miller 1 Timothy B. Miller Prof. Nicholas Young LITR-221 June 23‚ 2013 Where Have You Been‚ Where Are You Going: A. Friend’s View. His name was Arnold Friend. He was getting older but still liked the young ladies around town. Arnold came from a broken home. His father had been in prison since right after his birth for some reason or another and his mother did her best to raise him courting a string of good-for-nothing losers who were in and out of her life faster than crap through a goose
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"What do you want to be when you grow up?" It is such a typical question‚ yet it compels children to venture into their innocent minds and let them imagine the world full of possibilities and encouragements. Their responses vary‚ ranging from superheroes to the President of the United States. But how would the little ones react when they were told‚ "You are not talented or smart enough. Try again." Their dreams would be shattered into millions of pieces and their hopes would be lost forever. Plummeting
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than life in my eyes. She was bright skinned‚ tall and everyone seemed to flock to her. She made me feel small without even knowing her. I was having trouble finding my classroom number on the blacktop where my class was supposed to line up. I completely gave up after a few minutes mainly
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In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” by Joyce Oates‚ the audience explores the story of Connie‚ a normal teenage girl‚ who meets Arnold Friend‚ a seemingly harmless character at first‚ but we later come to find out that he has been stalking her and Arnold
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If You Ever Read This‚ Know That You Changed Me It’s so hard to only feel one particular emotion for extended period of time. Life is symmetrically separated by a thin line‚ one side is beautiful and the other is full of horror. My life is not in any way symmetrical. The pieces are not split equally‚ there is no pattern‚ only different shapes stitched back together to form one again. I would not let anyone help put back the pieces of my life together‚ because I thought I’d mold myself. That’s what
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what it is you want to be when you grow up‚ most children do not respond with "a career in financial services". Like most children‚ I responded with reference to jobs that seemed fun at the time. My first choice was a typewriter and translator‚ second naturally a pianist‚ but the third and most important choice was a computer engineer because I like computer‚ typing‚ translating a work and playing piano. If I were a computer engineer‚ I will don’t have much work.
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Connie is trying really hard to be an adult. Part of being an adult for her‚ involves having men be sexually attracted to her. However‚ there is just one problem. Connie is still a teenager‚ therefore she remains dependent on adults and her family. Despite the constraints of still being a child for all intents and purposes‚ Connie does her best to assert her independence and being adult. Connie actually works pretty hard on trying to show that she
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She woke up to the sight of her small but spacious bedroom. As she got up from bed the burning sun beam through the window down on her‚ causing gold blindness. She walks around her mess of clothes on the floor and walk to the bathroom to brush her teeth. After she finished brushing her teeth‚ she walks to the neat‚ tumblr‚ fresh white painted bedroom to wake her sister up to get to school on time. She shrugs her while saying “wake up”. Her sister woke up with a messy frizzy hair and reply with a
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ the main character‚ Connie‚ is on the brink of adulthood and is experimenting with the sexual freedom that comes with it. On the weekends‚ Connie and her friend go to the mall or the diner and pursue older boys with which they will slip into dark alleys or cars. One night‚ when leaving the diner to go hang out with a boy‚ a man in a gold convertible catches Connie’s eye and says to her‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby”. Later in the story‚ Connie is tanning outside
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