The story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” is essentially about a young woman’s strive for independence‚ which eventually leads to conflict. Girls today appear as mature women and in addition‚ are put into adult situations sometimes unwillingly. Oates portrays a social issue that relates to this current society by using symbolism and characterization while taking the reader on a journey throughout the thoughts and feelings of a teenage girl. There are two main symbols the author uses
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“[Connie] had a quick‚ nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right.” (1) In the story “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” the author Joyce Carol Oates‚ deliberately shows us the level of innocence of the protagonist Connie‚ as well as the similar features an inexperienced young girl who lived in 1966 compares to those of a young girl who is raised in our era. Young teenage girls in 1966 are no different
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“Where are you going‚ Where have you been” Analysis Evette Paden Shorter University “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” is a chilling tale of rape and murder with a plot to create suspense. On a symbolic level it becomes a metaphor for simplicity and innocence. Oates’ use of literal and figurative‚ psychological and allegorical levels makes this story a powerful and fascinating story. One contributing factor to this story’s power is her depiction of the two main characters’ double
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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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Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is about a 15 year old girl named Connie. Connie is the dark blond haired girl who catches all the attention and knows she looks good. The story is somewhat journalistic in the sense that there are few extreme stylistic flourishes or complicated sentence structures. Oates’s spare style allows the images in the story to stand out in realistic coherence‚ in a way that makes one feel they have some unexplainable importance. “There’s your
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Weinberger’s article makes many interesting points about the character of Arnold Friend in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been”- the main idea being that Arnold represents Connie’s “other self”. According to the article‚ this can be observed in how Connie and Arnold are opposites in both appearance and behavior‚ and Arnold’s purpose is to induct Connie into adulthood. I disagree with the idea that Arnold is Connie. While the article gathered a lot of good evidence to support this claim‚ I
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Information Systems and Organizational Departments Information systems are typically computer based systems used within an organization to create a system consisting of the network of all communication channels used within an organization. It usually includes hardware‚ software‚ people‚ communications systems such as telephone lines‚ and the data itself (WordIQ.com‚ 2010).These systems are used to enable organization‚ data processing‚ scheduling‚ accounting‚ etc. Every department within an organization
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MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Russell Wright January 26th 2014 Part I: Group Development After reading the case study “Building a Coalition” I think that within the five-stage group-development model described in our textbook the group involved in the case is somewhere between the forming stage and storming stage‚ I can see signs of both stages at the same time. The textbook says that during the forming stage - first stage of group development - is characterized
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Ferrer‚ N PD2 Discuss the subjects in which you excel or have excelled. To what factors do you attribute your success? I done well in all of my classes this past 3 years in high school. I believe that in all of them I learned to my fullest. In a way or the other I have excelled in each of my classes. I try my best in all my classes to pass them with a B or a higher grade but not less then a B‚ I don’t like having grades below an 80 percent. I’m even passing the class I hate since I was in middle school and that is history class
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(a)Explain the role of tribunals. (b)Evaluate the extent to which tribunals have been reformed. Tribunals are an essential part of the British Legal System and are see as part of the popular Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Their main purpose was to give the public a means of settling disputes regarding their scial rights and various other areas such as employment law. For example if a person felt they were incorrectly dismissed from their employment‚ they would use a tribunal as means
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