this hard‚ or I hide‚ dream‚ pretend‚ or even lurk around. And when I do this‚ I see the road of life always comes in different chapters and scenes and I say they are all awesome! There are also thrilling parts like choosing between paths or of three and four or choosing which is which that might lead to the other side. And sometimes these choices are influenced by my own desires‚ with what I really needed most or with what are really right. If I can’t make selections‚ still I am hopeful. If I carry
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into the driveway‚ the girl doesn’t 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
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"Where are you going‚ Where have you been?" is one that has had many interpretations over there years‚ by many literary critics and readers alike‚ generating a vast list of themes and meanings to the story. Some have declared the story to be a "feminist allegory‚" while others argue that one of the main characters‚ Arnold‚ is a "savior" or "messiah figure‚" as popular figures during the 1960’s were to young girls like Connie‚ the main character. Though many interpretations have been made‚ and all
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Fiction Analysis Where are you going‚ Where have you been? The story is based in 1960s American suburbs and is told through the eyes of a teenager named Connie. The theme of the story revolves around Connie and her feelings as it is basically told through the eyes of a teenager. The reader is first introduced to the main character Connie and the theme of innocence is established. The first parts of the essay tell us how Connie does not get along with her mother or her sister. It is shown in some
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Another point about the negative effects of pesticides is that they harm animals and have some extreme impacts on their health and the survival of the species. In a journal on how the use of pesticides endangers wildlife and the environment‚ prominent author‚ investigative journalist‚ and science reporter Sonia Shah explains that seemingly benign levels of pesticides impair immune function in wildlife‚ leading to outbreaks of disease. In recent die-offs‚ millions of amphibians‚ bees‚ and bats died
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Finding Her Identity: An Analysis of “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been is about a fifteen year old girl named Connie who is searching for her independence from her mother. The exposition is in the month of July at their home‚ where Connie is being scolded by her mother about her being obsessed with her looks. Her mother says‚ “Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you’re so pretty? (171) Her mother wants her to be more
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To what extent would you agree with the view that the world of the play is not entirely evil? At the climax of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” the antihero of the play has been so consumed by his hamartia‚ “vaulting ambition”‚ that he has become a character who’s life “signi(fies) nothing” and who’s soldiers “Move only in command/ Nothing in love” . This reflects the descent into chaos of the play itself as the world appears to be completely treacherous and has lost all order by the last act of the play
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Corruption’s Effects on Life The rebellion in George Orwell’s satire Animal Farm may have sounded appealing to the animals at first -never having to work for humans again- but they didn’t see the challenges and corruption in front of them. This book focuses on allegorizing the rise of Joseph Stalin and Soviet Communism. Readers are able to pull different biblical themes and perspectives out that should convict us as believers. A strong theme in this book is corruption‚ and Orwell conveys its effects on freedom
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innocence is freedom from sin‚ moral wrong‚ or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil. At some point in everyone’s life they will eventually lose there innocence‚ it just depends on the choices they have made. In Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been.” She uses characterization and imagery to show how Connie is dealing with the loss of her innocence Oates characterization of Arnold Friend shows how Connie’s perspective of Arnold and his looks leads to the deception of who he really
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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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