In this story‚ Oates writes about Connie who is a fifteen-year-old girl who‚ like most‚ notices her good looks in the mirror. Her mother has never approved of her and her actions and compares her to Connie’s older sister‚ June‚ who is twenty-four. June lives at home and works at Connie’s high school as a secretary (Oates‚ 1). Connie and her friends enjoy going to the movies‚ at least that is what she tells her father. They really go to a restaurant across the street to meet boys. Connie met a guy
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Lady With the Pet Dog by Joyce Carol Oates Often‚ the circumstances of a marriage can leave the people involved feeling empty and unloved. These feelings of hopelessness can lead people to make uncharacteristic choices. Adultery‚ even in a marriage without love‚ can have a dramatic effect on the people involved. For the adulterous partner‚ the feelings of guilt and anxiety can often lead to overwhelming confusion. The short story "The Lady with the Pet Dog" by Oates‚ shows how the act of cheating
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Oates ’ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend In Joyce Carol Oates ’ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" critics argue whether the character of Arnold Friend‚ clearly the story ’s antagonist‚ represents Satan in the story. Indeed‚ Arnold Friend is an allegorical devil figure for the main reason that he tempts Connie‚ the protagonist‚ into riding off with him in his car. Oates characterizes Arnold Friend at first glance as "a boy with shaggy‚ black hair‚ in a convertible
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where the one rules absolutely‚ the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy‚ but left to its own course it ends in power ’s disappearance -Hannah Arendt.” After reading the story Ace by Joyce Carol Oates it is very clear to seek out the message behind the story. What Oates writes is a story of a violent act that is unnecessary‚ and gives and inside look into how the victim feels going through each step. News today lacks the type of emotion truly needed to understand what is happening
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Reychel Buda Honors Biology 9/1/13 The growth of Bacteria Purpose; the purpose of this lab was to see how much bacteria would grow on our variables we chose to use. Hypothesis; The dirtier the variable‚ the more bacteria will grow over time. Materials; 6 Petri dishes Cotton Swabs (Q-tips) Procedure; we started with 6 different Petri dishes that had a sticky yellow-ish substance layered on the bottom. Then‚ we picked out the variables we were going to use to rub onto the yellow substance
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In “Beasts” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the totems play a significant role throughout the entirety of the novel. ( in regards to the protagonist (Gillian) in the novel.) Firstly‚ the totems are a representation of the perverse sexually deviant side in us thats kept repressed from society. Secondly‚ Gillian’s ambivalent perception of Dorcas is in perfect alignment with the way in which she views the totems.Lastly‚Gillian’s internalized feelings of inadequacy are projected onto some of the totems.The totems
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A Widow’s Story is a memoir of Joyce Carol Oates‚ dedicated to her late husband Raymond Smith. This book was gripping from the very start‚ I felt like I was getting to know Oates more as a person‚ instead of just the author to literature read for the class. Oates husband of forty-seven year of marriage passed away from a secondary infection; acquired during his hospital stay for treatment of pneumonia. She takes us on this journey with her from the beginning with the ER visit she took with Ray‚ when
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2011 Joyce Carol Oates uses characterization and the coming of age effectively in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been”‚ “Four Summers”‚ and “The Girl with the Blackened Eye”. She uses it to connect the three stories to each other. Connie and the girl in “The Girl with the Blackened Eye” are connected because they were both violated by a man. Connie and Sissie were both connected because they were both influenced by their families’ ways on how they lived their lives. Joyce Carol Oates is noted
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“Golden Gloves” Joyce Carol Oates’ story “Golden Gloves”‚ is about a premature seven month old baby who born with deformed feet‚ the tiny arches twisted‚ and his toe turned inward like fleshy claws. When he was three years old he learned to walk because he could not work. His face is misshape and look like an adult. His parents feel embarrass because he was handicapped. Height years later after he was born he had a surgery on his feet. When his father took him to a boxing match he felt in love with
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Nick Peralta 23 March 2015 Professor Hodges ENWR106-BH Kooks and Killers Joyce Carol Oates’s short story‚ “Hi Howya Doin‚” follows a “good-looking husky guy‚” who is described as “six-foot-four in late twenties or early thirties‚” and is a “Caucasian male” (Oates 214) through his jogging session around a college campus. Throughout the man’s route he comes across strangers in his path that all seem to have lackluster lives‚ and every time the man comes across these strangers he shouts the phrase
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