This poem was published in 1978 by Joyce Carol Oates. I chose this poem because it very much speaks about the traditional roles of men and women‚ specifically towards married men and women. We can use Gender lens to further analyze the poem. In the 70’s‚ that was the time where women are fighting for their equal rights similar to men. Now if we compare women today from the 70’s‚ we can really see a very big difference of our roles nowadays. Before‚ women who are married are expected to just stay
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In the story by Joyce Carol Oates‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” and in the short story “The Storm” by Kate Chopin the relationships among love‚ age‚ and maturity will be compared. In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” based in the 1960’s‚ is about a fifteen year old girl named Connie who is seduced and finally abducted by a man named Arnold Friend. The Story has underlined tones of love‚ age‚ and evil. Connie‚ the main character of the story‚ is an attractive girl
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tyrannical presence of her aunt and three cousins‚ and she experiences abuse on all different levels: emotional‚ physical‚ and mental. After breaking free of this "family"‚ many years later‚ Jane comes into contact with the Rivers family. She forms a close relationship with three benevolent people who turn out to be her cousins‚ and Jane finds the closest thing to a family in her life by residing with them. There is concrete evidence in Jane Eyre‚ as mentioned in Oates’ introduction‚ that Jane’s familial
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considering: the story’s purpose‚ what the reader should become aware of and to alter the reader’s perception. Three different points of view were chosen for the stories‚ “A&P” by John Updike‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ and “The Story Of An Hour” by Kate Chopin. These three stories show us how each author achieves bringing their message across through the use of different points of view. The story “A&P” is told in the first person point of
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Where are you going? Where have you been? Analysis on religious parallels. In the short story by Joyce Carol Oates cleverly uses several different types of imagery and other literary devices to effectively parallel the story between severally religious story’s and symbolism. Oates gives several hints and subtle displays of the stories and the meanings behind those of the bible and Oates also relies heavily on the devil and sacrificial lamb scenario. In some of these teachings we learn that good
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Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates there is bad parenting and it costs Connie at the end. Throughout the entire story there is little or no parenting‚ or sometimes there is a little parenting but it is not very good parenting. For example‚ “their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home‚ he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper he went to bed. He didn’t bother talking much to them” (Oates 1). So even with her parents at home it
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Cited: SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2007. Web. 17 May 2013. "Lea ’s Review of Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories ByJoyce Carol Oates." Goodreads Mobile. 1 Sept. 2012. Web. 20 May 2013.
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Joyce Carol Oates was just a young child when she began exploring desolate homes and barns. Joyce would trek miles through fields to find that one empty home. A few of the homes were abandoned for so long that they began to decay and become over grown with weeds. Joyce was particularly attracted to the homes that were most recently deserted. The most recently deserted homes had lost remnants of past owners that really caught her attention. When Joyce entered the home she would often imagine
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short story a “Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Where are you going‚ where have you been “by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the narrators frequently uses symbolism. In the short story “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses Emily’s old house as a symbol of Emily and her mental illness‚ also the meaning of the house to the town’s people of Emily’s neighborhood. “Where are you going‚ where have you been” Oates shows us how music is largely used in the text. The type of Music that both Connie and Arnold listen
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it so easy for teenagers to give up their life to be sexually active and grow up? They don’t know the consequences of growing up too fast and trying things out too early. In the story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ the author‚ Joyce Carol Oates uses the plot to reveal the struggles‚ dangers‚ and mental persuasions of teenage girls sexual innocence and becoming adult women too early. The struggles of becoming a woman too fast can be severe. Teenage girls especially get made fun of
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