her siblings‚ everyone she knows‚ and her abusive father whom she labours excessively for to support. This is the same town her mother died in that she now anticipates leaving for Buenos Ayres‚ with her fiancé Frank. The story of Eveline‚ by James Joyce‚ handles many interconnected themes such as attachments‚ escape and identity‚ which employs great attention to a specific situation that is relatable to almost everyone: the time to leave home. Though Eveline’s acting outlets resemble those prominent
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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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Sometimes being the little guy can cause a person to notice the scarier parts of life. As for Judd Mulvaney‚ this is very true. In her novel‚ We Were the Mulvaneys‚ Joyce Carol Oates characterizes Judd as a reflective young boy through her use of indirect and direct characterization‚ selection of detail‚ and repetition. Initially‚ the reader sees a young boy taking a break from his bike ride to gape at a brook near his house. As Judd stares into the water‚ Oates describes him as "hypnotized and
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isGabriella Lujan Pamela Lapcevic English 108 February 11‚ 2013 In the realistic story of “Is Sex All That Matters”‚ Joyce Garity talks about a seventeen year old girl named Elaine‚ who is pregnant with her second child. Elaine’s first child was in foster care at the point of time because of her situation. The story also explains how Elaine conceived her two children‚ and how the sexual media had a lot to do with the two births. It also suggests how society can help young people not to make
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April 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
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In Joyce Carol Oates story‚ "Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?" there are two main characters in the story one of them is Connie. She was a naïve fifteen year old teenage girl‚ and the other character is a psychopath named Arnold Friend. Connie is a typical teenager she hangs out with her friends going to the mall and movies‚ just basically out having fun without a care in the world. Arnold is a psychopath who appears to be like any human. In many cases‚ one would not be able to
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The Face of Evil Doesn’t Always Look the Part The short story “Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ and its adaptation Smooth Talk by Joyce Chopra both portray Arnold Friend as evil. Although he appears very differently in both texts‚ his intentions are the same and eventually gets Connie out of that house. In the movie‚ Joyce Chopra is trying to tell the audience who has read the story that evil comes in all different shapes and sizes through her casting of Treat
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story “Where have you been‚ Where are you going?” Joyce Carol Oates describes ‚ the main character Connie to be a rebellious teenager‚ she loses her childhood innocence when she gives up her virginity to Arnold Friend. Annotated bibliography Connie is portrayed to be lacking in self esteem and has feelings of worthlessness which is why she makes the decision‚ possibly fatal‚ like befriending Arnold friend. Johnson‚ Greg. Understanding Joyce Carol Oates‚ 1987: 101-02Johnson “interprets the
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Dubliner‚ written by the Irish novelist James Joyce‚ is a collection of fifteen short stories published in 1914. It deals with childhood‚ maturity and public life in Dublin‚ Ireland. The final story of the compilation is The Dead; which tells about Kate and Julia Morkan’s annual party on the Epiphany day. Although the two elderly sisters receive in their house relatives and friends‚ they eagerly wait for the arrival of their favorite nephew: Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta. The professor and intellectual
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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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