Vijay Dorasami English 1102-002 Professor Bruce 09/30/2014 Joyce Carol Oates wrote a short story called “where are you going‚ where have you been?” One of the main character in the short story is a fifteen year old girl whose name is Connie. Connie was self-absorbed by her beauty‚ and would not listen when her mom try to council her. She rejects the role of daughter to develop her sexual persona‚ which increase when she is away from her family and home. Connie concerns were to become a young adult
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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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Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been Response The short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates was very interesting and appealing. It captures the reader’s attention from the beginning until the end. The main character‚ Connie‚ faces many challenges‚ one of which was temptation. In the story Connie meets a boy named Arnold Friend who tries to persuade her to go for a ride in his car. During this time she is faced with the conflict of temptation‚ whether or not
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the United States suffered the Great Depression. H.P. Lovecraft drew from his early influences to create dark tales‚ which he published largely in magazines. After the successful acceptance of "Dragon‚" Weird Science published many of his works. Joyce Carol Oates once wrote that he exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction." Lovecraft’s audience was limited during his life‚
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Reflection on “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” In “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” Richard Rodriguez describes his experience of growing up as an immigrant from Mexico. Rodriguez throughout the essay shows support against bilingual education and encourages immigrants to adapt to the English language because he believes immigrants can be more successful adapting and learning the American culture. Rodriguez recalls as a child he was forced to learn English when he started school
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Janay Graham 03-19-2013 ENG-102-0849 Paper 1 In the 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
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the setting creates division between innocence and adulthood. In the story‚ the protagonist is a complicated and confrontational young woman named Connie. The narrator explains that “Everything about her had to sides to it” (Oates 1). Connie has two personas‚ the person she is at home and the rebellious and carefree young woman she is away from her home. Throughout the plot‚ the doorway symbolizes a threshold that Connie has to
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Molly Berndt English 102-03 Final Draft The Devil in Disguise In the short story “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the use of the symbolism of Connie’s clothes‚ her fascination with her beauty‚ Arnold Friend’s car and Arnold Friend himself help to understand the story’s theme of evil and manipulation. The story‚ peppered with underlying tones of evil‚ finds Oates writing about 15-year-old Connie‚ a pretty girl who is a little too into her own attractiveness‚
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Comparing the Contrasting Written two centuries apart‚ “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Where Are You Going; Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates are two seemingly different stories. However‚ if looked at closely‚ several elements can be tied together. Each story has a similar point of view‚ but the story is told from two different perspectives. Several themes are unique to the stories‚ but deep within similarities can be found. The authors conclude their stories in two different
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Wrong Impressions The short story‚ “Where Are You going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates explains how a young girl was struggling to find herself. Oates writes about a girl named Connie who was 16 years old and was lost in a world of fantasy. Connie had a split personality/image while at home and when she was out with her friends. Living in a world of fantasy‚ Connie would ignore her family by tuning them out and being distant. Connie would constantly be in front of the mirror admiring
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