Maria Bustos Instructor: Ms. Cowart English 102 February‚ 4‚ 2015 Short Story Essay #1 “Where are you going‚ Where have you been” The short story about Connie deals with the experience of a young girl that is haunted by her good looks and cryptic behaviors. Inspired by a Life article of a serial killer‚ Oates created the story to: “It was not the number of murders that intrigued me‚ but the disturbing fact that a number of teenagers –from “good” families—aided and abetted his crimes” (Oates
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multicultural feminism‚ and gender studies. Now‚ apply these thoughts to a text like‚ ‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ written in 1970s. The insights and goals of the women’s movement have been transformed and translated as they have been integrated into popular culture and daily life today compared to the nineteenth century. Connie‚ the protagonist of the story ‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’‚ is a young and wild teenage girl‚ who in simple terms‚ enjoys the attention
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In the story Where are You Going‚ Where have you been reach out to young girls that have family issue and personal issues going on in their life. Connie is a young teenager who is self-centered and thinks that she is a grown women but still has a child mindset. She doesn’t know how much danger she is in by messing with a older man that she barely knew. Connie felt like nobody in the family careed about her so she decided to stay at home instead of going to the family barbecue. She is a shattered
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Where Am I Wearing a New World Kelsey Timmerman‚ from rural Ohio‚ is the author of the book Where Am I Wearing. The spark that influenced his interest in traveling to other countries was because of the pile of clothes on his floor. After Timmerman saw this‚ he looked at the tags on his clothes. He then wondered exactly where did his clothes come from. The group of people that this book surrounds are American Consumers. Timmerman wanted them to lose their consumer innocence. He wanted them to change
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remaining forest where endangered chimpanzees and mountain gorillas coexist. Bwindi is a place that has tons of poverty and the forest and tourism is the only way for them to make money. Oh and on top of extreme poverty they have to deal with genocide. Even though there has been peace since 1999‚ you still have to imagine that the people of the forest still have the rebels in the back of their mind. The forest is 327 km2 and is very difficult terrain to navigate through‚ and it can be cold with the
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Where Is Gatsby? By: Austin Book 5/6/13 1st Hour Last week‚ I attended one of Jay Gatsby’s lavish parties. It was almost exactly like I imagined it. The raucous women‚ the greedy guests‚ the whiskey‚ the fashion – it was quite the experience. I never received an invitation‚ but no one truly appeared to have one either. However‚ the biggest mystery of the party was the fact that Jay Gatsby was never seen. After all‚ one of the core reasons I had decided to attend the party was to meet
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“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates is about a teen named Connie who is insecure and is looking for an escape from her household. The main antagonist‚ Arnold Friends main objective is to lure Connie out and take her on a so called “date”. He does this by trying to make small talk. Some of the things said can be very creepy as he seems to have psychic abilities and know everything. One of the more irrelevant things said was‚ “Leave me alone‚” Connie whispered. “Hey‚ you
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evident in the play ‘Educating Rita’ where Rita’s persistent knocking and almost forced entrance into Frank’s office is symbolic of her entry into the academic world. However‚ the difficulties of entering Frank’s office throughout the play foreshadow the struggle Rita will face. Russel juxtaposes Rita’s idiomatic phrases‚ evidenced in ‘I wanna know’ with Frank’s formal ‘I want to know’. Therefore‚ Russel creates a dichotomy between the working and upper classes. th at we are i An individual’s existing
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Maddie Kramber 8 April 2016 Dual Credit English Per. 3B “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”: The Search For Self Still to this day in our lives‚ we struggle to figure out who we are‚ and what we are put here on Earth to do. In our society today‚ we have trouble with searching with who we are. In the short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the author’s background as well as her usage of characterization and internal conflict‚ develop the theme of identity
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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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