about one of the boys she went out with and feels as though the kind of love they had was the way it is promised in music (Oates 293). The songs she listens to give her everything she knows about romance. When Connie and her girl friend go out for the night Connie meets a boy named Eddie. During her hangout with Eddie‚ Oates writes that “…her face was gleaming with a joy that had nothing to do with Eddie or even this place; it might have been the music” (Oates
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The book‚ "We Were the Mulvaneys" by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is the story of an "all American family" that falls apart after their daughter is raped. The father‚ who once had a successful roofing company‚ lets his business slide and devotes his life to alcohol and law suits‚ and the three brothers either abandon the family or try to find a method of gaining vengeance for their sister. This particular excerpt describes a scene by the brook‚ where the youngest Mulvaney (Judd) is contemplating life and the
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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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Joyce Carol Oates has been a literary genius‚ which is one of the many reasons I decided to go to her event at Clowes Auditorium. I have also recently read her book‚ Black Water‚ which was an interesting read. It was a fictional telling of the Chappaquiddick Scandal that had happened several years before I was born. One the aspects of Black Water I particularly appreciated was that she took a real life event and created a fictional story around it. At this reading‚ on September 28 2015‚ she read
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Anna is lost in her sin In the Lady with the Pet Dog by Joyce Carol Oates‚ Oates breaks up chronological order into a boxlike structure with three distinct sections of a plot. Every section of the plot is written in different time and part of Anna’s life in order to express more clearly how Anna is lost in her sin since the day she committed adultery. Oates describes changes in her thoughts and her confused state of mind. Using the third person perspective‚ omniscient narrator‚ she makes Anna the
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When I was 8 years old my family and I went to knotts berry farm. Being a small kid the time‚ I barely reached the height minimum to board. When I got on‚ I had to share a seat and lap bar with my dad and we didn’t put the seat belt on correctly. When the ride started‚ I could feel me slide around and my body lift off the seat. The whole ride I ended up hugging the lap bar‚ that wasn’t even pushing on my legs‚ in hopes that I would not fly off the seat. With this experience my mood transformed
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Jose Alcantar Prof. Gurfield English 102 5/ 20/ 14 What Motivated Joyce Carol Oates to Become a Gothic Writer? It is common in many gothic writers to have a dark past‚ using their writing as an outlet for coming to terms with their experiences. One of the most notable contributors to American gothic literature is Joyce Carol Oates. She lived a happy childhood in a small farming community‚ and attended the Catholic Church with her family. Oates has shown exemplary talent in writing even before she
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From the article “Is This the Promised End?” The Tragedy of King Lear‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ King Lear is presented as someone who is “…overwhelmed by the authority of the title ‘King’… [becoming a] human being dying inside an archetype” (Oates 4). King Lear was someone who yearned for status and power‚ but never truly upheld any of the responsibilities that came with the title of being king. Because he was obsessed with keeping a royal façade‚ he disconnected with the ones dearest to him—his
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one of America’s best known and most popular visual artists from the mid-20th century. Wyeth’s painting‚ Night Nurse‚ was made in 1995 after his other famous works such as Christina’s World‚ 1948‚ and Braids‚ 1979. Wyeth’s Night Nurse is now being displayed at the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock. When the viewer first walks into the Masterworks section of the Arkansas Art Center‚ Night Nurse is the first painting they will see. It is displayed at eye level and the spectators are capable of viewing
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Jodelis Diaz Joyce Carol Oates is a very distinguished American writer but is known worldwide. She has produced novels‚ plays‚ short stories‚ and poetry. Oates is known for dark stories‚ brutality that her characters endure‚ and how she puts her personal life into these stories. Four sources that I have provided show how her stories connect with her life and why they are so dark. My first source‚ “The ‘I‚’ Which doesn’t Exist‚ is Everything” written by Jonne V. Creighton gives in depth information
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