1995. Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender‚ race‚ class‚ or creed. Choose a novel or a play in which such a character plays a significant role and show how that character’s alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions or moral values. In the novel Frankenstein‚ the character Frankenstein “the monster” created by Victor is an example of alienation from society or culture. The monster
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confusing‚ and in most adolescents‚ is filled with apprehension and anxiety. For the protagonist Connie‚ this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character‚ to reveal the internal fear and conflict of a fifteen year old girl maturing into a young woman. Oates chooses narrate her story in the third person giving us a glimpse in to Connie’s thoughts
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Where there is love‚ there is pain? Love‚ like many things‚ is undoubtedly complex and to define it would be impossible due to its subjectivity. We are told in forms of media and through social norms that love is supposed to be this true‚ authentic experience-regardless of the fact that no one experiences love the same way. A poetic Spanish proverb stated that “Where there is love‚ there is pain”. I believe that in order to be strong while in love‚ we must first become vulnerable and susceptible
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Controversies and conflicts are many ways to emphasize key characters and plots in many novels. Authors such as‚ Maryse Conde use change and the effects of change‚ to help the reader better understand the underlying themes. In the novel Segu‚ Conde does just this. The controversy of change in religion creates a fairly large civil conflict amongst the Bambara people. This same civil conflict eventually boils over into the controversy of change in people and trade. The effect of this change would later
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In the 1960s‚ when Oates wrote “Where Are You Going . . . ‚” a social revolution was happening. American women were asserting their rights and independence from men‚ and they were claiming their sexuality in a way they had never done before. One frequently discussed topic was adolescence and the struggles and anxieties that many young girls endured as they lost their sexual innocence and became adult women. Feeling undervalued in their homes and relationships with men‚ women questioned their role
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Analysis for “Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates’ short story is a complete fiction in the sense that it utilizes all its elements without deemphasizing one for the other. Oates uses point of view‚ setting‚ conflict‚ character‚ and symbol equally well to convey her theme. Oates applies these elements of fiction to give readers a better understanding of the American teenager and to show how a girl is psychologically manipulated by predators. It is evident from the first
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MPD in Novel Three Three is a novel write by Ted Dekker. Dekker good at write mystery novel‚ like Three and Obsessed. Three is a book talk about MPD‚ Multiple Personality Disorder‚ Is a mental disorder that let people have two or more than two unique personality in one body. The leading character of the novel named Kevin. Unfortunately‚ he has this mental disorder. At the beginning of the stroy‚ Kevin drove in his car by himself and got a phonecall from Slater. Slater need Kevin answer a riddle:
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Where the Gods Fly The distance between a mother and a daughter can be as far as the distance between cultures. Where is the fine line between guidance and control? How far can you go as a mother‚ and do you always know what’s best for your child? In the short story "Where the Gods Fly" written by Jean Kwok‚ we meet a concerned Chinese mother dealing with a serious culture clash which affects both her and her daughter Pearl. The narrator is a Chinese woman who has immigrated to America with her
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The character in “where are you going‚ where have you been?” Connie is affected by the role she plays in modern society. Fifteen year old Connie has the confusing‚ often exterior behavior typical of those girls who are facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood in the 1960s. She is caught between her roles as daughter‚ friend‚ sister‚ and object of sexual desire‚ uncertain of which represents her real self. The sixties were the age of youth‚ young people wanted change. The changes
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Connie’s Paradigm In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the
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