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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At first glance‚ the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates seems like a regular story where a girl just has home problems like every other teenager. However‚ by looking more into the story you can see that the locations of where Connie is at‚ mean something different. In my opinion‚ I believe that the setting plays a significant role in the way Connie alternates her personality around her family and friends. When she is out with friends and not at home with family
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- � PAGE �1� - Park � PAGE �1� "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been" Vanity can be exposed as one ’s greatest weakness. "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been"‚ a short story written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ describes Connie ’s misconception of beauty as her only value‚ and also the ways in which Arnold Friend‚ a potential rapist and murderer‚ manipulates and takes advantage of Connie ’s vanity. Connie is a fifteen year old girl who knows the extent to which her beauty can be used to her
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Talk about a day in your life when you felt really happy “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” ~Norman Cousins “What is happiness?” What a completely dense and loaded question this is. If I were to write a paper about happiness‚ I would then need to operationally define happiness in terms that allowed everyone to understand what I was referring to. The problem with this‚ however‚ is that we then merely repeat the best definition we come
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Who Told You That You Were Naked? which has been written by William E Combs and published by Carpenter’s Son Publishing proved to be something of a disappointment to me. Brought up as a Catholic‚ I have for many years been interested and troubled by the problem of evil in the world‚ wondering how it can be that some people are capable of inflicting horrendous cruelty on their fellow human beings. The sub-title (A Refreshing Re-examination of the Garden of Eden) encouraged me to read the Doctor Combs’
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Fantasy versus Reality in Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates has a constant theme of reality and fantasy running parallel for 15 year old Connie. This short story begins with a description of Connie’s vain personality. The narrator describes her as pretty and self-centered (Oates 421). To emphasize her selfishness‚ Connie is contrasted with her sister‚ June‚ who is chubby‚ plain‚ and well-behaved. Connie’s mother always praises
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In Joyce Carol Oates’ "Where Are you Going‚ Where Have You Been"‚ Oates used figurative language to show the evil in Arnold Friend and how he as a Fiend tries to pull Connie into his corrupted world. The harsh reality that Oates includes in her story is that there are fiends that may seem like a friend around us like Arnold. By using figurative language Oates can create a fiend from what Seem to be a Friend. There are many hints that Joyce left to show that Arnold Friend is not a friend at all
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into the length of this essay! My life has been the “event” and the “experiences” that have led me to the choice to pursue a career in social work! I was raised in a narcissist family in which my mother never was capable of loving me due to her mental illnesses and a father whom was an abuser. I learned to “survive” at a very young age and also developed a deep intuitive ability. I wanted that “perfect” family that I had so longed for my whole life and at 19 became a mother. I was bound
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nant figures; for the reasons she had to make the decisions she did and in Gilman’s and Chopin’s the husbands were in control of the woman. In Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing‚ the constraints of oppression were alive in her thoughts. Olsen’s fa’ade was being a housewife‚ she would have rather had other choices in her life and wanted more for her daughter as is told by the last quote in the story: In summary‚ all three women had no choice in their lives or they chose not to have a choice but to follow
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