Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Oates constitutes the use of allegories to create a sense of suspense in the story. The story depicts the way society was in the 1960s. In this time period‚ there were a lot of controversies that cause a lot of frustration. Many stories written during the 1960s involved a lot of the same things that are in this coming-of-age story. The issues incorporated into “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” were
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The United States has been through so much. Ever since English settlers have went across the seas to see the New World something was always coming up. We have dealt with how to survive and the British trying to take over our country and controlling everything we do. We finally decided that it was our time to tell the British to stop and we were ready to fight back. It was our time to show we know how to run a country on our own. The American Revolution was an outburst between America and Britain
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Personally I do not believe in love at first sight only because it is a proven fact when you first see someone if you guys stare at one another for more than 7 seconds it is lust or a desire to kill. I think this love at first sight thing is really naive. Love is such a broad term and is used incorrectly in many contexts. It could mean love of anything‚ love for anything‚ and love in anything. I think in general‚ love at first sight is hard to come by because people look straight to the positives
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Do you believe in abortion? First of all for those who don’t know what abortion is‚ abortion is a practice in where the women have the right to terminate a pregnancy during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy. There have been many commotions about this practice in whether they should ban the practice or let it continue. The reasons many individuals want to ban this practice is due to them believing it’s a sin if a women gets an abortion‚ but what many of them don’t comprehend is that this women
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"Where are you going‚ Where have you been?" is one that has had many interpretations over there years‚ by many literary critics and readers alike‚ generating a vast list of themes and meanings to the story. Some have declared the story to be a "feminist allegory‚" while others argue that one of the main characters‚ Arnold‚ is a "savior" or "messiah figure‚" as popular figures during the 1960’s were to young girls like Connie‚ the main character. Though many interpretations have been made‚ and all
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These failed compromises served purposes other than their intended ones. They served to “feed the extremist factions” in each of the divided sections of America. The deterioration of these compromises aided the progression of groups like the Radical Republicans‚ Know- Nothings‚ Free-Soil Party‚ and Abolitionists. One of the compromises that served to feed these factions was the Missouri Compromise. As stated before‚ this compromise debated on the admission Maine and Missouri as slave or free states
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while saving cats falling from trees? Does one have to be a hero by saving someone from a burning building? What qualifies as a hero? Many people have their own definition and vision of a hero. Heroism comes in many ways through attitudes and acts of oneself. I believe heroism is the intent of doing something for the benefit of others‚ and not caring about the consequences that might ensue. In Joyce Carol Oates’s "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚" we see the character of Connie in a process
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learn that they could have‚ in no way‚ been avoided. However‚ after reading Ellis’s essay‚ The Collaborators‚ we can come to assume that this same idea is present toward the American Revolution. There are so many factors that are said to have caused it‚ that it’s hard to determine what never needed to happen. Because of the French and Indian War‚ the British were suffering from debt. They needed the find a way out; therefore‚ new laws and acts were established. If the British would have treated the colonists
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“[Connie] had a quick‚ nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right.” (1) In the story “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” the author Joyce Carol Oates‚ deliberately shows us the level of innocence of the protagonist Connie‚ as well as the similar features an inexperienced young girl who lived in 1966 compares to those of a young girl who is raised in our era. Young teenage girls in 1966 are no different
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I am a person of doubt. I am a person with too much confusion. I am a Christian and Catholic by birth. I barely attend masses for I don’t believe on priests but not all. To be honest‚ I really find it hard to make this essay. I think I’ve tried it for five times but I always end up erasing the lines and start again a new one. I really don’t know what to say in it. It’s a tough one for me‚ really. Yes‚ I’m not good in essays but this one makes it more difficult for me since I choose to be quiet whenever
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