As Mandy Hale once stated‚ “Sometimes when you lose your way‚ you find yourself.” This is certainly true for the traveler‚ the protagonist and only character from Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “The Journey”. The traveler‚ who is not identified as female or male‚ sets out on a journey on the highway towards a city that they have visited many times. Along the way‚ the traveler finds themself lost after turning on a different road that they usually follow towards the city; they suppose that the new
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Professor Clary Writing Research 109 Sec. 03 15 September 2013 “Ladies and Gentlemen” By Joyce Carol Oates Ever go on vacation or to a movie and it takes a turn to the unexpected? That is exactly what the passengers in Joyce Carol Oates’ story “Ladies and Gentlemen” are experiencing. They signed up for a fabulous‚ top of the line‚ tropical cruise‚ however what they received was an old‚ run down‚ beaten‚ vermin filled cruise ship destined for the dry docks. Not to mention their “tropical
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listens to. Connie thinks 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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Sometimes being the little guy can cause a person to notice the scarier parts of life. As for Judd Mulvaney‚ this is very true. In her novel‚ We Were the Mulvaneys‚ Joyce Carol Oates characterizes Judd as a reflective young boy through her use of indirect and direct characterization‚ selection of detail‚ and repetition. Initially‚ the reader sees a young boy taking a break from his bike ride to gape at a brook near his house. As Judd stares into the water‚ Oates describes him as "hypnotized and
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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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[ ] as he is very potent with such spirits‚ abuses me to damn me" (William Shakespeare). The Devil has been a theme in writings for decades; authors have played with the symbolism of the Devil in their characters to add depth to their writing. Joyce Carol Oates‚ an accredited short story writer‚ has received numerous awards for her works. Her writing style is captivating; grabbing the reader ’s undying attention as they enter her world; a world including violence‚ rape‚ murder‚ and the good ol ’
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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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“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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A Widow’s Story is a memoir of Joyce Carol Oates‚ dedicated to her late husband Raymond Smith. This book was gripping from the very start‚ I felt like I was getting to know Oates more as a person‚ instead of just the author to literature read for the class. Oates husband of forty-seven year of marriage passed away from a secondary infection; acquired during his hospital stay for treatment of pneumonia. She takes us on this journey with her from the beginning with the ER visit she took with Ray‚ when
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