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    Nicholas Young LITR-221 June 23‚ 2013 Where Have You Been‚ Where Are You Going: A. Friend’s View. His name was Arnold Friend. He was getting older but still liked the young ladies around town. Arnold came from a broken home. His father had been in prison since right after his birth for some reason or another and his mother did her best to raise him courting a string of good-for-nothing losers who were in and out of her life faster than crap through a goose. He was a high school dropout who eked

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    He Got Game Analysis

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    The excerpt from “He Got Game” is relate to the animals complacent attitude as the commandments change and the way of doing things on the farm change for the worse by using complacency facts about each. “1 outta 1 million residents/being dissident” this is a piece from the excerpt of “He Got Game”. This relates to Animal Farm because there was so much being done on the farm that was wrong and no one did anything about it. Like when they knew the seven commandments have changed‚ they knew that the

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    Theft of Innocence Growing up every person in the world loses the purity they were once born with and the moment when one realizes that not everything in the world is the way it was thought to be‚ the world crumbles into pieces‚ but how does it happen? Joyce Carol Oates portrays an amazing detailed moment of theft of chastity‚ or at least what is left of it‚ in "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been?" With symbolic imagery‚ major bibliomancy‚ and extreme personal conflict Oates easily manages

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    Where Are You Going ‚Where Have You Been is a story written by Joyce Carol. The story talks about this fifthteen year old girl named Connie. Connie is the young child in her family. Her mother and her does not have a great relationship‚ because she is always being compared to her old sister June. Connie goes out with her friends to the mall. They walk pass this gold cadillac where this man named Arnold Friend says that he is going to get her. On Sunday her family went to BBQ and Connie decided to

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    Weinberger’s article makes many interesting points about the character of Arnold Friend in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been”- the main idea being that Arnold represents Connie’s “other self”. According to the article‚ this can be observed in how Connie and Arnold are opposites in both appearance and behavior‚ and Arnold’s purpose is to induct Connie into adulthood. I disagree with the idea that Arnold is Connie. While the article gathered a lot of good evidence to support this claim‚ I

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    they have made. In Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been.” She uses characterization and imagery to show how Connie is dealing with the loss of her innocence Oates characterization of Arnold Friend shows how Connie’s perspective of Arnold and his looks leads to the deception of who he really is. Connie was at home alone one day and a car pulled into her drive way that she didn’t know‚ and it

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    Where I'M from

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    WHERE I’M FROM Because she was drawn to the "southern humor" that I employed and she liked the way I treated her as well as her family‚ she always wanted to know where I was from. If I said I was from Texas‚ the biggest state in the country‚ in a city just off the warm Gulf Coast beaches‚ where the military and the schools share the population‚ do you think then she might know where I was from? Where I’m from‚ Texas stays on my mind whenever the humidity is bursting from my pores no matter

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    Wrong Impressions The short story‚ “Where Are You going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates explains how a young girl was struggling to find herself. Oates writes about a girl named Connie who was 16 years old and was lost in a world of fantasy. Connie had a split personality/image while at home and when she was out with her friends. Living in a world of fantasy‚ Connie would ignore her family by tuning them out and being distant. Connie would constantly be in front of the mirror admiring

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    control their victims. Women have built an image for themselves over the years as independent‚ strong‚ and smart. However‚ the women in the following stories represent a different image for women. In both short stories‚ “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ the protagonists are lured by their bad decisions leading to their demise; the victims’ bad decisions along with the criminals’ bad intentions led to death creating the plot of both stories. Although‚ the stories

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    In the film Stand by Me‚ directed by Rob Reiner‚ a character that showed a lot of interesting traits was Chris. He is a confident and spirited young man who has a lot of wit about him. He is captivating because of the anger he has towards people and places which always suggests a darker past. Chris is from a tough family by the name of Chambers. His family is known around Castle Rock as criminals but Chris is ashamed to be related to his audacious family. He displays this when he and Geordie

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