CHOOSE A CHARACTER FROM HARRISON BERGERON OR “WHERE ARE YOU GOING WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN” DO A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THAT CHARACTER. The story and characters that was chosen was “Where Are You Going Where Have You been.” The character Connie is a 15 year old teenager who doesn’t get along with her mother. She always fussing at her about staying in the mirror so much‚ her mother wants her to be like her sister June but‚ her parents showed her sister more attention
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Was It All A Dream? As Ms. Le Bris helped into the small cab that had been hailed to take me towards my uncertain future‚ my six year old mind whirled back to the past‚ recalling how I came to this moment in the present. My mother‚ Imogen Renaudin was an eighteen year old when she met my father. Fresh out of college and blindly in love‚ she had me‚ Ailsa Renaudin when she was just twenty. Lost in her own dreamworld‚ she fantasied that we would all be a happy family‚ slowly working our way up
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In the short story Where Are you Going Where Have You been‚the main character Connie is very promiscuous and struggles with finding herself. Joyce Carol Oates takes the reader on a journey of teen rebellion turned tragic and uses Connie to show that becoming independent is not easy. Throughout the story you can interpret that Connie felt vulnerable and neglected by her family and friends. Her mother always talked about how she should be more like her older sister‚ Jane “she was so plain and chunky
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Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? Innocent‚ young‚ naïve; this is how Connie was at her age of fifteen. She liked the attention boys gave her and how it made her feel. A man named Arnold Friend‚ whose much older than her‚ has stalked Connie and wants to convince her to go for a ride in his car. Connie doesn’t notice the man’s older features and this causes her young mind to contemplate going with Arnold in his car. Connie is more conflicted with herself‚ she battles to make the right choices
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In the short story “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ Connie’s house illustrates irony because of the changes that occur in Connie’s behavior towards her mom throughout the story. At the beginning of the story‚ Connie epitomizes a normal teenager’s feeling towards her parents‚ especially feelings towards her mother when at home. “Connie’s mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over‚” (492). With her
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their own‚ or figuring out if the decisions they make are right and if their experiences are going to help them or just hurt them more in the long run. In Connie’s experience with Arnold Friend‚ whether it is real or a dream‚ the theme of "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚" is ultimately about fear. Likewise‚ "We didn’t‚" while its dominant tone is comic‚ the underlying theme is based on fear. Both stories ultimately deal with the fear of crossing through the passage
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Analysis of Where the Mind is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore Here‚ we attempt a crucial analysis of Where the Mind is without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore. Where the Mind is without Fear consists of eleven lines and somewhat resembles the style of a sonnet. In a sonnet‚ the first eight lines usually present an idea‚ are argumentative‚ put a proposal or a problem. If we look at the first eight lines of Where the Mind is without Fear‚ we find that the lines are a form of a prayer
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part of having memory. We should always remember where we come from as a part of our history. Remembering where you come from identifies the meaning of who you really are. “Remember the sky you were born under‚ know each of the star’s stories” (Harjo 802 L1). The first line is this poem symbolizes the whole poem’s meaning to remember where you were born and the stars are each problem that may have occurred in your life. It is important to know where we come from because the world was living before
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This is where it ends Have you ever wondered about school shootings‚ or heard of them on the news? What is the theme of This is Where it Ends? How do the elements of POV‚ perspective‚ and setting help develop this theme? I think the theme is be thankful for your life this is supported by the POV (4 first person)‚ the perspective for Sylv‚ and setting of it’s remote location. After reading this is where it ends‚ it is concluded that POV‚ perspective‚ and setting all play a big role in the story. In
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” the author uses clothes as a symbol to reveal our protagonist and antagonist individualities. Connie who is our protagonist is a fifteen-year-old girl who has the habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors. Connie wears a pullover jersey blouse that looked one way when she is home and another way when she is away‚ in where she wears shorts. In the text‚ it states that “They must have been familiar sights walking around the shopping plaza in their
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