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 and by using
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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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home”(1369)‚ this character‚ Connie‚ in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is depicted as a self-centered‚ condescending‚ insecure fifteen year old girl growing into a woman. Connie comes off as a troubled young girl who consistently uses her sexuality for attention but at the same time is afraid of intimacy. This is said be due to her fractured relationships with her family; her frequent excursions with older boys that appeared to not have any interest after the first encounter
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Joyce Carol Oates’ story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is initially about a teen (Connie) who is going through the beginning phases of teen life‚ playing into the stereotype of an image-conscious teen. She is recalcitrant with her parents‚ sneaks off to start hanging out with boys‚ et cetera. About a third of the way through the story‚ a man that she had seen earlier at the diner shows up to take her out for a drive‚ and the situation goes downhill as she asks him more and more questions
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Do not knock on the devil’s door‚ for he is bound to answer. Unfortunately this is exactly what happens to Connie‚ the main character in the short-story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates. In the story‚ fifteen year old Connie is like any other teenage girl. She is vain‚ unkind to her parents‚ and desperate to grow up. Connie makes rebellious decisions such as sneaking across the highway to a drive-in restaurant for older kids‚ experimenting with sex‚ and lying
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Reading Barbara Ehrenreich interview was very interesting and made me actually think about how others feel or how others are living‚ who appears to be joyful and look like their living good. I agree with just about everything Ehrenreich said. As far as well established businesses that make a plethora amount of money but only pay their employees minimum wage. I personally can’t relate to her interview‚ unfortunately i know a few people who can. Growing up i had a really close friend who parents were
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GONE WITH THE WIND The book (Gone with the Wind) is written‚ with a simple linear plot that lasts about eight years. The events that took place were during the civil war‚ which changed the lives of everyone in the south. Scarlet was a seductive woman that made poor decisions throughout the novel. There was a land of cavallies and cotton fields called the Old South. A civilization gone with the wind (page 3 of the novel) the love of money
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MyDavey Bulletin – RC – Barbara Walters - September/October 2017 Suggested Hed: Interviewing Barbara Walters Art: RC – Barbara Walters.JPG Cutline: When Walters first retired‚ she couldn’t believe how “lovely it was to go where you wanted to go when you wanted to go!” Then‚ she’d get up at 7 AM and spend hours out in the garden‚ growing “miles of squash.” Now‚ Walters primarily enjoys nurturing her houseplants and watching Canada’s sports teams on television. From 1995 to 2004‚ if you called
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married John Robert Marsh. After ten years of writing her 1000 page novel that takes place in the Civil War era‚ Gone With the Wind was published in 1936. Receiving the 1937 Pulitzer Prize‚ Gone With the Wind became one of the best-selling novels of all time. But Mitchell wasn’t as fond of the uprising popularity of her work and she eventually fell ill from exhaustion. Even though Gone With the Wind was her only novel‚ Margaret continued to write nonfiction. In 1949‚ Margaret was hit by a car while
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The Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic The Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic of Toronto was created in memory of Barbara Teena Schlifer who was going to be a lawyer‚ but was brutally raped and murdered on April 11th 1980. The Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic opened in September of 1985‚ 5 years after the incident‚ and was established by two women named Frances Rappaport and Patricia Ashby‚ who were Barbara’s friends and were going to be her future law partners‚ in memory of all the
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