Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have you been?” is a coming-of-age short story that depicts the virtually invisible barrier between adolescence and adulthood. Connie is a feisty fifteen-year-old girl that doesn’t intend to ride in the backseat for the duration of her younger years‚ unlike her older sister June‚ who her mother tends to favor throughout most of the story. Her mother causes most of the friction in the house between the two‚ mainly because “[e]verything about [Connie]
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their thin shoulders rigid with excitement‚ and listened to the music that made everything so good: the music was always in the background like music at a church serve‚ it was something to depend on.” This paragraph in the short-story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ is a look into how the author Joyce Carol Oates views adolescent values. She parallels religion and religious practices with the main character’s Saturday nights. Oates carefully designed this paragraph to illustrate a social
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Poetry Commentary In the poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends”‚ which poetic techniques does the poet Shel Silverstein use to make the work so moving? The poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein signifies the passage of life. The poet uses a sidewalk as an extended metaphor to describe the dark and dreary ways of life. The end of the sidewalk is supposed to represent heaven or the end of the passage. His purpose is to teach the reader about the steady pace in which one walks towards his or
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Living in a town or city is better than in the countryside Everybody can choose the place‚ where he would like to live. Some people prefer living in the city and other prefer living in the village‚ but what is really the best for us? First of all we should define our terms of reference. Village- means a group of houses with a church‚ school and some shops in the countryside and city- means a place‚ where people live and work and it contains many houses‚ shops‚ places of entertainment‚ etc. Living
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Where The Red Fern Grows‚ by Wilson Rawls‚ follows the life of a young boy named Billy who lives in the Ozark Mountains with his Mamma‚ Papa‚ and three sisters. Because of his passion for coon hunting‚ he secretly saves up for two hunting dogs‚ and names them "Old Dan" and "Little Ann". They go on countless adventures through the Cherokee country. Rawls writes‚ "A loving three-some‚ they ranged dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn‚ Little Ann had the brains-and
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THE BLITZ Where and when did the Blitz start? At 4:56pm on 7 September 1940‚ the air raid sirens wailed as the luftwaffe (the German Air Force)‚ launched a massive attack on London. Around 350 bombers flew across the English Channel from France and dropped 300 tonnes of bombs on the docks and streets of London. Other places that were affected? Other important military and industrial centres‚ such as Aberdeen‚ Belfast‚ Birmingham‚ Cardiff‚ Exeter‚ Glasgow‚ Sheffield‚ Swansea‚ Liverpool
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background colours when Smudge is talking to Charles‚ from dark and gloomy greyish where was Charles sitting‚ to the bright and joyful green where Smudge was sitting and asking him to play with her. Charles was sad and Smudge is happy. Transforming the reader’s mood from sadness to happiness as the two dogs cross over the picture into the two different moods from left to right as the story is moving forward. Also in Where are the wild things are? “A study of Sendak’s illustrations reveals that the color
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Vijay Dorasami English 1102-002 Professor Bruce 09/30/2014 Joyce Carol Oates wrote a short story called “where are you going‚ where have you been?” One of the main character in the short story is a fifteen year old girl whose name is Connie. Connie was self-absorbed by her beauty‚ and would not listen when her mom try to council her. She rejects the role of daughter to develop her sexual persona‚ which increase when she is away from her family and home. Connie concerns were to become a young adult
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Introductory paragraph: In the novel where the red fern grows by mcdougal littell the theme was how did they get in a fight the first place rubin and billy were trying to catch the ghost coon so rubin and billy made a deal rubin said “if you catch the ghost coon you get to keep your money if i catch the ghost coon I have the money so billy tried his best to catch the ghost coon but he did not get him so billy had to give rubin his money than billy said “let me have another chance than rubin said
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Where Dreams Collide Fiji was a place that was almost too exotic--a place that existed only in movies and magazines. I remember the first time I saw a picture of a perfect wave in Surfer Magazine. I was fourteen years old. I studied the glassy surface in detail. I couldn’t imagine being in that wave and how it would almost feel as if time was stopped. I can still remember that photo now and I can picture exactly what it said. Tavarua‚ Fiji. The heart shaped island imprinted on my heart. It drew
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