Moreover‚ Von Uffel is correct that Mrs Mooney plans to trap Mr Doran into marriage using the city’s concern for preserving social appearances. We begin to suspect that Mrs Mooney is up to something when she “[notices] that something was going on between Polly and [Mr Doran]” but “kept her own counsel” (58). Even when people in the boarding house gossiped about an affair between the two‚ “still [she] did not intervene” (my emphasis‚ 58). It seems very strange for a mother‚ particularly a determined
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Oscar Wilde once said “always expect the unexpected.” When 9/11 happened‚ many people died because they weren’t prepared for the worst to happen. The planes crashed near the upper 3rd of the towers and the crash spanned about 10 floors leaving many living people above and below the crash site that could have been saved using certain tactics to evacuate. If everyone prepared completely for a terrorist attack on the twin towers‚ the fire dept. And police dept. Would have had a plan to evacuate
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When you chance the way you look at things‚ the things you look at change. The most fundamental and mayor decision you have to make in your life is this: Do I live in a friendly or A hostile universe? Is it the universe‚ where people want to hate each other‚ kill each other. Is that what you see? Because when you see the world that way‚ that is exactly what you create for yourself. The interesting thing is that this is not just a clever play of words: When you change the way you look at
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The more you work the more money you get It is a difussed opinion that the more you work the more you earn.Does it always depend on this factor?Yes‚ofcourse it mostly depends on it‚but also there are important factors which help you earn more money. Let’s consider it from the very beginning.Firstly‚I think that a good employee‚wherever he works‚should have such touches of nature as intelligence‚optimism‚riskiness and responsibility.Intelligence helps to solve successfully all kind of problems
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True Meaning “Everything about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not 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
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The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity In "Where are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?" Joyce Carol Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates alludes to hell through the character Arnold Friend‚ as the devil‚ and his victim Connie‚ who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can easily deduce. The name that Oates gives to the character
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"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" Music is one of the symbols mentioned in this story. The author mentions the music played in everywhere in the story. The author says that "The Music was always in the background". The music comes from restaurants‚ homes and cars. Music symbolizes the feeling and the emotions of the characters. For example‚ music for Connie is a pattern for romantic relationship. When she is happy‚ she hears music in everywhere. On the other hand‚ when she is sad‚ she
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adulthood is frustrating and confusing‚ and in most adolescents‚ is filled with apprehension and anxiety. For the protagonist Connie‚ this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character‚ to reveal the internal fear and conflict of a fifteen year old girl maturing into a young woman. Oates chooses narrate her story in the third person giving
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"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" By Joyce Carol Oates A short story titled "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" tells a tale of an adolescent girl who suffers consequences of growing up in the unsupportive environment and the society preoccupied by the media. It is considered to be the most famous work of Joyce Carol Oates‚ an American writer‚ the winner of many significant literary awards and a two- time candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The story was first
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A psychologist named Jennifer Baumgartner wrote a book called “You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You.” In this book‚ Jennifer shows that a person’s wardrobe can reflect several psychological problems a person may have. She is also able to connect a person’s clothing to their behavior. Countless people can determine just the same when paying enough attention. A person’s clothing can reveal a wide range of personality traits from functionality to diligence‚ or even to sentimentality
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