fictional story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” Joyce Carol Oates tells the thrilling story of a gullible fifteen year old girl named Connie ,whose privacy is violated when a stranger named Arnold Friend pulls up in her driveway and gestures her to join him for a ride. Arnold Friend is a character that is flamboyant, friendly in appearance, and emanates all the qualities of the perfect “prince charming”. Oates has written a story which gives us a twisted take on a traditional tale, but with
What do you predict will happen to this character after the story has ended? As Connie is introduced to us, we find that she is similar to teenage females, dressing one way at home and different when out with friends. She is obsessed with her appearance and life consists of hanging out with her friends. “Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home: her walk, which could be childlike and bobbing, or languid enough to make anyone think she was hearing
about being grown, until she meets Arnold Friend. Arnold makes Connie look at life in a new way, and strips her from her youthfulness. Everything to Connie is different after meeting Arnold; even the home she has lived in for
A. R Coulthard states that there is no grand mystery about the story since it's inspired from reality. Arnold Friend was inspired from Charles Schimid; The pied piper of Tuscon. A serial killer whom lure women out to the desert to kill them. Charles also stuff his shoes, listen to rock and roll, and finally he even droven a gold colored car. What even more amazing
“Where are you going? Where have you been?” Critical Analysis Joyce Carol Oates born on (June 16, 1938) in Lockport, New York spent her youth on her guardians' ranch. Lockport, a little provincial town, had battled financially since the Great Depression, yet it gave Oates a wholesome domain in which to grow up. "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is viewed as one of Oates' most celebrated works. Initially distributed in the artistic diary Epoch in 1966, it was later included in the short-story
Introduction Humans live with secrets. Some of those succeeded in keeping them hidden to their graves, while others might not be as fortunate. For centuries, humans were tortured and many were killed either for keeping or revealing them. One of the fears and struggles that one must keep is the deepest personal information: their sexual orientations. Those who have “different” sexual orientations from the generally known and accepted by the society have to live in shadows and try to blend in among
DeepMind technologies are trying to build an artificial intelligence system similar to the human mind, capable of carrying out the process of analysis and making decisions by itself. If this kind of A.I. will be applied to virtual reality games in the future, people will be able to play games by themselves in a virtual world with the semi-human computers, completely isolated from any social relationships
While the class has the option to write a research paper on a topic of their choice, the majority did a creative project in place of the paper. This gave the class the creativity to accomplish a plethora of projects such as a web page, a comic, or a poem. In this instance, I personally created a poem in a heroic couplet format to parallel Alexander Pope's "Essay of Criticism". Writing a response in a poetic format as a recreation of Pope's poem and to challenge myself with this project. Alexander