Joyce Carol Oate’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” expresses multiple themes throughout its story. These themes that are presented and are the most abundant in Oate’s short story are, fantasy versus reality, independence, and absence of authority. All of these themes contribute to the story about a young girl who is exploring herself and her body, in the hopes of finding her true independence as a woman. Her curiosity is what eventually leads her to a negative time in her life, a time
A Journey Within Everyone as human beings at some point or another in their life go through the phase of trying to figure out who they are and finding their independence. Some don’t have to work too hard, it just comes naturally to them. For most people it takes a lot of mistakes made, learning from those mistakes, getting stronger from those lessons learned, and finding the strength within ones self to rise up every time they fall down to be able to get back up and keep fighting doing it better
Precaution for where are you going and where you have been without knowing. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, by Joyce Carol Oates writes: a story of a young girl and her relationship with her family. This girl is name Connie she is constantly at war with her family. Oates demonstrates her absurd desire to grow up. Connie is a girl who flaunts her beauty which leads her to a terrible event with Arnold Friend which results to death. This story was sitting in the 1960s, when in American there
Critical Lenses While the feminist lens explores the victimization of women as a result of the predatory behavior of men, Joyce Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” can be read as an allegory. Ostensibly, the feminist lens seems like a perfect fit for the story; Connie chooses to leave with Arnold Friend, demonstrating her individuality as a woman by leaving the protection of her parents. However, when one realizes that Connie decided to leave her home only to be forced to live under
question that lingers in most critics mind is the identity of Arnold Friend. Subjected to multiple interpretations, Arnold Friends existence is central to the realistic hermeneutics. Connie asks with her eyes: “who is this guy”? Critics of the story have also indulged in this question and responded with varieties of interpretations. And for most of the critics, the answer monotonously is that Arnold friend is undoubtedly an enigma; his mysterious demeanor has given rise to much unrealistic speculation
opposing views, and not sourced hardly at all. The structure of an essay is supposed to be the mold and what keeps the reader interested. But this essay didn’t do that for me. It was very confusing on which order the author was going in with the piece and where she seemed to get her information. There was no building up to the worst point but it was just put down on the paper. Not to mention her statistics. Her statistics could have come from anywhere she had about three or
For my Social Media essay, I went through many process works to get my best work I have right now. The Social Media essay is located after my “Eleven” packet and before my PRLs (Personal Reading Logs). Before, we started our writing, we did a class survey, read a few articles, and watched two videos on social networking that described how it impacted daily lives negatively or positively. Through the survey we did, we were able to figure the percentage of our class of how long they use social networking
Have you ever thought about how easy it is to kill someone? Sometimes all it takes is to give someone a little push, maybe in front of a train or over an edge. However you will not actually do it and that is what keeps you sane. Even so, it is crazy how a diminutive action can instantly make you insane. This indicates that there is only a thin line between sanity and insanity and ones you have crossed that line there is no going back, which is exactly what Edgar Allan Poe is trying to convey to the
in Andrea Levy’s reflecting essay “The writing of The long song”, publicised in 2010. In the essay we hear how Andrea Levy got her motivation and inspiration to her book “The long song”. She stumbles upon the idea, when she hears a young woman asking; how she could be proud of her ancestors, when they had been slaves? Levy finds this to be an interesting question, given that her own ancestors were Caribbean slaves. Andrea Levy uses a circular composition in this essay. She wants us to feel and realize
think that he should have listened to the voice of reason in his head. Orwell is a young British police officer who is very unhappy with his life. He lives in mental isolation and hates the British among other things. He gets a report of a tamed elephant that has broken loose and is wandering around the Burmese village he lives in causing damage. When Orwell arrives at the scene he finds that a villager has been killed by the animal. Orwell then realized he was going to have to make the decision