In this story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" a girl name Connie she was always so in love with how she looked that her mother didn't like that at all because that was all she cared about was her looks. Her mother would always talk good of her sister June because she didn't really care about her appearance like her sister. Connie's sister goes out with her friends so would Connie. Connie's best friend's father would take them to the mall and just leave them there for hours and don't ask how it went or anything. After he leaves they would run off to a drive-in restaurant to meet some boys instead of staying put where they were dropped off at.
Connie met a boy name Eddie that night who invited her to go out to eat. Connie left her friend at the restaurant to go with him. They went walking through the parking lot and she saw a strange man in a gold car. The strange boy smiled at her and said, "I'm gonna get you, baby." Connie hurried away from Eddie without him even knowing. They were together for three hours at the restaurant and at an alley. Sometime Sunday morning they don't go to nobody church. But her family left her at the house by herself as they went to a barbeque. After they left she did some stuff with her hair and sat outside to let it dry in the sun. She went in the house and listened to the radio. She heard a noise of a car coming up her driveway he blew the horn for her to come out. She looked outside and she seen it was the same gold car from the other night and she was scared. She looked out the door, and seen it was the same strange boy that she seen the other night.
The boy just was smiling and just started talking to her like he knew Connie. She was trying not to show that she interested in him because she didn't know who he was and kept telling him that she doesn't know him. He got out the car and pointed at his door which was his name which said "Arnold Friend.
Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? Throughout the short story, "Where are you going? ... "Where are you going? ... With the questions, where are you going, and where have you been, they might help to provide some reassurance in everyone's life. ...
During the years of adolescence, one goes through a time of confusion. ... In Joyce Carol Oates" short story, "Where are you going, Where have you been?" ... Connie is a young girl who is going through a point in her life where she felt that her mother did not understand her. ... He comes to Connie's house and draws a lot of attention towards Connie, "I took a special interest in you, such a pretty girl, and found out all about like I know your parents and sister are gone somewheres and I know where and how long they"re gong to be gone, and I know who you were with last night, and your...
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Connie, the main character of the story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?... Joyce Carol Oates overall described Connie as a pretty, young girl. ... Connie was not different. ... Joyce Carol Oates describes Connie from there different points in the story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?. ... Connie had the traits commonly found in a fifteen year old girl. ...
" (p.216) Inductive Reasoning (Conflict in Oneself) The essay, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?... 'Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think you're pretty?' ... A teenage girl, Connie, who turns out a two-sided person is unreasonable when you know the reasons what makes she have her personality. Family has an important role in one's life because who you becomes based on how you were raised in the family. ...
Having said that, Joyce Carol Oates, "Where are you going, Where Have you been?" ... His responds to her comment and shows he is not going any where without her: "He ain't coming. ... He tells Connie what she is going to do: ""Now what you"re going to do is this: you"re going to come out that door. You"re going to sit up front with me and Ellie's going to sit in the back You"re my date. ... And I"ll come in side you where it's all secret and you"ll give in to me and you"ll love me" (Oates 701). ...
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been is an example of an initiation story. ... In Connie's case, if you have no personal identity, you cannot survive. ... Connie quickly leaves her child's fantasy world and begins to almost separate from her old self, "She watched herself push the door slowly open as if she were back safe somewhere in the other doorway, watching this body and this head of long hair moving out into the sunlight where Arnold Friend waited."" ... The story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been is a perfect example of an initiation story. ... She goes from da...
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The techniques that Joyce Carol Oates incorporated throughout "Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been," are ineffective in making this a believable narrative. ... The author foreshadows that Connie was going to die. ... You can see this clearly when he says to Connie, "I"ll tell you how it is, I am always nice at first, the first time. ... "Where you are going, Where have you been?" ...
Takes a Back Seat "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... This scene takes away from Connie's innocence as she goes into her encounter with Arnold Friend. ... The movie ends with Connie being raped and then going home with a new appreciation for her family. ... (Oates 391) Throughout the story you see Connie as this bitchy conceited, selfish teenage girl, but at the end your heart goes out for her. ... "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" is a good written story, but not so effective on a screen. ...
