Celine Du Ms. Poarch English 12 16 November 2017 “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”Literary Analysis about Family Relationship and Teenage Rebellion The teenage rebellion, which most of people experience during the puberty, always worsens the relationship between parents and children. Written by Joyce Carol Oates, the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” describes the condition and consequence of a family whose child is rebellious. Through the characterization, plot
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”Literary Analysis about Family Relationship and Teenage Rebellion The teenage rebellion, which most of people experience during the puberty, always worsens the relationship between parents and children. Written by Joyce Carol Oates, the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” describes the condition and consequence of a family whose child is rebellious. Through the characterization, plot, and dialogue, Oates successfully exhibits the thesis
in a fantasy world of love, sex and adulthood and ignore the reality of the possible consequences. People get consumed by their fantasies of what they wish their reality to be and end up in trouble when the real world strikes. In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Joyce Carol Oates uses fantasy and reality in order to convey the consequences of rebellion, and the reality of giving in to your fantasies and sexual desires. The main character of the story,
In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates shines light on the darker aspects of the average American teenage girl’s life. She shows how the stereotype of a feminine woman is that of someone who is physically weak and how due to this stereotype, women are harmed. She reveals privileges men have that women do not. Oates also indicates women are easily persuaded by men and are weak to a psychological attack by men. Joyce Carol Oates even goes as far as to substantiate every parent’s
Psychoanalytic Theory in “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?” In Joyce Carol Oates’s, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” fifteen-year-old Connie and Arnold Friend meet during a series of unfortunate events. Connie is a rebellious, defiant teenager, while Arnold is a dangerous, deceiving older man. After Arnold meets Connie, he convinces her to leave with him or make her family suffer the fatal consequences of her unwillingness to corporate. Upon careful analysis, Psychoanalytic theory
Literary Analysis of Two Texts Renita Redding Instructor: Irene Robles-Huerta ENG 125 March 21, 2015 The short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, by Joyce Oates, (1966), and the poem, “What it’s Like to Be a Black Girl”, by Patricia Smith, (1991), are both about the coming of age of young girls and the conflicts that they encounter. The two pieces explore issues that most young girls have with their bodies and others during their puberty years. The literary elements that will be
Foreshadowing and Tone in The Lottery The Lottery, published almost seventy years ago, has been a staple of required reading for young students in the United States. I recall being assigned to read this short story in middle school and thinking of it as just another assignment I was required to accomplish. I began reading, picking up on little hints and nuggets of information that didn’t sit right in my stomach before finally being hit with a gut punch at the conclusion of the tale. It was the
against Arnold Friend because of her lack of knowledge and the impact of American culture. The mother-daughter relationship plays a significant role in the story because had Connie and her mother communicated better, Connie, who is still a child, would have be protected from the evil of the world. Barstow also points out that the modern American is unable to distinguish evil from good. Evaluation: This article is useful to me because Barstow effectively shows the theme of loss innocence by using thorough
As we’ve previously encountered social network analysis with some of our readings like Franco Moretti’s article, “Network Theory, Plot Analysis” and with Shada’s presentation last week, I’m not going to go into too much detail about the basics of social network analysis since I think that would be kind of redundant. My presentation will focus mainly upon how social network analysis can be used in literary studies to enrich our knowledge of subsets within the English discipline, and even the discipline
The title of the reading that I chose to do a literary analysis on is Inferno by Dante Alighieri. What was this book about and what message does this particular ancient poem aim to explain? This epic poem was written in the fourteenth century and there were a lot of commentary involved in the story itself. Dante’s Inferno is widely seen as one of the greatest epics to ever grace textbooks. The text itself throughout this story speaks much to the concept of life and death and what the afterlife is