Analysis Of 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

However, the author then specifies the girl's real intention: an adolescent crush on one of the actors. With very rare exception - and such exceptions are in need of mental health counselling - children are curious and seek information and media innocently. Nonetheless, institutions like the movie rating system are still in place, and are often a parent's first resource when

Williams writes, “All right, I will! The more you shout about my selfishness to me the quicker I’ll go, and I won’t go to the movies!” (Qtd in Barnet, Burto, and Cain, p.

Because the lack of family support and guidance, Connie lies to her parents of her whereabouts, and she sneaks away to local hangouts. While being out, she unfortunately catches the eye of Arnold Friend. This man will erase Connie’s innosense and expose her to how cruel the world can actually be. Many literary

Throughout the story, there are many instances: the illogical time and settings, the similarity between Arnold and Connie and the unrealistic events show that the meeting between Connie and Arnold Friend is a dream. The dream is also a preparation for Connie before she steps onto the stage of being an adult. Connie’s dream begins when she refuses to go to her aunt’s house for barbecue party. She stays home, and under the warmness of the sun, she begins her day dreaming about love and the boy she has met the night before. In the beginning, the author writes “Connie sat with her eyes closed in the sun…”

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 movie about the lives of conflicting personalities that continue until chaos happens and causes disaster within the household. The movie uses characters that disagree, do not get along, and bicker constantly to show the effects on the lives of the people surrounded by them. Not only do the characters contrast, but they also have many similarities and comparisons in the ways they deal with situations and the way they go about life every day. The movie starts by two sisters reuniting after several years with the urge to rekindle the love they once had; they are interfered when the husband of the younger sister constantly feuds with his wife, her sister, and everyone around him. In this film, the lives and personalities of Blanche and Stanley differ and also have some comparison in the ways they effect the people around them.

She allows her husband and sister-in-law, Richard and Winifred Griffen, to abuse both Laura and herself with their condescending words due to the sisters’ dependency on the Griffen’s finances. Despite her inheritance upon her father’s death, “[Iris] was still a minor, and was Richard’s wife. The laws were different then. What was [hers] was his.” Though progressively discontent with marriage to Richard, “he kept up appearances” and so, Iris followed suit.

You never truly understand what a person is going through until you not only walk around in their shoes but also climb into their skin. Many people cut one out just by their perspective but also we don 't take into consideration the possible right things because some don 't like to think another 's words are right. A simple ‘ how are you’ can have someone think you 're polite. Atticus no matter what always stood up for Boo, he knew him but his kids on the other hand did not so he told them they don 't know him or understand him they 've heard of everything about him but it was all wrong. The power of words is most important in this world, it is a do or don 't type of action.

The Wife of Bath begins to describe two of her husbands whom she thought were bad. First, her fourth husband, whom she married when still young, who liked to have fun, however he had a mistress. Remembering her wild youth, she feels nostalgic of how old she has become, but she says that she pays her loss of beauty no mind. She then confesses that she was his purgatory on Earth, always trying to make him jealous. He died while she was on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

One day he gives a bottle of coca-cola to her as a gift and his master beats him and sends him out of that place. She scares for two girls in the house; Shilpa, mumtaz’s helper and Monica, the best earning girl in the house and soon she is going to leave the place. They are rude to everyone, but later she learns that Shilpa is there of her own choice because from her childhood she is there. Whereas, Monica leaves the place but her own family refuses to accept her. So, she comes back but she develops a disease so she is thrown out of the house.

However, I think the clip from the Break-Up of Brooke and Gary were using destructive communication because the argument started out as a minor issue that escalate into a major problem. I believe this because of the couples reaction to how Gary responds to Brooke when she ask him are you going to do the dishes and Gary respond nonchalantly like cool, so this is when the destructive communication starts with the couple. Because Brooke had already been in an irritable mood, so her destructive communication defensive mode came into play, because how Gary was acting with not trying to help Brooke with the dishes, he just wanted to relax and play the game. Besides Brooke had already started the conflict mode because of Gary not just getting up and help her just clean the dishes, he wanted Brooke to do them tomorrow and now the couple is angry between each other because of Gary not want to help Brooke do

Other techniques that were used include hyperboles such as when the unknown hitchhiker also stated “If I opened my mouth it would spill out like a torrent of acid” (Page 24). The story also used the techniques of imagery where the hitchhiker described what their sister looked like “then the memory of Melanie’s grey face with the bruises around her neck and the dried blood in her hair jumped up to haunt me”. (Page 23) The writer, Sherryl Clark also used hook as she kept the reader guessing.

The Roaring Twenties roared because of the vast amounts of spending, the crime, and people just having fun, but Murderess Row really made the twenties roar. During the twenties women became more independent and women’s rights became a focus; whereas, in the past women just did household things. The woman of the twenties began to wear shorter dresses, cut their hair and some women even began to drink and smoke during this time period due to the advertisements that encouraged this ("Vintage Tobacco/ Cigarette Ads of the 1920s (Page 2)"). Many women even began to commit crimes, one of these criminals is Belva Gaertner. Belva was born on September 14, 1884 in Litchfield, Illinois.

The worst things came from this peer pressure. I have an experience and I know how it could be through my friend’s story. Peers influenced my friend to not go school and be a school hater student, go to parties, and date someone. After her parents knew that, she got into much trouble from her parents and from her friends.

“She thought, I’m not going to see my mother again. She thought, I’m not going to sleep in my bed again”. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been is a short store by Carol Oates. In the story, Connie was a 15 year old girl, and lived she out in a rural area. She lived with her parents, and her sister June.

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Essay Since it’s publication in 1966, Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” the character Arnold Friend has caught the attention of many critics and readers. Connie is a fifteen year old girl who has an encounter with Friend while she is home alone one summer afternoon.