A girl is leaving a teenage dream with her best friend but things have changed no one speaks to her and her best friend staring at her, but her best friend has something to tell her which could change everything. Why it's always there when I come back from school? It's like it follow's me home. I feel like I'm constantly being staked in my own home, they say stuff like this is insane, not natural and strange. Well this has been my natural life for two long months now. Every day I'll wake up and nothing it's like it's gone everything that scare me and haunts me, just empty, totally disappeared. So I have this friend called Sam, I tell her everything, well everything except me being crazy. Sam came up to me as always. She isn't like most girl's she's totally funny, short brown hair, wears cartoon characters quite stylish if I must admit, she is a person to tell all my treasures to all but one. Sam has starting to seem different maybe she's noticing something, something out the ordinary about me . Well I couldn't blame her she's my best friend, but I don't like hiding something from her, how would I explain it? Do I say oh Sam I'm being stalked after school at my own home? Anything I say would make me completely and utterly bizarre. What if she decides she doesn't want me as a friend anymore? These entire questions are gathering up inside my mind waiting to set free and explode my brain. I'm lost in my own body and can't free myself. …show more content…
How on earth she can say I'm not real? Of course I'm real, I thought she meant to be there for me like friends are, not brutal stab me in the back or in this case my heart! I feel like exploding, Shouting at her, but I couldn't find the words inside me. Wait a minute why she isn't talking to me? She just can't leave me after what she said. I have never been so angry on myself for being angry with my best friend. I'll scream to her if I have to, I'm ready now I want to know why.Why she thought of me like
and I am afraid of facing it, and I know I need to be stronger, but how? She was fourteen, and I am fifteen now. She needs to face death and I don’t. Why can’t I do it if my circumstances are way easier than hers? She had taught me that you can choose to degenerate or move on.
The girl wakes up early one morning and walks to school in the dark. She wanted to go to school where she felt people would care if she ran off, and be in a stable loving environment much different than what she had at home. She seeks the help from her teacher to give her the stability she need to get her through the day. At her sanctuary she cannot help but feel “in an overcrowded and unhappy home it was easy for any could to slip away (Barry 143). Her environment is so unhappy and bleak it is only human to look for an outlet for a little happiness.
During the years of adolescence, an individual goes through a period of time which causes confusion and curiosity, where finding themselves is inevitable. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates takes the reader on an adventure of rebellion as the protagonist, Connie, sorts through a sketchy situation with her own self-experiences. Connie, through her confusion of life, creates a devilish nightmare that is a subconscious manifestation of her desires for attention from the opposite sex. The feeling of helplessness and loneliness is a major characteristic of a nightmare that seems to linger in Connie’s minds. Through her journey, she finds that she is a helpless heroin and cannot control the events occurring around her.
Connie, in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” encounters this experience, and falls victim to danger. Connie’s conscience will place her in a dream to help her see the threat that will be coming her way if she does not stop. Connie is a fifteen year old girl filled with insecurities, and depends on others’ reactions to her to make
Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is a chilling tale based on true events that occurred in the 1960’s. The story is about a young girl’s daydreams that turn into a nightmare as she face the evils of reality in the form of Arnold Friend. Arnold Friend represents supernatural figure and he has set his sight on Connie. He will take Connie from the safety of her home and childhood to the “excitement “of the real world.
The message she is trying to convey is that you
Who am I? Who are we? Where do I belong? What is self identity? These are a few questions that people will ask themselves within their lifetime.
“Who am I?” “Who are you?” Does anyone really know the answer to these questions? The answer is: very few. Very few people can develop a sense of self.
Youth and inexperience fuel vivid daydreams in the young girl who feels inadequate. She sees her parents as unhappy, she doesn’t view herself as being attractive or worthy. Her fantasy life forms an escapism that suddenly gives her power and control. Sammy, on the other hand, is older and uses escapism to help him understand and cope with not only members of the opposite sex, but understanding the dynamics of society.
So I sat beside her then started making a conversation with her. At that moment, I noticed that she had something hidden in her heart like a secret or something that made her uncomfortable. When I asked her why she looked sad all the time? She told me that she had an alcoholic father. She mentioned that her father was treating them badly, and torturing her mother and her sister.
Then I would panic and rush to fix everything before she got home, I always got it straightened back up. Everything seemed to be going downhill for me, my doctor put me on the highest dose of anti-depressants she could. I started shuffling through life and nothing but Phoebe brought me, even a little bit of joy. She, however didn 't feel the same about me, she started getting up earlier in the mornings, started leaving before I could even kiss her goodbye once, came home hours after her shift ended, started taking anti-depressants herself, and went straight to bed without even a 'hello ' to me.
To be sincere, I am not upset at all about what happened tonight but you said I did not talk to her, which is why she is disrespecting you. That is funny though, I did talked to her in length about everything but did not listen to everything I said. I do not blame her for not listening to everything, as we all know, individuals are entitle to their opinion. I am pretty sure you do not listen to opinion sometimes, so do I.
I woke up terrified , those nightmares they keep happening. I was thinking to myself saying why haven't they went away. But suddenly my thoughts were disturbed by the yelling of my sister. I got out of bed and went down stairs where i had seen my sister jill making breakfast , she turned around and saw me , then she asked “ nightmares again ”. I answered “ yes ”.
Most people will come across a person that they will become very close with and call them their best friend. Zach Martin is my best friend and there are many reason for that. He is a very trust worthy person, he is fun to be around, and he is like a brother to me at this point. Also, if I ever need help with something he will come to help me if he can. Zachary Alan Martin is 5’8” and weighs approximately 170 pounds.