form of art.” Joyce Carol Oates reveals her very realist outlook though this quote, which she stated on a PBS interview in 2008. As an American Author from 1963, being a woman writer was overlooked, however, she managed to make a career out of something she started to love as a child. Throughout this speech, I will tell you about Joyce’s life, the book of hers that I read, and how she connects to what we’ve learned in English Lit thus far. BODY 1. The Author Joyce Carol Oates was born on June
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Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Is Here?” as a contemporary Gothic ghost story According to the editors of the Prentice-Hall Literature text entitled The American Experience, author Joyce Carol Oates’ discovery of the stories of Ann Radcliff and Edgar Allen Poe “sparked her interest in Gothic fiction” (324). These Gothic elements typically include “bleak or remote settings, macabre or violent incidents, characters in psychological and/or physical torment, supernatural or otherworldly elements, and
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yce Carol Oates EssayJoyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” tells the tale of a fifteen year old girl named Connie living in the early 1960’s who is stalked and ultimately abducted by a man who calls himself Arnold Friend. The short story is based on a true event, but has been analyzed by many literary scholars and allegedly possesses numerous underlying themes. Two of the most popular interpretations of the story are that the entire scenario is only dreamt by Connie and
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attacked, and on the verge of being killed by someone popping up in my face. Transformations obviously create fear. This can be shown in the following three stories. Joyce Carol Oates “Where is Here”, Julio Cortazar's “House Taken Over”, and Arthur Tress’s “the Dream Collector” all transform by using suspension to prove Joyce Carol Oates “Where is Here” transformation scares readers because it goes from being a nice day to becoming creepy by an unwanted visitor. This is effective
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Everyone experiences transitions in their lives. Sometimes these changes are insignificant, like a change in schools. Sometimes these can be major life changing events, like the passage from childhood to adulthood. In Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, the author uses a borderline crime story to investigate a loss of innocence and the unknown future. "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" consists of two main focus scenes: the world Connie thrives in and the day
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know to be as boxing and also to Joyce Carol Oates, “The Cruelest Sport”. “The Cruelest Sport” gives background of not only the dangers of boxing but also how the energy and momentum of this sport is what keeps these raging fans for more action. Oates does not write this paper to talk about the negative, but through it you can see that she too
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The Truth Behind Arnold Friend In Joyce Carol Oates short story, “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?”, it is argued that the antagonist in the story is the incarnation of evil; Arnold Friend. Connie, the protagonist in the story, was a naïve fifteen year old who was fascinated by boys and was constantly out of the house with her friends. She always talked about the positive effects of her looks, but never realized the negative attention that could draw from how she dressed and acted outside
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In the Romantic Works, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edgar Allen Poe explore the nature of violence through Gothic Elements. In Joyce Carol Oates works such as “Where is Here?”, and “Where Are You Going,Where Have You’ve Been”, and Edgar Allen Poe’s works such as “The Raven”, “A Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Black Cat”, both of the author's give a form of imagery to create the feeling of violence. Such as Oates creates indirect violence, hidden within the lines, where Poe, has more explicit and direct violence
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her friends in the short story, “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been,” by Joyce Carol Oates. “And Connie paid close attention herself, bathed in a glow of slow-pulsed joy that seemed to rise mysteriously out of the music itself and lay languidly about the airless little room, breathed in and breathed out with each gentle rise and fall of her chest.” In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, we find Connie and her friends are/seem shallow. We know this because they worship
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