Joyce Carol Oates Research Paper

Decent Essays
The Weird life of Joyce Carol Oates “Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, New York. She grew up on her parents' farm, Outside the town, and went to the same one-room schoolhouse her mother had attended. This rural area of upstate New York” (Oates, Joyce Carol. "Joyce Carol Oates Biography" She starts to write when she was a little girl she was having a lot of different types of problems with her mother and father she was very confused, depressed and lonely she was staring in her adolescence, she was trying a refuge in the books, in the literature and writing. She was the best example on darkness and dramatic writing on her the way she used the literary devices and how she change the society,

For example, she wrote very darkness and dramatics

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Suzanne Collins is an American writer who is known for writing The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games series. Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962 in Hartford, CT. Some of her family consists of her father, Michael, her mom, Jane, a sister, Kathy-Janie, and her brother, Drew. In her early years she ended up moving several times to places such as New York City and Brussels because her father, Michael, was an Air Force pilot. During her time of moving she enjoyed doing gymnastics, training in sword fighting, reading, running, and spending time out in nature.…

    • 318 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Charles H. Odom was born on February 29th, 1932 in Arlington Kansas in Reno County. He was the son of Barney E. Odom and Mildred R. Odom. He was 32 when he died via gas chamber on March 6th, 1964. He was arrested on July 23rd, 1961 for the rape of a thirteen year old girl, Lisa Schuh. He was a resident of Wellington, Kansas.…

    • 390 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    On July 22, 1950, Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Growing up in such a small town, there was not much for a young girl like Hinton to do, so her interests revolved around reading, writing, and horses. Hinton noticed that there were not many books that she wanted to read. Too many books were about perfect characters with perfect lives; she wanted characters that were real, with real problems. After giving up her dream of being a cattle rancher, Hinton thought of herself becoming a writer.…

    • 160 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Those stories were emblematic and monotonous to her. Susan novels changed how people felt about young adult literature. When she was in junior high school, her father was…

    • 1683 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Martha Grimes is well educated and has had a variety of educational experiences. She attended The University of Maryland where she earned her Master's and Bachelor's degrees. She additionally studied poetry at a Writers' Workshop at The University of Iowa. Her career started to pick up when she taught English at The University of Iowa, Frostburg State College, and Montgomery College. In addition, she taught a seminar on detective fiction at Johns Hopkins University.…

    • 91 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A young woman voyaging through the thick jungles of Africa; telling cannibals of Calabar, West Africa the good news of the Gospel. This woman’s name was Mary Slessor. Being a missionary to the cannibals of West Africa was no easy task, but Mary Slessor’s life was never easy. She was born in 1848 in Scotland to a family of nine.…

    • 251 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Graduating 152 out of 570 Carol Bilodeau. She graduated college in 1972. She keeps in touch with one friend on facebook who went to school with her from elementary through college. Carol graduated high school in 1968.…

    • 228 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Every college student has their own opinion on the choice of selections that they are forced to read. Depending on each person and what interests them, a story can be enjoyable or even uninteresting. Also, depending on the religious background, a story might even be offensive in some ways. Every person has their own opinion about reading in general. The four selections, “Life after High School”, “A Rose for Emily”, “A Jury of Her Peers”, and “Bartleby the Scrivener”, all have different reason for being included in my text book.…

    • 802 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” written by Joyce Carol Oates is an unsettling and incredibly formidable story of a young woman’s loss of innocence during a time of social change, unrest and turbulence.…

    • 1410 Words
    • 6 Pages
    • 6 Works Cited
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Joyce Carol Oates wrote This I Believe: Five Motives of Writing explaining the five different motives of writing commemoration, bearing witness, self-expression, propaganda, and aesthetic object. “Commemoration” (Oates 1) is the remembrance method, where it can be ancestory, legends, myths, or family. "Where a story or a novel is set is at least as significant as what the story—the plot—“is.”" (Oates 1). “Bearing witness” (Oates 1) structure is what is going on in the world, what happens in history.…

    • 294 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Joyce Meyer Research Paper

    • 1278 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Joyce Meyer, born Pauline Joyce Hutchison on June 4, 1993, is one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers. During her childhood, Joyce was abused sexually, emotionally, verbally and physically. Enduring a traumatic childhood, she now teaches on a number of topics with a particular focus on the mind, mouth, moods, and attitudes. Her candid communication style allows her to share openly and practically about her experiences so others can apply what she has learned to their lives. Through her troubled childhood, Joyce has grown into an amazing charismatic Christian who shapes others’ lives tremendously.…

    • 1278 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Born in Lockport, New York on July 16, 1938, Joyce Carol Oates has and continues to create a legacy in literature. Publishing over 40 novels, many short stories, multiple plays and novellas, Oates is greatly recognized for her impeccable writing abilities. Oates began writing at the age of 14, when she received her first typewriter. Oates transferred from big schools to even bigger, suburban schools and graduated from Williamsville South High School in 1956, where she then worked for the high school newspaper. Out of her three siblings, Oates was the first to complete high school.…

    • 224 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Hello, Im Jamie this is the year of 2075. Today in my reading class we had to write a essay about someone important to us and also state well known facts about them and tell what they have did and how they did it and how it helps in today's life. I choose to write about a special women named Lynette Brown, she is like my favorite piece of candy she’s a LIFESAVER . Literally what she did for the world was amazing, she saved lives she's my hero, She’s everyone's hero…

    • 614 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Edgar Allan Poe, was a person of great uniqueness, for his life was a great obstacle with many up and downs. With one of those Great achievements was his narrative poem, “The Raven”; Published in January 1845. That clearly shows his well known writing style of a dark metaphysical vision, musical rhythm of his poems, and style in a metrical language. As well, Poe writing clearly reflects on his extraordinary life that show his true meaning of his work and why his, work is looked upon to, by so many. Edger Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1807 and died on October 7, 1849; he was a very well known; writer, poet, and critic.…

    • 2181 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Joyce Carol Oates “Where Is Here” uses transformation to inflict fear upon the reader by showing scare people because it shows how a n ordinary household normal house can change in an instant and make the reader uncomfortable. This is effective because it goes to show how ordinary scenarios can transform into unordinary scenarios at any given time. In contrast, “The patterned wallpaper seemed drained of color” (76). This is unordinary because it goes to show how before the stranger visited the family, their lives and the house were completely normal, and after the stranger left the house seemed “out of place.” The house was realistic before the stranger since it was colorful, however when the stranger left, so did the color.…

    • 212 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays