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Connie: The Little Girl Hidden "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates starts with the kind of pressure like any other family goes through when there is a teenager involved. Connie, a 15 year old girl, who is worried of the way she looks even though she knows that she is very pretty. She has long dark blond hair and brown eyes, and she loves to wear shorts with a pull over jersey blouse and flat ballerina slippers with charm bracelets. This story starts with how…

Analysis: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city. And the old man said, “Where are you going? And where do you come from?” (Judges 19:17). Joyce Carol Oates wrote this story in 1966 by. Her fabulous short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” begins with a reference to the main character’s vanity. A compulsive habit of checking her reflection in mirrors to ensure she is better looking than others around…

In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, a gray haired woman, named Emily Grierson, fights against a generation much younger than her. In the battle against paying her taxes, Miss Emily had a mindset as though she owed nothing to this new generation. People of her age understood why she was pardoned of paying taxes. The reason for her feelings could have been because when she was younger, her father assisted the small town in a magnificent way. As Faulkner states in the short story, Emily’s…

Joyce Carol Oates was born in a small town in New York in 1938. Not much is mentioned about Oates’ childhood, other than her passion for writing that started early. She wrote many stories and even constructed short books in her elementary years. Oates tried to publish her first novel when she was fifteen, but was turned down because it was thought to be “too depressing” for children her age. Although there were many bumps along the road to becoming a great author, she is now rendered one of the…

English Essay One: In the stories of an “A Rose for Emily” and “Sonny’s Blue’s” there has been a common theme found in both stories the theme being Acceptance. In “A Rose for Emily” she is depicted as an elderly old woman in a town stuck between the transition of the past and the future. Everything around is moving forward but her she is stuck in her ways and is unwilling to change. The people around her don’t accept her lifestyle nor how she is as a person. For example, the townspeople start…

In the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, character is an important element, as shown at the beginning when the narrator says, “she was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right” (Oates). The narrator is referring to the protagonist of this story, whose name is Connie. Connie’s character is important throughout the entire story,…

A Rose For Emily Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily” has many prevailing and interesting themes, including Emily’s insanity, but the most interesting question is the origins of Emily’s insanity. To discover the cause of Emily’s insanity, one must first settle the matter that she was in fact, insane. Though Emily was raised very properly, just like a lady in the Old South, the last decades of her life she showed clear signs of mental illness. Before one begins to look any farther into…

William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is a short and hard story to tell. It is considered a Southern Gothic genre, influenced by the likes of European Gothic literature in its mystery and morbid feel. Southern Gothic writers like Faulkner were more interested in what appeared to them as anti-social southern behavior stemming from a social system built upon superficial tradition. Emily Grierson is the main character; she is portrayed as coming from a semi-aristocratic family allowing leeway for…

In Pieces of Why by K. L. Going, Tia, a teenage singer, uncovers the secrets of her childhood. Tia lives in a small apartment with her mother; ever since Tia’s youth, her father has been in prison for a robbery. Tia and her mother never speak about what happened during her childhood. Tia’s way of surmounting tension (caused by her home), is to sing. She is involved in the Rainbow choir, a mixed group of young teenagers who practice singing together in an unnamed church. One day during Tia’s…

In William Faulkner's, “A Rose for Emily”, the setting is a valuable key to the story’s meaning. The details Faulkner gives about the atmosphere and setting give the audience a background on the characters morals, beliefs, and reasoning to Miss Emily’s actions. The setting of “A Rose for Emily” gives insight to the the plot of the story that could not be achieved without it. Faulkner’s use of detail to describe the post Civil War town of Jefferson, the reclusiveness of Miss Emily’s house, and…