Carol Dweck

Southern Gothic Literature is a genre of literature that takes place in the south, usually dealing with twisted and despondent elements. Existing “in a crummy little sh-ttown in Alabama, called Woodstock,” as John B. McLemore calls it, is “S-Town,” a podcast with narration by Brian Reed. Instead of being a classic piece of Southern Gothic Literature, “S-Town” grasps themes that make it into a more modern and contemporary piece of Southern Gothic Literature, which lets people relate with it.…

Australian Author, Tim Winton’s collection of short stories titled, ‘The Turning’, Includes 17 short stories connected through themes, locations and characters. Winton’s fascinating stories allow the reader to make connections between themselves, charterers and locations. Three short stories that hold a strong connection between the reader and the action of the stories, ‘On her knees’, ‘Damaged Goods’ and ‘Long clear view’. Throughout the engaging, descriptive short story, ‘On her knees’, Tim…

believe that among them is a murderer responsible for the deaths of the guests. Eventually, each of the characters dies, which is why the novel is called And Then There Were None. On the other hand, “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, follows a fifteen year old girl named Connie…

Reader Reflection Two In this story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oats a character name Connie is a self-absorbed 15-year-old blonde haired girl with her hormones going wild. She does not see eye to eye with her mother. Connie loves to go to the movies and to the drive-through to flirt with older men. Connie decides to ditch her friends to talk with the boy she likes. When she leaves to go to his car another man, which we find out later his name is Arnold Friend,…

one of the characters once mentioned, “I know what the world can do to a girl who only sees beauty in it.” Behind these lines there is real life significance. In this critical analysis, a short story, Where are you going, Where have you been? Joyce Carol Oates infuses a setting and imagery and allegory to convey her message of real life’s situation of a teenager’s loss of innocence, rape and murder. In her short story, the author took…

A Rose For Emily Literary Analysis Alejandra Cuellar As someone who lives in the South, the battle between tradition and modernization has always been prominent and discussed over the course of many years. In A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner uses a lot of symbolism to depict how life was in the Old South and how a post-civil war community is dragged through the arrival of progress. Faulkner uses tools of description and familiarity to address change in the South in a mature manner, while…

A Rose for Emily “When Miss Emily Grierson died…” is the enigmatic and captivating beginning to William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.” These words introduce a character and story that immediately capture the reader’s eagerness to know more. “It was a big squarish frame house that had once been white… Only Miss Emily’s house was left” (Faulkner 91). This first description of Emily’s home is our first look at the world she loves in. Throughout “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses many facets of…

Joyce Carol Oates is known for writing demented stories about adolescent girls craving attention from the opposite sex and trying and failing to find their path in life. Her most popular story with that such plot is “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” In this story, a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who, like every teenage girl, loves spending weekend nights in town and attention from the opposite sex. However, her innocence and vulnerability eventually lead her into the trap of a…

In the Introduction essay of the book written by Joyce Carol Oates, she explains how you are going to think and feel after reading a few of these essays. She notifies you on the different types of essays you are going to be reading and helps you have an idea of the action you will face. I really enjoyed how…

“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates are stories about two different teenage women, despite living in different eras and different social classes, who seek to change who they are because society tells them to. “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” is during the transition from the Victorian era into the jazz age, where women began to gain their social independence and the women’s suffrage movement, also known as “the first wave”.…