Where Have You Been?Where Are You Going By Joyce Oates

1. Examine the darn of your essay. Explain the basis of reasoning. The report card begins by gifting Connies character. She is rebellious, self-centered, romantic, seductive, solely lacks experience. Her life was portrayed as a girl whose only confidence was rooted from her charm and beauty. Her normal life circles around cladding the mirror and making herself beautiful, being scolded by her scram, being compared to his sister, a father who dont took sentence for her, and hanging let on with her best friend. She loves to watch movies and listening to music.She meets boys but the story did not clearly portray of her having a boyfriend. That was once the constant life she had, then one day everything has changed. A stranger came in to their house when she was left alone. The stranger uttered promising words about escaping the cruelties she had at photographic plate and discovering the initiation where she could do everything she desires. She was fighting at deep inside at firs t. In the end she turned out to acquire a victim of a demonic character who seduced and flagellumened her through her weakness. . Explain the rootage and historical content of the article The theme of the story tackles on abuses on womens rights. The story withal portrayed closely problems associated with four-year-old ages care being unable to speak freely, and the lack of experience as a basis of making logical judgment. The historical content is closely associated with Womens Movement. It was also ground on a story about a psychopath on his early thirties know as The Pied Piper of Tucson. He loves to seduce women and then murder them.Most of her victims were teenagers in the Tucson area, for or so reason they kept his secret, deliberately did not inform parents or police. Oates has been very particular in devoting some(prenominal) of her writings for supporting Womens Movement. This is the response of many crusaders to rampant cases of abuses and violence physically, emotionally, sexually against women in the aside years. It was intensified in the year 1960s and early 70s and has become subjects of many debates and literature writings concerning vainglorious equal rights and opportunities for men and women.The movement is fighting for giving women equal employment opportunities with men, freedom to speak for themselves, and equipoise of power in handling their relationships with families. Most of her writings were fictional portrayals of real situations and cases occurring between sexes being women as the subject of violence. Critics believed that Oates occupies a controversial position in tradition of feminist literature. She portrays most of her female characters as fearful, reliant and passive for instance, Connie was portrayed as a young girl who has lived in the shadow of her mothers improper upbringing.She was always scolded by her mother and being compared to his older sister in her public characters and actions which her mother emph asized as indecent. That kind of situation was very miserable that shed wished shed died as a way of departing from it. She lives in fear and was unable to overcome it. Being portrayed as young at age clearly shows womens weakness that had turned them submissive and disregarded in most cases. Her mother as supreme over her portrays her position that is always searching to be heard.Being a victim of emotional abuse she ended up thinking of what is life outside her away from the family she hated. The hale story itself shows women as powerless against abusers. The story ended has a hanging ending, although she has escaped the cruelties at home but ends up at another abusers hands. While most critics have proscribe perceptions of her ideas about dependency of women, there are still who have defended the feminist sense in her writings.In fact, in her later works she was able to portray power of female bonds and their journey towards self discovery. 3. put out support or criticism to the essay of your own thought. Offer support (at least TWO references). The story calls for rouse. We should not abuse every authority we have because our actions have consider effects on concourse around us either physically or mentally. It has rooted deep influence on its readers that it has become one of the most widely reprinted stories that have appeared on many short story compilations.In 1972, Walter Sullivan observe the story as one of her most widely reprinted stories and justly so. Awakening is, in the storys final lines, travel out into the sunlight where Arnold Friend waits My sweet little blue-eyed girl, he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with Connies brown eyes but was taken up just the same(p) by the vast sunlit reaches of the convey behind him and on all sides of himso much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it. http//www. usfca. edu/southerr/works/film/smoothtalk. html). For Connie , it was an awakening of what is life out of home? And what is life in the real earth. When treated on our present society, there are lots of individuals who became members of cruelties by those who consider themselves powerful and strong. The wise have fooled many people by their promising words and imminent. Just like how Arnolds friend uttered promising words and threatening to force Connie to go with her.All throughout the story, there lines were temptations have succeeded over Connie. She never listen to her mom, but instead rebel inside and wished she and her mom would better die. Her young minds desire of having fun, and her vile desire for romance, and be able to grow old for her to escape from being tightened have exposed her to the world of the more experienced individuals. That is how Arnolds friend met her and have started to desire for her young and desirable charm and beauty.It happens in real life teenagers became victims of rape cases, involved in addictive vices, and do unlawful actions. The ethos of her writing was showed employ real life figures a mother, a sister, a friend, and the seducing old friend. Oates portrayed that everything that happens in our life has direct connection with the people around us. What we do and what they do have vice-versa effects on one another.The news of her writing was showed by presenting the demonic old friends method of seducing Connie in a logical way. He communicate of anything that Connie desired and feared that led Connie to surrender in the end. The Pathos of her writing was showed by using thrilling situations like the scene where Connie was left alone in the house and then Arnolds friend suddenly came to threat and seduce him. Connie has appeared pitiful and powerless compared to the older strangers actions.