Reader Response Essay - Joyce Carol Oates's Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? As I began reading “Where are you going, where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates I found myself relating the experiences of Connie, the girl in the story, to my own personal experiences. She spoke of going to a friend’s house and having her friend’s father drive them to the shopping mall so that they could walk around and socialize or go see a movie. I found that this related very closely with my own experiences of being fifteen years old because it was always someone else’s parents driving my friends and I to the movies or to the mall. However, as I continued to read the story I began to wonder if maybe Connie’s life was not in any way parallel to my own. I have a younger sister where she has an older sister, but that is where the similarities end. Her mother is always telling her that she should be more like June, her older sister. It seemed to me that June living with her parents at her age was unusual, but the fact that she seemed to enjoy this and was always doing things to h...
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The Theme of Temptation in “Where Are You Going , Where Are you Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is about a young girl's struggle to escape reality while defying authority and portraying herself as a beauty queen; ultimately, she is forced back to reality when confronted by a man who symbolizes her demise. The young girl, Connie, is hell- bent on not becoming like her mother or sister. She feels she is above them because she is prettier. She wants to live in a "dream world" where she listens to music all day and lives with Prince Charming. She does not encounter Prince Charming but is visited by someone, Arnold Friend, who embodies the soul of something evil. Arnold Friend symbolizes "Death" in that he is going to take Connie away from the world she once knew. Even if she is not dead, she will never be the same person again, and will be dead in spirit. With the incorporation of irony, Oates illustrates how Connie's self-infatuation, her sole reason for living, is the reason she is faced with such a terrible situation possibly ending her life.
In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Oates wants to show a more intellectual and symbolic meaning in this short story. Oates has many symbolic archetypes throughout the short story along with an allegory. Oates uses these elements in her story by the selection of detail and word choice used. Oates does this because she wants to teach her audience a moral lesson.
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Oates drew the character of Connie very well - she possesses many of the qualities that teenaged children share. According to developmental psychologists, adolescents become highly critical of siblings, and peer relationships take precedence over familial ties during these years (Feldman, 455). These traits are apparent in Connie’s unflattering description of her older sister June, “…she was so plain and chunky…” (209) and the fact that Connie spends many nights out with friends, but refuses to attend an afternoon picnic with her family (211).
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Full of suspense, personality and adventure, Monkey by Wu Ch’eng-En is considered to be one of the most influential works of Chinese literature in history. The 16th century novel follows the demanding journey of a small group of travellers — including the carefree, trickster character Monkey — from Chang'an to India on a quest to acquire ancient scriptures. By reading Monkey, one can acquire knowledge about several important aspects of ancient Chinese culture, the most prominent being the path to nirvana, an idea present in Buddhism— known not only for being China’s oldest religion, but for being one of the most widely followed religions in modern China as well.
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The validity of psychometric tests is determined within the range of construct validity meaning whether a test is measuring a construct it is supposed to be measuring. Accordingly, Schotte et al (1997) presents a study with 338 patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder according to the DSM-III. The paper determined 2- and 3-factorial structures of BDI. The two –factorial structure could be summerised as one factor representing cognitive/psychological dimension and a second factor elaborating on somatic/vegetative aspect. Consequently a three factorial structure emerges where the factors are respectively ‘Anhedonia/Inhibition’ which measures mood, somatic inhibition, etc; the second factor being ‘Negative self concept’-pessimism, self-perception, etc. and the last factor- Somatic complaints. The second factorial model of BDI is in strong correspondence with a research by Steer et al. (1987a) who also indentified 3 factorial components of the instrument. Affective and performing difficulties, self-denigration and physiological disturbances present the structure presented in this study. The data which is the experiment based is drawn from 300 outpatients diagnosed with Major depressive disorder – a similar sample to the afore presented
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