In many books there are names and scenarios for the reader to ask themselves, “Now where have I seen her before?” According to Fosters findings, books are based on other movies, books, poems, etc. New literature is based on other people's works such as The Perfect Kiss, relating closely to the TV show The Secret Life of an American Teenager. Libby is a thirteen year old girl who searches for love in her father and to keep her broken family together. Libby’s father was once loving and falls under the influence to drink and is kicked out of the house. Libby loves her mom and wants to support her but hates to see her parents in a constant love hate war. Although the book and show have their differences. In The Secret Life of an American Teenager, Ashley, is the youngest and is learning to deal with a pregnant sister. Libby is in search …show more content…
Libby’s quest is to receive the perfect kiss from her major crush Zach Nash, the reasoning behind her wanting a perfect kiss started with an agreement with her best friend Nadine Tilson. “By our fifteenth birthdays we, Libby Madrigal and Nadine Tilson, will experience at least one totally real, sincere, meaningful, soulful, poetic, inspiring, knee-buckling, love-filled, journal worthy, insomnia-producing, appetite-reducing, mind-blowing, life-changing, unforgettable, undeniable, serious kiss.” (Libby) ‘ Obtaining this kiss will be harder than either one of the girls could possibly dream about. Libby soon will learn her parents making an “adult decision” by moving their entire family to the middle of nowhere ( Barstow) meaning a new school (Desert High School) and new boys. She also will face meeting her grandma who she was raised to think, died before she was born. Overall Libby must realize that her family moving to this new place, is not the end of the world, it is a new beginning with a new friend (Barbra) and new love interest
Author Joyce Carol Oates writes about a girl named Connie during the early 1970s who has a hard time facing reality and womanhood in the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” This fifteen-year-old girl is stuck in childhood in the beginning of the story and by the end of the story she is forced into adulthood due to an experience that is almost unreal. It is hard for Connie to determine if the experience was fantasy or if it was reality. Fantasy versus reality is one of the main themes in this short story and is shown through many different elements. The elements that writer Joyce Carol Oates uses are characters and symbols to create the theme of the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Books: a group of blank white pages where authors record memories, reveal what they imagined, and take us along on a ride through their minds. These past few weeks, I had been reading two popular novels that did in fact take me on that journey: The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton, and Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson. In no uncertain terms, I did notice that these two books could be compared to one another. Although these are two separate books, written by two different authors with separate journeys, they actually have great similarities and differences in the characters and plot.
From this, we can conclude that Zach’s character was a rapidly changing and very confusing mess. Zach’s relationship with Cammie's was also a rapidly changing and very confusing mess. Yet these two things, once studied, brought the readers to some very important ideas - such as themes about love, and
Have you ever read a book and then watched the movie and saw many differences? Well you can also find lots of similarities. In the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the movie “Tom and Huck” there are many similarities and differences having to do with the characters personalities, the setting, the characters relationships with one another and the events that take place.
When looking into works of literature, some stories seem to be similar to others. They can have a similar setting, point of view, theme, or sense of language and style. However, all of these points could be very different as well and could cover different theme or style. Flannery O’Conner’s “Good Country People” and Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” have some contrasting elements, such as their points of view and use of symbolism, but their similarities in the underlying theme, language, and the setting of these stories reveal how these two stories are impacted by education on both the individual and their family.
Joyce Carol Oates intrigues readers in her fictional piece “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by examining the life of a fifteen year old girl. She is beautiful, and her name is Connie. Oates lets the reader know that “everything about her [Connie] had two sides to it, one for home, and one for anywhere but home (27). When Connie goes out, she acts and dresses more mature than she probably should. However, when she is at home, she spends the majority of her time absorbed with daydreams “about the boys she met”(28). This daydreaming behavior is observable to the reader throughout the story. From theories about dreams, theories about subconscious thought, and the clues that Oates provides, the reader is lead to believe that Connie’s experience with Arnold Friend is a nightmare used to awaken her to the consequences that her behavior could result in.
Her first week as a freshman college student reveals a lot about the culture of undergraduate college students to her. It shows her a completely different perspective of their lives since she’s a professor, and times have significantly changed since she was a freshman. Obviously, it is very hard for someone of Nathan’s
One might ask Bethany Hagen, what her inspiration was behind such a unique novel her first response took her back to her childhood. Hagen grew up reading Jane Auste...
After Junior’s sister Mary dies in a terrible fire, he feels sad and alone. At school, his fellow students and friends make him feel better by giving him hugs and small slaps on the back. “They were worried for me. They wanted to help me with my pain. I was important to them. I mattered. Wow,” (Alexie 212). Back on the Reservation, Junior never felt important, which really put a damper on his confidence. However, at school he knows people care about him and it makes him feel good and appreciated. This experience impacts Junior’s identity and makes him a better, and more confident person. Junior goes to his first school dance, and afterwards him, his girlfriend, and a few of his friends go to a Denny’s to eat pancakes. He is poor and obviously cannot pay for the food, but he orders it anyways. Later that evening, his friend Roger finds out that he does not have enough money to pay. Instead of getting mad, Roger lends him forty dollars and goes on his way. When they got back to the school after having pancakes, Penelope, Junior’s girlfriend, finds out that he is poor and kisses him on the cheek. “But then I realized she was being my friend. Being a really good friend, in fact. She was concerned” (Alexie 127). This entire event shows Junior that being poor is not a bad thing. It lets him know that people will still be his friend even when they know he is
The stories are also told from the perspectives of Caitlin and Martin when they were teenagers, and it progresses through time. Caitlin’s side has a lot of parts about what many reader’s lives are like, such as being bored in class or having friendship troubles, which are entertaining to read about. Martin’s side of the story gives us a new side of life which most readers don’t know much of, and it is informative. As the story is nonfiction and all of the events actually happened, it makes the story more interesting. This story was written about the years of 1997 to 2003, from when Martin and Caitlin first started correspondence to when they met in real life.
In the story of “Life after High School” by Joyce Carol Oates, one of the main characters Zachary has a hard time with his love for Sunny. This leads to his death. Zach later shows the reader just how much he loves Sunny by asking her to marry him. Joyce Carol Oates introduces themes of growing up and transition from youth to adulthood and feeling the need to conform to other people to her short story “Life after High School” through a typical plot line about the love story of Zachary and Sunny. Which reveled a couple deep secrets of the three main characters. The author wants to make the reader believe that is a typical story, having a shy and goofy teenage by trying to get the attention of a popular cheerleader. That way reads can easily identify and relate to the characters and their positions during high school and Living behind masks.” masked identity.
...s the said “American Dream” impossible, although the teen does not acknowledge that it is impracticable. This lack of acknowledgment is not intentional, it is a misconception that they are led to believe due to the expectations set by society. Unavoidably the teens definition of success, given to said teen by a phony society, is a failure. When ones “American Dream” turns in a failing direction, and there is nothing ahead excluding debt and failure, nostalgia is a “backup pillow”, in which the adolescent would use to comfort themselves. Holden uses the individuals which are not defined as “phony” as a fallback, which Phoebe is one of. Contemporary adolescents and Holden are cohesive in this matter due to the fact that not all know what their personal definition of success will be, although all know what to fall towards if their success plan is inadequately executed.
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.
As she starts her teen years she is starting to think more about romance. She listens to other woman talking about their husbands, and she wonders if she wants one. When Jeanette is walking downtown she meets Melanie, a girl working at a fish stall. Jeanette gets a job washing dishes at an ice-cream shop, and eventually Melanie and Jeanette become friends. Jeanette brings Melanie to church so she can be saved by Jesus. After that, they spend more and more time together which eventually leads into them falling in love ...
Carrie chooses to leave her sister – the only real family she has in the city – and goes off with a Drouet, a man she just recently