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Joyce Carol Oates, 2007.
An analysis of two of Joyce Carol Oates' stories; 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been' and 'Heat'.
2,581 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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The paper examines Joyce Carol Oates' short stories that deal with children or adolescents and unexpected threats and peril: 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been' and 'Heat'. The paper discusses Joyce Carol Oates' own experiences and her social and political viewpoints and concerns. The paper shows how her narrative style is authentic-sounding and fully convincing. The paper demonstrates how Oates is a feminist and how her feminist concerns are apparent within both stories. The paper also analyzes how Oates is both a nostalgic and a realistic writer.
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"For the narrator of "Heat" herself, life after the twins' violent death has simply gone on, with relative non-eventfulness and, ironically, what now triggers her distant memories of the twins and their horrible deaths is when she herself now goes to the area of the icehouse in order to make love. Violence and death was once, the narrator knows, literally "right around the corner" from where she now enjoys the ecstasy of lovemaking, but at the same time the memory of the Kunkel twins' fateful afternoon nearby, so long ago, though it remains sharp and vivid is also, somehow, at the same time, distant and surreal."
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Joyce Carol Oates, 2006.
This paper discusses the work of author Joyce Carol Oates, as a stylistic move from the journalistic to the literary.
1,313 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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In this article, the writer describes how the American fiction writer Joyce Carol Oates has not simply tackled issues of national importance in her novels. She also has a substantial critical body of literary essays and works of nonfiction. The writer discusses that over the course of her career, as Oates' has grown more prolific as a writer of fiction, Oates' nonfiction essays and writing have had an increasingly literary rather than a journalistic quality in the tone of Oates' prose, even while their subject matter has tackled issues of national importance. Referring to examples of Oates' literary works, the writer examines the author's concerns and style of writing.
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"The review of McCarthy precedes a flight of philosophical fancy, as Oates muses not simply about this novel, but about the style of the author and why his work compels her, and compels other readers, time and time again, despite the violent nature of McCarthy's prose. "No one would mistake Cormac McCarthy's worlds as "real" except in the way that fever dreams are 'real,' a heightened and distilled gloss upon the human condition." (Oates, 2005) Oates shows evident familiarity with the entire span of McCarthy's works, and the reader might have difficulty fully comprehending the review, had the reader not read Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, books that Oates has read and refers to as common knowledge in her analysis of how the masculine and bloody world of the author she is reviewing speaks to the extreme nature of the human life, not just in the Wild Wild West McCarthy chronicles, but in modern times. Her essay on Lear, in contrast, wrestles more with what Shakespearean critics such as Norman Lear have written about the Bard's use of narrative structure."
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Joyce Carol Oates: Romantic Relationships, 2002.
A look at the theme of romantic relationships in the novels "The Lady with the Pet Dog" and "Life After High School" by Joyce Carol Oates.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This five-page undergraduate paper discusses what "The Lady with the Pet Dog" and "Life After High School" by Joyce Carol Oates have to say about the satisfactions and frustrations of romantic relationships.
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Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, ...", 2006.
This paper discusses the theme of exploitation of popular culture in the short story by Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been".
1,335 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that In Joyce Carol Oates' popular short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been", the seduction of the teenage Connie by Arnold Friend is accomplished through his exploitation of the ideology that was transmitted through the medium of popular rock music. The author points out that the story is set in the American 1950s against the backdrop of drive-ins, the ever-present music conveys a superficial understanding of romantic relationships that forms the basis of Connie's understanding of her emerging sexuality. The paper relates that the prevalence of music in the text lends a mythological or fairy-tale quality to the narrative, which in large part describes the seduction to take place. The paper concludes that, due to the prevalence of a superficial understanding of the world and human relationships that is constructed by pop music culture, Friend is able to use the ideals of such songs as an illusion for his predatory nature.
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"Arnold Friend disguises himself in the clothing and mannerisms of the youth of the period, but does so in a manner that seeks not only to imitate others but to embody the ideals projected through the music. His arrival at Connie's house is connected to the music that Connie has been listening to inside her room, immediately creating an illusion of common interest: his transistor radio play "the same program that was playing inside the house." This serves to draw Connie out, initiating a brief discussion of the DJ that is on. Friend appears just a shade different enough from the other boys to create interest."
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Joyce Carol Oates's Victimization of Women, 2004.
This paper deals with the victimization of women in three of Joyce Carol Oates's short stories: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; "Heat"; and "The Molesters."
2,434 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper examines how Joyce Carol Oates is known for writing about violence towards women. It looks at how the situations she writes about are everyday situations that women face all over the world all the time and how Oates is excellent in bringing out fear through these situations. In particular, it focuses on "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", "Heat", and "The Molesters" as typical Oates's stories where women are victimized by men.
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"The villain in this story is Arnold Friend. Oates created a very frightening character here through his appearance and speech. Arnold wears dark sunglasses that do not let anyone see where his eyes are looking. This is quite creepy since he is probably staring her up and down, like a lion checking out his next meal. It is revealed that Arnold is not the young guy that he first claims to be, and is in fact around thirty years old, adding to his villainous nature. Another very disturbing part of Arnold is his friend that is waiting in the car the whole time Arnold is talking with Connie. This man "wasn't a kid either...he had...the face of a forty year old baby" ("Where..." 502). This adds to the fearful appearance of Arnold, since a forty year old man has no place there."
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Joyce Carol Oates, 2002.
A paper which introduces author Joyce Carol Oates and her novel, "Them".
2,390 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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The paper studies American author, Joyce Carol Oates, her childhood and writing history. The paper discusses Oates' third book, "Them" about an American family in the 60's, as well as other books by her including "Do With Me What You Will" and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?".
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"She loves to write, and can be very compulsive in her habits. When she is not working on a book manuscript, she "relaxes" by working on short fiction and essays. When she first began writing, she worried that some of her more gothic and horrifying fiction would not be taken well if readers knew she was a woman. "In fact, Oates was known to disguise some of her work. Early in her career, she sometimes masculinized her name with such variations as J.C. Oates" (Horne E15). She has also written several suspense novels under the name "Rosamond Smith.""
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James and Oates, 2002.
A comparison of Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw" and Joyce Carol Oates' short story "The Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 46.95
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This paper discusses how Oates' story is a compressed version of "Turn of the Screw". It explains how the setting and the names (or lack thereof) of the characters in question are the same. However, despite this initial sense of familiarity, the reader emerges with a very different ghost story when reading Oates' vision of James' world. It shows that Oates' story is comic in tone, rather than intent upon creating a sense of horror. Yet Oates' story also has far more subtlety than her predecessor James' story in its understanding of supposed female sexual repression.
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"Re-envisioning James' story was an ambitious project upon Oates' part. James' story initially seems to completely depend upon its gothic environment and setting to generate its sense of suspense. The governess is anonymous. This is true both from the reader's point of view but also in terms of the way the other characters, except the children, envision her. She is alone. She is unable to articulate her most basic physical desires in her environment. The passions of the dead servants become articulated in the children in her charge. It is as if her own desires have now, against her will, become voiced in the innocent faces of Miles and Flora, whose characters gradually become twisted with an adult sexual awareness. The remoteness of the local and the woman's isolation cause the reader to question her sanity until the very end of the tale. How could someone not go mad in such an environment, in such circumstances? The sexual repression inherent in the narrative's setting seems to be necessary to believe in the ignorant character of the unnamed narrating governess. How could a modern reader believe in a woman who was so innocent to her own sense of sexual knowing and her charges' developing sexualized, alien personas?"
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Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", 2000.
Critical analysis of contrasting literary elements in Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?".
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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"In literature, a coming of age story deals with the growth and change of a young person into an adult. Most coming of age stories show the events that guide the young person into acceptance of adulthood, but others, like Joyce Carol Oates' short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" use unusual literary techniques to communicate the theme to the reader. "Where Are You Going?" is unique because it contains literary elements that create a dichotomy between adulthood and adolescence, and between the protagonist's fantasies and the reality of Arnold Friend. Oates uses contrasting characters and images to show the reader the conflicts of Connie, the teenage protagonist of the story, and her sudden entry into the adult world. An analysis of "Where Are You Going?" reveals the conflicting literary elements Oates uses to convey her theme."
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"Where Are You Going?" and "Smooth Talk", 2008.
A comparative analysis of the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates and its film version "Smooth Talk".
1,560 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper looks at how the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, was primarily inspired by two sources. First, the serial killer, Charles Schmid of Tuscon Arizona, and second, Bob Dylan's song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." It then analyzes how Oates' short story was brought to life when Joyce Chopra directed the film named "Smooth Talk" in 1986 and how, although the film is inspired by Oates' short story, it greatly compromised her original vision.
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"First, Charles Schmid's killings in the 1960's were a primary source of inspiration for Oates' short story. He was notoriously famous for his "youthful magnetism". Schmid persuaded young girls to fall in love with him and later strangled them to death. He is very similar to one of the main characters in Oates' short story named Arnold Friend.
According to Hanna Miller of the Arizona Daily Star, "Charles Schmid, who's killings brought Tucson national attention in the '60s, was an unlikely teen idol who painted a mole on his powdered face and stuffed tin cans into his cowboy boots to add a few inches to his tiny frame." In comparison, Arnold Friend also stuffed his boots to appear taller for he too had a small frame and very persistent with persuasion. "
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"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", 2006.
An analysis of dionysian themes in a Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?".
3,240 words (approx. 13.0 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 93.95
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This paper examines the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates and seeks to show that, taken allegorically, this story does not speak of temptation to sin but rather speaks of the call to transcend and to become initiated. It attempts to show that this fascinating story is not merely a realistic allegory of growing out of childhood, nor a tragic story of rape and murder, but also a sophisticated modern-day retelling of the coming of Dionysus and the calling of the Maenad. It looks at how Arnold Friend is a type of Dionysus and how his call to Connie parallels the call of the mad god to his Bacchae and to the initiates in his mysteries.
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"Understanding Arnold Friend as an exemplar of Dionysus opens up far greater insight into the allegorical and mystical elements of this story. Dionysus was widely worshiped in the Greco-Roman world as a savior and an initiator into the mysteries of the self. (Freke & Gandy) He brought madness and death, certainly, but always this chaos was part of "the beauty and horror inextricably tied to the process of Becoming," (Mcginty, 165) and though he was a god of death he was also a god of resurrection who was commonly compared to Jesus by early Christian writers and their pagan contemporaries. (Freke & Gandy) With this in mind, several elements of the story may be re-evaluated. "
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?:, 2002.
A look at Joyce Carol Oates short story collection "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been ?"
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This six-page undergraduate paper investigates and applies three approaches of literary criticism concerning the Joyce Carol Oates short story collection Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been ? and discusses whether any approach helps the author understand the work more than any other approach.
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"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", 2004.
An analysis of the theme of the innocence of youth in the short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", by Joyce Carol Oates.
902 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper examines how the innocence of youth is characterized perfectly in Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" It looks at how the character of Connie discovers who she is and how she does things apart from her family to help her find her identity. It shows how Connie experiences new, stimulating emotions that are difficult for her to understand and how she illustrates the naivete of teenagers who wish to be grown up.
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"There are several statements that Connie makes that reveal her innocence. Connie is still like a child because she says that her mother "make me want to throw up sometimes" (328). Connie is also naive because she thinks she is getting away with something significant when she lies to her mother. Her false sense of pride is illustrated when she wonders if it is "cruel to fool her so much" (330). In addition, when Arnold Friend approaches her, she is friendly to him. For example, when Arnold starts talking about Bobby King, she relaxes and tells him that he is "kind of great" (332). She also asks him, "What's all that stuff painted on your car?" (333). These statements indicate that her guard is down and she is more not concerned with the idea that this mysterious person might hurt her."
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Symbols in Literature, 2002.
An analysis of symbolism in "Gooseberries" by Anton Chekov, "Heat" by Joyce Carol Oates and "Greenleaf" and "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" by Flannery O'Connor.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will discuss the use of the following symbols from the casebook stories: the gooseberries in "Gooseberries" by Anton Chekov; the bull in "Greenleaf" by Flannery O'Connor; clothing in "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" also by Flannery O'Connor; heat and ice in "Heat" by Joyce Carol Oates. By understanding these symbols, we can further realize how the authors try to convey meaning in their writings.
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"Heat" and "He", 2004.
A comparative analysis of Katherine Anne Porter's "He" and Joyce Carol Oates' "Heat".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper is an analysis of the similarities and differences between Katherine Anne Porter's "He" and Joyce Carol Oates' "Heat", including a conclusion that provides reasons for favoring one story over the other.
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"The short stories "He" by Katherine Anne Porter and "Heat" by Joyce Carole Oates share many similarities as Oates tended to re-imagine the works of classic writers. However despite a number of similarities in each work with respect to setting themes and ..."
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"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", 2001.
An analysis of an essay by Joyce Carol Oates which discusses teenage behavior.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 41.95
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This is an essay on Joyce Carol Oates', "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" It discusses several typical teenage behaviors that the character displays and compares these traits to a person known or observed in real life.
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"Connie is fifteen. She's cute and she knows it. She does what cute teenage girls do, she constantly checks her own reflection in every mirror she passes, almost obsessively. You never see unattractive or shy girls do this, only the pretty ones. Only the ones who look perfect all the time. The ones who spend hours in their rooms primping and preening. Mary is sixteen and like Oates' character Connie, spends hours in the bathroom. She has to spend hours in order to use all of the beauty products that
fill the shelves and tub. There has to be at least eight different kinds of shampoo in the shower. Three have the words 'extra sheen' on the label. Then there are at least five different hair conditioners. Next comes the body soaps. There are usually two solid bars of soap and about three bottles of liquid body wash of various fragrances, like strawberry, honey almond, and peaches and cream. Sleek new razors, not the ten in the pack cheap ones, and expensive shaving creams, again not the dollar brands, line the shower caddy. And there are always empty hair color boxes in the bathroom waste basket."
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