Select one literay element from the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” as my focus. I chose Symbolism

"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

Introduction

Joyce Carol Oates was inspired to write "Where are you going, where have you been?" After reading in the life of a charismatic but insecure young man who killed a temptation, and then in the 20th century, 60 early Tucson in Arizona, several girls magazine account. Into a fiction, the story was first published in literary magazines of the era, and in 1966, 1970, in Oates's short stories, including the love of the wheels. Praise and recognition so quickly, as early as 1972, critic Walter Sullivan pointed out that this is "a story of her most widely reproduced and fair." As the story of poetry books and frequent, reprinted in 1974, Austria Mainz itself as you go, you go where the story of a champion? The story of young Americans. This set of subtitles points Oates continued interest in adolescence, in particular psychological and social unrest occurs during this difficult time. She often thought of these issues with her face in contemporary society with the special pressures of young people keen feeling and it is obvious ''Where are you going, where have you been? ''

The story is that many regarded as one of Oates's best scholars, and in the Green Waller's words, it is "one of the masterpieces in the genre." Oates's realism so often Garners Praise, Criticism and readers have praised a typical teenager who may not like, compassion, and even identify with the story the central character, Connie, demo. Arnold credibility is similar to inculcate and manipulate the flow of conversation of friends in the psychological effects of youth victimization. Critics also praised the impressive language, it uses the symbol, and a fuzzy conclusion for different interpretations of the meaning of the story allows the story. In 1988, the film adaptation of the story is published a lecture entitled smooth.

Thesis Statement

Parents are not against their children because they are their enemy.

Discussion

Parents can never be the enemy of their own children's. Parents are always worried for the betterment of their children's as they always want good things to happen to them. If they are scolding you or are always against you, it does not mean that they are your enemy. Instead, it means that there is something wrong in your ...