“Teens are Victims of Pedophiles” In the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” by Joyce Carol Oates, the author describes a 15 year old pretty girl named Connie. Like many teens, Connie has the feeling that her family does not understand her and how everything she does is not good enough. She thinks she is older than she is but shows her immature side in the way she walks described as “childlike and bobbing” at home but once given the chance to go out with friends, she wants to be more grown-up. She wears “bright pink” lipstick to make herself appear more mature. Music is big part of her life and it is mentioned through-out the story.
Alice Bailey ENC1102 Smooth Talk Smooth Talk is a movie modeled after the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been. The Protagonist of this story is Connie Wyatt. She is a fifteen year old, young girl who is sneaky and secretively living a different life style away from home. Connie is also rebellious, selfish, and flirtatious. She seems to be in a hurry to grow up and experience the sexual pleasures of life.
They talk about the Halloween dance and who they will bring. That night they both babysit kids within a block of each other. They even hitch a ride together to those houses. As the girls are traced throughout the film, they contrast each other through both their opposing priorities and, more importantly, through their sexual experiences. In the end, Laurie is more suitable than Annie to be the only survivor in the film.
The narrator was an adult woman, looking back as she remembered her childhood and how Jem, her brother, broke his arm. Lee might have chosen Scout as she was a child and children have different views than adults. For example and adult wouldn’t be frightened of Boo but Scout was and had childish imaginations. Another fact was that there won’t be any arguments against Scout as she is just a young girl. However if this was an adult, like Atticus there would be arguments against him and he might even be punished being against racism such as the trial.” Because you are children and you can understand it”.
This makes other characters in the town realize that as well, making them turn to color. -confined communities The kids in The Giver do sometimes go on field trips to other communities, but besides that they do not know what is beyond their community. They have no idea how big the world
She finds a homeless person named Ann and confronts her about her being homeless. Ann disagrees and shows a picture of a rundown house even though Ann has been living in a bus terminal for the past two weeks. So it is apparent that Ann does not live in that home anymore. The author then goes on an elaborates about how home is where you make it, and it is not the big picture of things but it’s the little details that make home, home In the two essays “I Want a Wife “and “Homeless” are two very interesting stories. They capture one’s attention for various reasons for the start.
An Underling Theme: A Comparative Essay Bethany Dowdy ENG 125 Macy Dailey August 5, 2013 “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty and “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys, at first blush, do not seem to be related in theme. When looking at short stories it is impossible to see it all in a literal form; there is always some sort of underlying context that occurs within the body of the text that adds insight to the story. One is a short story about a woman going to town through woods; the other, a story about a woman revisiting her old home. In reviewing the journey of each piece, however, the relationship is clear. The underlying meaning or theme of a story is often depicted through symbolism, but what is symbolism?
In the movie Juno, teenage pregnancy is the main focus. Juno is not the boldly promiscuous sex-a-holic teenager that is typically portrayed on shows like Ricki Lake and Maury. Instead, Juno is a normal girl who feels slightly out of place in high school and finds the whole situation of adolescence a bit meaningless. She is wise enough to know she does not have the maturity to become a mother or to make some of the decisions she now must make, but immature enough to tell the struggling adoptive mother that she is “lucky to not be pregnant.” In the movie, Juno has to deal with the judgmental stares of adults and friends at school, insults by an ultrasound technician, and of course the painful decision to keep the baby and give it up for adoption rather than have an abortion. Although this movie does have its funny moments and is in some ways an excellent interpretation of teenage pregnancy, the fact that many of the more serious emotional and physical side effects are left out cannot be ignored.
If you think about the movie ‘Parent Trap’ where identical twins meet for the first time at summer camp, it portrays one of the twins as coming from a rich, well manicured background and the other from a more rough, rural background. The 2 girls in the film are completely different, one being stuck up and scared of adventure while the other sees life for what it really is and lives and breathes adventure. This shows that, though people could have exactly the same genetic makeup, they could have completely different personalities. There are some drawbacks to this technology though. One of the major questions I ask is ‘Where do we stop?’ Who is to say that enough is enough and we’ve gone too far?
My mother told me to talk to her and invite her to play. My mother also helped me think differently, since the little girl wore the same cloths almost every day and her hair wasn’t always combed. My mother said, “She might not have water on at her house and maybe she doesn’t have a comb. She could even be homeless and never had a friend.” She said, “If you talk to her, you never know