Adam Brown Prose analysis A Vital Conflict In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” In one of her well-known works, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Joyce Carol Oates presents an electrifying event in the life of a young teenage girl named Connie. Although numerous conflicts exist within this fictional account, there is one in particular that serves as the basis for the focal events of the story. That conflict is Connie’s relationship with her family, or more particularly her parents. There is constant friction between them, and although she is too naïve to recognize it, the fault is entirely her own. In Oates’ story, the conflict between Connie and her family develops from a combination of several sources, and it makes the story easier to relate to real life and thereby more meaningful as a whole.
Munro VS Callahan Comparison In the stories, “An ounce of cure” by Alice Munro and, “All the years of her life,” by Morely Callahan, we read about young people caught in situations of trouble from their past. These stories have a similar theme in that, while in a position of trust, the main character of the story makes a big mistake that finds them in a heap of trouble as a result. Yet these stories differ in that, the motivations of the characters are completely different. While the characters in both stories do learn a valuable lesson, they go about learning their lessons in different ways. In Munro’s story, while a teenage girl is babysitting for her neighbours, she decides to try some of the liquor that is left out on the counter.
Melina Marchetta’s novel Saving Francesca is written from the point of view of Francesca, a sixteen year old girl who has moved to a new school and is trying to cope with her mother’s depression. Having the main character relating the story allows the reader to feel close to Francesca as the reader can understand her thoughts and feelings. However, because the story is told through Francesca’s eyes the reader has to rely on Francesca’s assessment of a situation. In many ways Francesca is an unreliable narrator. She does not fully understand what is happening to her mother and many of her comments about her mother are incorrect.
The car she is driving, some old blue bomb, is abandoned outside the drug testing office. She’s walking several miles a day to the drug court office because people who are unemployed or not in school have to put in hours cleaning up the place. Finally, in July 2006, Dawn uses drugs and knows she will get caught. She makes up a half-hearted story but, truly, she’s tired. Tired of being a failure.
It described in great detail all the long nights of drug use and partying. I felt like I had been up all night with Kristina. The ending was not at all predictable. When Kristina returns to her mom's house to get clean from the drugs and to have the baby you believe that she will succeed. After she talks to her mother about not being able to provide for the baby and how difficult it was to love him, she decides to give the baby to her mother to adopt and raise.
• Holiday – Blackpool. Support hours? Staffing levels? • LR support most affected by issues discussed under Staff sickness/shortages heading. • Attending Wed Club weekly and not going to monthly disco • • PP • Very low/down and tearful (didn’t attend college this week) • Update on dizzy spells/medication • Update on bathroom refurb progression • CEA card has arrived and PP has been to cinema, so now an achieved and ongoing Goal & Aspiration • PP frequently changing mind on where to go on holiday and who to go with resulting in nothing being booked.
Apparently she was in bad form complaining about her house guest's (her personal publicist, Pat Newcomb, who had spent the night, woke at 9 A.M.) ability to sleep well while she couldn't. "I had been able to sleep and Marilyn hadn't," said Newcomb in an interview. "When I came out looking refreshed, it made her furious." According to Marilyn's neighbours, a man matching the description of Bobby Kennedy arrived at Marilyn's that afternoon. Hollywood
Throughout the novel, Lily Owens goes through many changes in the way she acts and how she perceives things. After accidentally killing her mother, Lily feels insecure and alone without a maternal figure. Rosaleen, her nanny, doesn’t exactly fit the role. This causes Lily to lack femininity and maturity as a woman. Over the course of the novel she learns to see past color and living with the Boatwright sisters allowed her to learn more about herself, her mother, and of course, bees.
We’re going to be late.” So I slowly drug myself out of bed because I had a restless night. As I put my softball shirt on “Hurry if you want to see Trevor before the games start” my mom said. So I hurried as fast as I could as she chuckled. It was a usual Saturday morning.
In life we face difficult periods but those times reflect us who we are. In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zola Neale Hurston there was a girl, Janie who went through many obstacles growing up. Janie’s upbringing affected her life choices by looking for love, being raised strictly, and not knowing that she was colored. She also had relationships that did not end well. Janie grew to learn how to go through struggles and overcome them.