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Story Week Festival of Writers: Joyce Carol Oates - Chicago Public Radio

Gavin Cologne-Brookes moderates this event with world-renowned author Joyce Carol Oates. The Columbia College Chicago Fiction Writing Department presents its 14th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers from Sunday, March 14, through Friday, March 20 ...

Hilary Mantel, Richard Holmes Win at 2009 National Book ... - Wall Street Journal

Princeton University professor Edmund White discusses his contemporary and Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 winner Joyce Carol Oates. Joyce Carol Oates picked up her first lifetime achievement award Thursday night at the National Book ...

Joyce Carol Oates Goes Home - Discovery Travel

The prolific author explores the meaning of place and home in a piece for Smithsonian magazine . Writers, particularly novelists, are linked to place. It’s impossible to think of Charles Dickens and not to think of Dickens’ London; impossible to ...

Book critics honor Oates for lifetime achievement - Princeton University

Author and Princeton professor Joyce Carol Oates has been awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. The prize, which recognizes the winner's dedication to book culture, was presented to Oates at a ...

Connington Brings Oates' Zombie to Life in NYC Starting ... - Playbill

Actor-playwright Bill Connington shows his dark side to New York City audiences with the March 10, 12 and 13 presentation of his own adaptation of Zombie , the Joyce Carol Oates novel about a serial killer. Performances play the Gerald Lynch Theater ...

Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ wins fiction prize in NYC - Herald Times

Honorary awards were given to Joyce Carol Oates for lifetime achievement and to New Yorker dance critic Joan Acocella for excellence in reviewing. The NBCC awards were established in 1974. No cash prizes are given.

Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' wins National Book Critics Circle Prize ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer

In "October Country," brutality is part of life - Denver Post

"October Country," which sometimes seems like a Joyce Carol Oates novel rendered as a documentary, takes place in a stretch of the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York. Directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, a couple collaborating on their first ...

Mantel's Wolf Hall wins US fiction prize - Shepparton News Online

Who's More Evolved Than Whom? - Hartford Courant

As Joyce Carol Oates told the New York Times last year: "I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming. I think some of my male colleagues ... are completely denied this pleasure." That's because it's not in their genes, Joyce.

Open Question: Why is Joyce Carol Oates' writing so violent?

Did anything traumatic happen in her life?Actually, you should read her works, The Feminine Species for one. They are almost all centered around violence. Im simply wondering if something happened to make her view life so cynically. For instance Edgar Allen Poe witnessed his family's death which caused him to write such graphic novels. more

Resolved Question: Which of Joyce Carol Oates' short stories aren't collected in books?

Voting Question: I need help choosing a book to read?

I need to read one of these books for my English class. Has anyone read any of these? Are they good? Which one would you recommend? Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald Angel of Light by Joyce Carol Oates Because it is Bitter, and Because it is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates The Chosen by Chaim Potok A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler The Conspiracy by John Hersey more

Resolved Question: I need suggestions for books to read?

Voting Question: "We are beasts and this is our consolation?"?

I just finished reading "Beasts" by Joyce Carol Oates and i loved it, but i'm having a hard time figuring out what "we are beasts and this is our consolation" means in the story. any help with examples would help! Thanks! more

Resolved Question: What is my thesis statement?

I need to write an outline for an examination of Connie in Joyce Carol Oates' story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and explore whether or not she would be a round or flat character. I'm not looking for help writing, or opinions, but part of my outline is to include a thesis statement and I'm not exactly sure how long a thesis statement is. Below is my first paragraph, or part of it, which I'm having trouble discerning what exactly my thesis statement is. Please, could someone identify it for me? In Joyce Carol Oates’ story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” the reader is introduced to a 15 year old girl named Connie, who throughout the story remains flat as opposed to round as a character trait. Throughout the story we are shown Connie’s relationship with her family, particularly her mother with which she does not get along. As the story progresses we see that Connie acts differently around her friends than she does when she is under the watchful eye of her mother. And although Connie does behave differently depending on whose company she is in, she does not change as a character. Ultimately Connie is confronted by the awkwardly twisted character Arnold Friend, and in her confrontation with him we see that although Connie may handle herself differently, she is presented with circumstances which are universal to a human being in her situation. more

Resolved Question: Topics to write about "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates?

I have to write a 6-8 page paper on a short story. This story is the only one that mildly interests me. But I have no idea what topic I could write about relating to it that would fill 6 pages. I have to come up with a research question that's due tomorrow. Any ideas? more

Resolved Question: What are some great works without a clear protagonist?

When a book lacks a protagonist, the reader must personally decide which of the "bad guys" is less bad. They often must side between an amoral vigilante trying to better the world and the person trying to stop the vigilante from doing such. It doesn't matter what type of work it is, as long as it's intriguing; "V for Vendetta" (a graphic novel by Alan Moore), "Death Note" (a manga by Tsugumi Ohba), "Paradise Lost" (an epic poem by John Milton) and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (a short story by Joyce Carol Oates) all revolve around this ambiguous concept. more

Resolved Question: Heart of Darkness question?

Author Joyce Carol Oates has asserted that “Marlow, for all his condescension [toward people of color], represents a degree of humanity not found in the other Caucasian Europeans.” Do you agree? In a paragraph or two, explain why or why not, supporting your position with specific evidence from the novella Does anyone who has read the novella have any ideas on this subject matter. more

Resolved Question: My wife loves this poem. Where does the poem provide with concrete/abstract language?

"Waiting On Elvis" Joyce Carol Oates This place up in Charlotte called Chuck's where I used to waitress and who came in one night but Elvis and some of his friends before his concert at the Arena, I was twenty-six mareid but still waiting tables and we got to joking around like you do, and he was fingering the lace edge of my slip where it showed below my hemline and I hadn't even seen it and I slapped at him a little saying, You sure are the one aren't you feeling my face burn but he was the kind of boy even meanness turned sweet in his mouth. Smiled at me and said, Yeah honey I guess I sure am. I APPRECIATE IT! more

Resolved Question: How does one go about publishing their poetry and stories?

I have enjoyed writing stories and poetry since I was 13. I enjoy writing but I also want to be a recognized writer. There is nothing wrong with being well known like Stephen King,Joyce Carol Oates,Dorothy Allison,etc. Is self publishing good? PLEASE IF YOU'RE GOING TO PUT ME DOWN FOR ENJOYING WRITING AND WANTING TO BE RECOGNIZED LIKE STEPHEN KING AND OTHER GREAT WRITERS OUT HERE, THEN PLEASE DON'T BOTHER ANSWERING.I JUST WANT TO GET MY WORK PUBLISHED.I WRITE BECAUSE I ENJOY WRITING AND I WANT TO BE A WRITER. more

Voting Question: What Does a car typically symbolize to teenagers ?

can someone help me with this question, i am reading a story called where are you going, where have you been? by joyce carol oates more

Resolved Question: "Kite Poem" by Joyce Carol Oates ... 10 Points Best Answer!!!!!!!!!?

Hi, I am currently reading "Kite Poem", by Joyce Carol Oates, and am wondering what you guys thought the poem was about, as well as any figurative language that was observed. Here is the poem if you don't know it: Kite Poem for Billy Collins Some- thing there is in the American soul that soars with kites that soar! Some- thing alive with the roar of the wind lifting the kite that soars above rooftops, tree- tops, and awestruck heads! And yet— Something there is not in the American soul to adore the kite that fails to soar. I've seen it, I've feared it, and so have you. The kite whose tail is tattered in the TV antenna. The kite that rises thrillingly at dawn then crashes vertically at your feet. in a heap more

Resolved Question: what are some symbols in Where are you going, Where have you been? by Joyce Carol Oates?

Resolved Question: What short story should I write about?

I have to write a 3 page literary essay on a classic short story. I want a short story that's easy to write about. Any stories come to mind? Oh and I'd prefer if you'd pick a story from this list: http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/ :) P.S. These are the stories we've read in class already, so it shouldn't be one of these: John Updike- A&P Flannery O’Connor- A Good Man Is Hard to Find Shirley Jackson- The Lottery W. W. Jacobs- The Monkey’s Paw Guy de Maupassant- The Necklace William Faulkner- A Rose for Emily Kate Chopin- The Story of an Hour Tim O’Brien- The Things They Carried Joyce Carol Oates- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Nathaniel Hawthorne- Young Goodman Brown more

Resolved Question: is there any good poem that fits with the story "the most dangerous game" by Richard Connel ?

if you could ... is there for "The Lottery" By shirley jackson? and if you could....is there for "Where are you going, where have you been?" by Joyce carol Oates??? also if you could........can you state the reason why the poem fits with the story??? more

Resolved Question: What is the proper way to write a conclusion paragraph?

I had a 3-4 page research essay comparing and contrasting the short story "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates with the movie "Smooth Talk" that was loosely based on the short story. I am on the conclusion paragraph now and am having issues. I restated my thesis and the main points that I discussed... but it has only come out to three sentences. My conclusion paragraph needs to be much longer than that (6-8 sentences since this is a college paper). Any tips? more

Resolved Question: creative essay title help?

I'm writing an essay comparing two short stories I read by Joyce Carol Oates.. Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi, and So Help Me God. The topic main topic is women's violence towards men, specifically by seemingly innocent young women. Any creative title ideas?? more

Resolved Question: out of the list of these books, which ones did u like the best? and why?

and plz give a small summary if u don't mind-im trying to decide which one id like:::btw just ignore the 3 lists, just think of it as one; i did the 3 lists for my own knowledge. also im considering Jamica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier and East of Eden by John Steinbeck(have u read either of these? if so did u like it/them?) list 1:: -David Copperfield-charles dickens -the brothers karamozov-fyodor dostoevsky -Fountainhead-ayn rand -Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy -War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy -Trinity-Leon Uris -Mila 18-Leon Uris List 2::: -In Cold Blood-Truman Capote -Lords of Discipline-Pat Conroy -Moll Flanders-Daniel Defoe -Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe -A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens -The Idiot-Fyodor Dostoevsky -Cold Mountain-Charles Frazier -Snow Falling on Cedars-David Gunderson -Mayor of Casterbridge-Thomas Hardy -Return of the Native-Thomas Hardy -Tess of the D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy -Catch-22-Joseph Heller -For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemingway -Portrait of a Lady-James Henry -Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert Heinlein -Dune-Frank Herbert -The World According to Garp-John Irving -How Green Was My Valley-Richard Llewellyn -One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez -Of Human Bondage-W. Sommerset Maughm -We were the Mulvaneys-Joyce Carol Oates -Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak -We the living-Ayn Rand -East of Eden-John Steinbeck -Look Homeward Angel-Thomas Wolfe List 3::: -A Death in the Family-James Agee -Foundation-Isaac Asimov -Go Tell it on the Mountain-James Baldwin -To Good Earth-Pearl Buck -Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess -Jamaica Inn-Daphne Du Maurier -Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel -Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway -Demain-Herman Hess -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -Turn of the Screw-James Henry -A Splendid Thousand Suns-Khaled Hosseini -Pigs in Heaven-Barbara Kingsolver -Razor's Edge-W.Sommerset Maughm -The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers -Sula-Toni Morrison -Tar Baby-Toni Morrison -The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath -The Chosen-Chaim Potok -Hunger of Memory-Richard Rodriguez -The Winthrop Woman-Anya Seton -One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan -Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Mark Twain -Rabbit,Run-John Updike -Slaughterhouse-Kurt Vonnegut -Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton more

Resolved Question: Joyce Carol Oates fans...what's your favorite book of hers?

I really liked "Blonde" and "The Gravedigger's Daughter" and her horror short stories are unparalleled...what would you recommend? more

Resolved Question: Where can I find essay Against Nature by Joyce Carol Oates?

I really need to read this essay for my homework assignement. I've been looking everywhere for it! Help will be greatly appreciated!!! more

Resolved Question: Is there any Fan Fiction for "Zombie" by Joyce Carol Oates?

I'm a huge fan of the novel, Zombie, and if you've ever read it, you'd know exactly why. There's something about her portrayal of the main character Q.P. that I find particularly stimulating (in other words, Hot). :) I'd very much so enjoy finding a few fan fictions based on the novel. I knew this would be difficult because most people object to the content of the novel, while others have never heard of it at all. However, I've been searching for quite some time and I'm ready to give up... But not just yet. I could use your help! Several heads are always better than one. If you happen to find any or have done a thorough search and don't believe that there is any, feel free to leave a Answer. However, I'd greatly appreciate it if you don't leave Answers like "I don't know" or "What book is that." :) Its a waste of both of our time. more

Resolved Question: Black Girl/White Girl - Joyce Carol Oates - Have you read it?

I just finished the novel and am having some problems interpreting a few themes. If you have a good grasp on the novel, please let me know! :) more

Resolved Question: Anyone have a website with the entire story of: the lady with the pet dog by joyce carol oates?

I have to write an essay and I need quotes to be in it; therefore I really really need to have the full story [and not a summary] of "the lady with the pet dog" by joyce carol oates and I am unable to find it. Can anyone help me out? Even pictures of the text would be helpful. more

Resolved Question: I need a non fiction book about murder but the author has to be on this list?

or you can just give me some books and i can look for the author i need non fiction books about murder Representative Authors List Autobiographers and Diarists Maya Angelou, James Boswell, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Charles Dana, Thomas De Quincey, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, Lillian Hellman, Helen Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, T. E. Lawrence, John Henry Newman, Samuel Pepys, Richard Rodriguez, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, Anzia Yezierska Biographers and History Writers Walter Jackson Bate, James Boswell, Thomas Carlyle, Winston Churchill, Vine Deloria, Jr., Leon Edel, Richard Ellmann, Shelby Foote, John Hope Franklin, Antonia Fraser, Edward Gibbon, Richard Holmes, Gerda Lerner, Thomas Macaulay, Samuel Eliot Morison, Francis Parkman, Arnold Rampersad, Simon Schama, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Ronald Takaki, George Trevelyan, Barbara Tuchman Critics Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, Michael Arlen, Matthew Arnold, Kenneth Clark, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Arlene Croce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William Hazlitt, bell hooks, Samuel Johnson, Pauline Kael, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, George Santayana, George Bernard Shaw, Susan Sontag, Cornel West, Oscar Wilde, Edmund Wilson Essayists and Fiction Writers Joseph Addison, James Agee, Margaret Atwood, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, G. K. Chesterton, Joan Didion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Paul Fussell, Mavis Gallant, Nadine Gordimer, Edward Hoagland, Zora Neale Hurston, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Lamb, Norman Mailer, Nancy Mairs, Mary McCarthy, N. Scott Momaday, Michel de Montaigne, V. S. Naipaul, Tillie Olsen, George Orwell, Cynthia Ozick, Ishmael Reed, Adrienne Rich, Mordecai Richler, Sharman Apt Russell, Scott Russell Sanders, Richard Selzer, Richard Steele, Shelby Steele, Henry David Thoreau, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, E. B. White, Terry Tempest Williams, Virginia Woolf Journalists Roger Angell, Maureen Dowd, Elizabeth Drew, Nora Ephron, M. F. K. Fisher, Frances Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner (Genêt), Ellen Goodman, David Halberstam, Andy Logan, John McPhee, H. L. Mencken, Jan Morris, David Remnick, Red Smith, Lincoln Steffens, Paul Theroux, Calvin Trillin, Tom Wolfe Political Writers Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, William F. Buckley, Jean de Crèvecoeur, W. E. B. DuBois, Margaret Fuller, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, George Kennan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis H. Lapham, John Locke, Niccolò Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Thomas More, Thomas Paine, Olive Schreiner, Jonathan Swift, Alexis de Tocqueville, Gore Vidal, George Will, Garry Wills, Mary Wollstonecraft Science and Nature Writers Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Jacob Bronowski, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Evelyn Fox Keller, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Margaret Mead, John Muir, David Quammen, Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, Jonathan Weiner Source: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/repository/52272_apenglocked5_30_4309.pdf more

Resolved Question: Which of these books should I read?

I have to read one of these for my English 4 AP class. I'm a 17 year old guy. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates Bel Canto - Ann Patchett Atonement - Ian McEwan All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy The Road - Cormac McCarthy more

Resolved Question: can i read "where are you going where have you been" by joyce carol oates online?

please & thank you. and i don't mean to be a book pirate... i just have to read it by tomorrow and all the bookstores are closed! [as well as the library] and i'm going to buy the book tomorrow anyways. more

Resolved Question: Which of these books should I read first?

I Am Not Esther / Fleur Beale Ordinary Ghosts / Eireann Corrigan Saving Francesca / Melina Marchetta The Lovely Bones / Alice Sebold What if you broke all the rules? / Liz Ruckdeschel Freaky Green Eyes / Joyce Carol Oates Life As We Knew It / Susan Beth Pfeffer Twenties Girl / Sophie Kinsella The betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie / Jaclyn Moriarty Feeling sorry for Celia / Jaclyn Moriarty more

Resolved Question: Whats the setting of the book "Big Mouth and Ugly Girl" by Joyce Carol Oates?

where does the book take place?ph and the point of view.....? 3rd 2nd 1st? more

Resolved Question: does anyone know where i can find the following ebooks?

i'd prefer free, but very cheap would also do. i've looked on numerous torrent sites, esnips, 4shared, etc. and no luck. A Coldness in the Blood - Fred Saberhagen Confirmation- Whitley Strieber The Hunger- Whitley Strieber Golden Apples of The Sun & Other Stories- Ray Bradbury Five Days In London, May 1940- John Lukacs Passage- Connie Willis The Vampire Papers- Michael Romkey The Vampire Princess - Michael Romkey Darker Angels- S.P. Somtow Pugilist At Rest- Thom Jones The Broken Hearts Club- Ethan Black The Final Solution- Earle Rice Eunoia- Christian Bok The Frighteners- Michael Jahn The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams- J. O'Barr & Ed Kramer Teen Angst? Naaah- Ned Vizzini Filth- Irvine Welsh The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys- Chris Fuhrman The Unswept Room- Sharon Olds The Oxford Book Of English Stories- A.S. Byatt Farther Reaches Of Human Nature- Abraham Maslow Checkpoint- Nicholson Baker The Member of The Wedding- Carson McCullers Rear View: Stories- Peter Duval The Truth About Celia- Kevin Brockmeier How The Light Gets In- Maria Hyland Black Coffee and Joni's Blue- Keith Kawasaki Crumbtown- Joe Connelly Well- Matthew McIntosh A Slipping-Down Life- Anne Tyler My Life- Anton Chekhov Mr. Spaceman- Robert Olen Butler Skels- Maggie Dubris Shame- Annie Ernaux Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe- Fannie Flagg American Gothic Tales- Joyce Carol Oates Highwaymen- Jonathan Clements Everybody Smokes In Hell- John Ridley The Mysteries of Pittsburgh- Michael Chabon Safe Harbor- Eugene Izzi Bear V. Shark- Chris Bachelder Just Pretend- J.V. Lewton A Life Less Ordinary- John Hodge You Shall Know Our Velocity- Dave Eggers How We Are Hungry- Dave Eggers The Boy- Naeem Murr Immortality- Milan Kundera Second Hand- Michael Zadoorian The Girl In The Flammable Skirt- Aimee Bender Hot Water Music- Charles Bukowski Pursuit of Happiness: Left Bank- Linny Stovall Burn Collector: Collected Stories- Al Burian The Every Boy- Dana Adam Shapiro Death On The Installment Plan- Louis Celine A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints- Dito Montiel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer The Holy Innocents (aka The Dreamers)- Gilbert Adair Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist- Rachel Cohn No One Belongs Here More Than You- Miranda July The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs- Marcus Boon Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism- Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk The Wanting Seed- Anthony Burgess Against Interpretation And Other Essays- Susan Sontag Why Art Cannot Be Taught- James Elkins Genius And Heroin - Michael Largo 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye - John David California Ritual - Mo Hayder Skin - Mo Hayderi tried books on board, but every book i looked up was well over $20, i might as well buy a hard copy! i'm looking for ebooks that are under $5. more

Resolved Question: In my preferred books, do you think Don Quixote would work for me?

I've been wanting so bad to pick up Don Quixote because it makes me curious. We had to read only a very small passage in high school and I thought it was nice, but what about your opinion on the story entirely, the whole book? I read Joyce Carol Oates, young adult, and some general fiction like Tracy Chevalier, Sue Monk Kidd, and Bernhard Schlink, and I've recently dropped reading chic-lits. I know you'd say that why not just give it a try and go for the book, right? But I don't want to go all the way to buying it and be disappointed as I've been with Ian McEwan's "On Chesil Beach" and others. So, do you think "Don Quixote" would fit my likings? Thanks! more

Resolved Question: Which one of these books is the best, in your opinion?

I'm deciding what to read next out of the books I've accumulated. The options are: Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton The Portable Dorothy Parker- Parker Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Gathering of Old Men- Ernest J. Gaines Three Cups of Tea- Mortenson and Relin We Were the Mulvaneys- Joyce Carol Oates To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf Bel Canto- Ann Patchett A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole I Am A Strange Loop- Hofstadter I know, I know. It's quite the collection. I'll read them all eventually, but I'd appreciate any recommendation of what to read next. more

Resolved Question: Is 13 years old too young to read the book Freaky Green Eyes?

It is by the author Joyce Carol OatesI am a 13 year old girl and i'm wondering if the book Freaky Green Eyes would be age appropriate for me. It seems very interesting but kind of scary. If you have read this book, what do you think? more

Resolved Question: What literary character scares the living bajeesus out of you?

For school I had to read the short story "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. The first time I read it I was disturbed by Arnold Friend, but now that I'm analyzing the text I'm freaking TERRIFIED of him. I'm seriously convinced he's like, behind me right now lmao. I knew when I read it that he was a reflection of Satan, but now I can see that the similarities are uncanny. His name (Arnold Friend = An Old Fiend), his sneaky temptation and most of all his feet. Satan is depicted as having cloven feet, and Arnold's stance certainly indicates that he may have such feet under his stuffed boots. The highly ironic thing is that I'm an atheist... I don't believe in Satan. But my GOD this man is SCARY AS HELL!OMG BIG BROTHER! I read "1984" in 8th grade and was scarred. I'm glad I read it then, though, because it really helped shape me as an individual. It just kind of developed me into a bit of a freak in my high school lol. Anyway, I'll look up Charles Schmid when I'm not all alone during nighttime =P. more

Resolved Question: Could someone please list me a couple good books from the following authors?

Pearl Buck Willa Cather William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald James Fenimore Cooper Sinclair Lewis Margaret Mitchell Edith Wharton Mark Twain Earnest Hemingway Raymond Chandler Theodore Dreiser Carson McCullers Joseph Heller Ayn Rand Robert Penn Warren Richard Wright Thomas Wolfe John Steinbeck Eudora Welty Upton Sinclair Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry James Ralph Ellison Ray Bradbury Choice ________________________________________________________ List 2 Isaac Asimov J.D. Salinger Kurt Vonnegut Saul Bellow Phillip Roth Mario Puzo John Updike Toni Morrison E.L Doctorow John Irving Barbara Kingsolver Joyce Carol Oates Ann Patchett Richard Russo Russell Banks Cormac McCarthy Anne Tyler Marilynne Robinson Jane Smiley Louise Erdrich Michael Chabon Pat Conroy John Cheever Charles Frazier Annie Proulx Jane Hamilton Amy Tan more

Resolved Question: What's your favorite short story of all time?

Mine is a tie between Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" :-) What about you guys?I LOVE "A Good Man is Hard to Find"! Sooo weird. <3 more

Resolved Question: question about TIME , PLACE, & ATMOSPHERE ?

what is atmosphere in a novel? i need to know the atmosphere in "We were the mulvaneys" by Joyce carol Oates...please by very clear or else it won't be of much help to me :/ more

Resolved Question: Which author do you prefer, Margaret Atwood or Joyce Carol Oates?

They are my two favorite authors. Most of the time I prefer Atwood's style of writing but Oates really has a gift with words as well. I usually prefer Oates' stories as they tend to be more optimistic than Atwood's, which are much darker. Oates writes about dark/disturbing topics too, but they usually wind up ending with a sense of hope, as the characters come to make peace with their past and accept themselves.Please answer only if you are familiar with both these authors and have read at least one (preferably two) books by each. more

Voting Question: Help with MLA Format?

I'm writing an opinion essay on, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates and I'm not sure how to type the works cited page in mla format. more

Resolved Question: summary for life after high school?

I need help in doing a summary for life after high school by Joyce Carol Oates - Has anyone have any ideas on how to start this summary?? more

Resolved Question: Summer Reading Books!?

So I have summer reading that I need to do. I'm not sure what books I should read so any recommendations would be nice, I have to pick two books (any two) from the following authors/playwrights: Margaret Atwood John Irving Robert Penn Warren Achebe, Chinua Hawthorne, Nathaniel Updike, John Alvarez, Julia Melville, Herman Oates, Joyce Carol Twain, Mark Angelou, Maya Kingsolver, Barbara Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Austen, Jane Morrison, Toni Woolf, Virginia Hemingway, Ernest Bronte, Charlotte or Emily Steinbeck, John Wharton, Edith Defoe, Daniel O’Connor, Flannery Tolkien, JRR Dickens, Charles Vonnegut, Kurt Salinger, JD Dostoevski, Fyodor Tan, Amy Playwrights: Williams, Tennessee Faulkner, William Tolstoy, Leo Chekhov, Anton O’Neill, Eugene Fitzgerald, F. Scott Walker, Alice Miller, Arthur Wilde, Oscar Hardy, Thomas White, EB.. Shepard, Sam Ibsen, Henrik August Wilson Lorraine Hansberry Also I have to read ONE of the following books: JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen DAVID COPPERFIELD BY Charles Dickens If it helps any to some of my favorite books are The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and To Kill A Mockingbird. I read Nineteen Minutes and really liked that also. This year in school I also read Of Mice and Men and Our Town which I thought were decent books. Thanks in advanced! more

Resolved Question: What book should i read from these authors?

this is for freshman summer reading im 14 and a guy what would i like and whats really short? thanks Isabel Allende Margaret Atwood Olive Burns Orson Scott Card Lorene Cary Carl Deuker Michael Dorris Sharon M. Draper Ken Follett Nick Hornby Khaled Hosseini Brian Jacques Barbara Kingsolver (not The Bean Trees) Gordon Korman Jon Krakauer Joyce Carol Oates Ann Patchett James McBride Walter Dean Meyers Louis Sachar Alice Sebold Esmeralda Santiago Amy Tan J.R.R. Tolkein more

Resolved Question: What book do you like the most?

"Watership Down" by Richard Adams "Catalyst" by Laurie Halse "Feed" by M.T. Anderson "Jane Erye" by Charlotte Bronte "Postcards From No Man's Land" by Aidan Chambers "Whale Talk" by Chris Crutcher "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens "A Northern Light" by Jennifer Donnelly "The House of the Scorpian" by Nancy Farmer "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd "Big Mouth & Ugly Girl" by Joyce Carol Oates "The Chosen" by Chaim Potek "I Capture the Castle" by Dodie Smith "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Hatti" by Frances Temple "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton "All Creatures Great and Small" by James Herriot "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X more

Resolved Question: For anyone who was confused about the New Moon trailer!!!!!!?

this isnt a question but im clarifying th new moon trailer for anyone who was confused about it.....please comment if it helps thanx ok so the new moon trailer was actually lots of scenes buched into one so that the main points were hit. so when bella was in the meadow with laurent and then you see her running,,,those were two seperate scenes. which makes sense because they wouldnt have bella running from laurent. and also when bella is running she is by jacobs house and is wearing a different jacket. so when jacob changes he is protecting her from paul. they may have done a voiceover when bella tells jake to run just so that the trailer would make some sense, so hope that clears things up for you remember to comment. cant wait for november 20th!!!! oh and if u would like something to watch to hold you over here are some suggestions------ My sister's keeper--in theatres June 26th True blood season 2 on HBO starts on June 14th BOOKS you can read also(not all are about vampires tho)----- Re-read the twilight saga The lovely bones by alice sebold( movie in theatres December 11) my sister's keeper by jodi picoult keeping faith by jodi picoult avalon high by meg cabot marley&me by john grogan the guardian by nicholas sparks A child called"IT" by david pelzer the blue bloods series by melissa de la cruz au pair by melissa de la cruz false memory by dean koontz odd thomas by dean koontz Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy Hatchet by gary paulsen cold fire by dean koontz Freaky Green Eyes Joyce Carol Oates The Lost Night; A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Death by Rachel Howard a bend in the road by nicholas sparks Salem falls by jodi picoult White Oleander Janet Fitch more

Resolved Question: for anyone confused about the new moon trailer!!!?

Resolved Question: Did anyone ever read the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"?

by Joyce Carol Oates. Don't you think it's just the most beautifully written story you've ever read in your life? more

Resolved Question: what is the theme of Joyce carol oates?

Resolved Question: What are some must reads- in classical literature?

I just read Moby Dick, which I found disturbing, though the writing was crackling with energy and better than any writer I have ever known. I like Anita Shreve, Jon Krakauer, Hunter Thompson, and Joyce Carol Oates. But I would like to read more classics, although not hard to read, or boring ones. I tried reading some Henry James and found it uninteresting. And I read Catcher in the Rye, which I loved, though too short. Suggest something to me that will change my life . . . . . more

Resolved Question: Which of these books should I buy?

All of these books look somewhat interesting to me, but I don't know which one(s) to buy. Can you please help me, and tell me which ones you've read, and if they were good or not? Thank you! Speak- Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls- Laurie Halse Anderon Darkest Powers Series- Kelley Armstrong The Gemma Doyle Trilogy- Libba Bray Black Rabbit Summer- Kevin Brooks Moonstone- Marilee Brothers Ordinary Ghosts- Eireann Corrigan Raven- Allison van Diepen Beastly- Alex Flinn Coraline- Neil Gaiman Looking for Alaska- John Green Paper Towns- John Green The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney- Suzanne Harper Impulse- Ellen Hopkins Zombie Blondes- Brian James Need- Carrie Jones Dreamrider- Barry Jonsberg Jellicoe Road- Melina Marchetta Revealers- Amanda Marrone Ink Exchange- Melissa Marr Wicked Lovely Series- Melissa Marr The Midnight Twins- Jacquelyn Mitchard Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale- Donna Jo Napoli Freaky Green Eyes- Joyce Carol Oates Invisible Touch- Kelly Parra Maximum Ride Series- James Patterson The Adoration of Jenna Fox- Mary E. Pearson Wings- Aprilynne Pike The Wish House- Celia Rees Witch Child Series- Celia Rees Vibes- Amy Kathleen Ryan The Forest of Hands and Teeth- Carrie Ryan Septimus Heap Series- Angie Sage Pretty Little Liars Series- Sara Shepard Everlost- Neal Shusterman Unwind- Neal Shusterman Poison Study- Maria V. Snyder Storm Glass- Maria V. Snyder Blue is for Nightmares- Laurie Faria Stolarz Touch Series- Laurie Faria Stolarz Sight- Adrienne Maria Vrettos The Rules of Survival- Nancy Werlin Midnighters Series- Scott Westerfeld Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic- Suzanne Weyn The Fetch- Laura Whitcomb Leftovers- Laura Wiess The Chosen One- Carol Lynch Williams Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac- Gabrielle Zevin more

Resolved Question: Can someone make this a clear thesis?

Although many people think Arnold Friend is an allusion to the devil, Joyce Carol Oates was able to illicit fear in the readers by pointing out similarities between Arnold Friend and notorious serial killer Charles Schmid. I know it doesnt make sense but it someone can tell make it provide a clear argument and fit so it makes sense, that would be great!!! more