There are things that happen when we are growing up that change us when we are grown. There are things that change us forever. Every human being is different, and there is a reason why . All of us had a childhood and all kinds of experiences some good, some bad, some full of joy but also others very painful. Eventually we grow childhood and mature depending of what we have gone through. The way we are able to handle situations is very important because one thing leads to another.
We can’t rely on intuition, we need to have logic in what our choices are. We can’t just punch someone in the face just because we don’t like a certain individual, or go up to someone and kiss him/her just because we feel some sort of attraction. There needs to be some kind of logic to everything we do. We need to stop for a second and think about the consequences of our actions; although at times when one is at the teenage stage of life, one can be very naive and might do things unconsciously, not thinking that some kind of danger might be around.
The short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates talks about a 15 year old girl, Connie. The story tells us about Connie who is a young teenage girl who is always getting compared by her family to her older sister June, the perfect one. Her mother said to her “Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed-what the hell stinks? Hair spray?
You don’t see your sister using that junk” (Oates 361)Connie lives with her parents and her older sister; although both her parents live with her it seems like her dad is invisible, “Their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home he wanted supper and after supper he went to bed. He didn’t bother talking much to them”(Oates 362) Connie had a small group of friends who she hangs out with a few times a week. The girls would get dropped of at a mall and they would get picked up by 11pm at night. Connie was a two faced person.
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Oates writes “Everything about her had two sides, one for home, and one for anywhere that wasn’t home: her walk, which could be child like, or bobbling, or languid enough to make anyone think she was hearing music in her head; her mouth, which was pale and smirking most of the time, but bright and pink on those evenings out, her laugh, which was cynical and drawing at home- but high-pitched and nervous everywhere else, like the jingling of the charm on her bracelets”(Oates 364) Connie and her friends sometimes would go to a trashy “fly-infested” drive-in restaurant where older kids would hang out,rather than the mall.
One night Connie met a boy named Eddie who invited her to have something to eat, so they did. After they were done eating, Connie and Eddie were walking and she was walking out into the parking lot she looked around and the crowd. Oates tells us “Connie couldn’t help but let her eyes wander over the windshields and the faces all around her, her face gleaming with joy that had nothing to do with Eddie or even this place; it might have been the music” (Oates 363) As she was walking a guy caught her attention; he was in a convertible that was painted gold: “He stared at her and then his lips widened to a grin, Connie slit her eyes at him and turned away, but she couldn’t help glancing back, and there he was still watching her” (Oates 363)The guy then waved his finger in the air and laughed and said “Gonna get you, baby” (Oates 364) Connie turned away, but Eddie didn’t hear anything.
On Sunday morning Connie’s family was going to a family barbecue. Connie got up at eleven but she didn’t want to go with them so she stayed home all alone. While she was laying out in the back yard, she heard a noise. It was a car pulling intoher driveway. She walked into the house and she looked out the window and realized it was not her family. She knew that she had see the car somewhere, and realized it was the car that the boy was in from the night before. It was not Eddie, it was the guy who yelled across to her while she was with Eddie.
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The guy knocked on the door and yelled out “I ain’t late, am I? ” She said back “Who the hell do you think you are? ” (Oates 366) They started going back and forth for a while to one another. He was telling her that he thought she was cute, and she said back to him, that she didn’t know who he was. He told her that his name was Arnold Friend, and he acted like she should know him. They kept going at each other, Arnold from the driveway and her from the house (behind the door).
Arnold seemed to know everything about her family. He knew that they were out for the day and that they wouldn’t be back. He told her that he thought that she was cute and that she should come for a ride in the car.
She told him flat out that she didn’t want to, but he told her that if she hadn’t done so that he was going to hurt her family. (Oates 367) He told her too that if she picked up the phone and called the police that he was going to come into the house, but otherwise he wouldn’t come in. Connie was terrified she didn’t know what to do so she put the phone down “Cmon honey”. She put her hand to the door, and walked towards Arnold Friend. He said to her “My sweet little blue eyed girl. ”(Connie had brown eyes)…Oates tells in the end “Connie had never seen so much land before and did not recognize it except to know that she was going to it. ” (Oates 377) Arnold friend took Connie away……
While they were in the car Connie was sooo scared that she didn’t know what to do. Everything was coming back to her. The fact that she was always being compared to her sister and she thought to herself “maybe he will treat me better, but then again what about my whole life that I will be leaving behind. No i can’t let him take me away! Let me go! ” she said to him, “ I want to go home” . “Shut up you stupid little girl, you wanted to act like a grown up, didnt you! ” He answered, “No please please let me go” Connie said. The car stopped and Arnold got off grabbing Connie by the hair, and throwing her against the floor, he took a big sharpened knife.
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“I told you i was gonna get you” Arnold Friend said with a malevolent tone of voice. You could see the terror in Connie’s eyes, she couldn’t believe that this was happening, she didn’t know why… “Why me” she thought inside her. Arnold grabbed the knife and stabbed Connie on her chest. “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ” Connie screamed out. “Wake up honey, wake up” Connie’s mother said Connie opened her eyes crying and hugged her mother, she realized it was all a dream. Connie’s family had come back because they forgot something. “Honey are you okay? Connie’s mother asked “Can I still go to the barbeque” Connie asked “Of course” Her mom replied So the whole family went to the barbeque; once they all arrived to the barbeque……..
Connie’s father said, “I want to introduce you to a friend” Then he said, “This is Arnold Friend” “Nooooooooooooooo” Connie yelled out terrified. The way I can relate to this story is by the fact that Connie would lie to her parents and say that she would go to the shopping center and instead she would go to the restaurant where the older kids hanged out. When i was younger sometimes i would lie to my mother to the places i would hang out, i mean i never did anything bad, but i knew for a fact that she wouldn’t let me go to certain places because of my age. But other than that Connie and I are very different because i never acted a certain way at home and a different way outside the house, i was always the same person never had a double personality like Connie did.
