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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
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Where crap you been, where are you going to are the words of The Blue coffee shop form by Chris Rea.
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is a much anthologized short bill written by Joyce Carol Oates. The flooring first appeared in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch Magazine. It was invigorate by three Tucson, Arizona murders committed by Charles Schmid, which were profiled in Life magazine in an article written by Don Moser on March 4, 1966. Oates said that she dedicated the story to Bob Dylan because she had been inspired to write it after listening to his song Its All Over Now, Baby Blue.[citation needed]
The story was loosely competent into the 1985 film Smooth Talk, starring Laura Dern and Treat Williams.
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The main example of Oatess story is Connie, a beautiful but somewhat imperative 15-year-old girl who is at odds with her mother, herself once a beauty, and with her dutiful, sozzled, and homely older sister. Without her parents knowledge, she spends most of her evenings picking up boys at a Big Boy restaurant, and one evening captures the direction of a menacing stranger in a halcyon jalopy covered with cryptic writing.



While her parents are outside(a) at her aunts barbecue, two men pull up in front of her house and call Connie out. She recognizes the driver, Arnold Friend, as the man from the have a go at it restaurant, but is initially somewhat charmed by the smooth-talking, charismatic stranger in his fashionable tight jeans and white T-shirt. He tells Connie he is her age and has come to take for a wax in their car with his sidekick Ellie; Connie slowly realizes that he is real much older, and grows afraid. As Connie refuses to go with him, he becomes more forceful and threatening, saying that he will harm her family (while at the said(prenominal) time appealing to Connies vanity, saying that she is too good for them), until Connie is...If you expect to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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