Essays on Connie

Literature has become a big part of every tradition and culture in the world. Each country and nation has their own styles and perspectives of how they should portray and interpret literature. However, regardless of where literature is made and under what perspective it was conceptualized, these all follow certain rules and structures that makes them distinguishable literature works. The structure of a literature is also known as its “plot”. The plot functions as the backbone of the literature, which establishes its foundation. It helps tie together all the elements of the story, in order to make it unified ...

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In “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning we meet the narrator who is a Duke. The duke is meeting an emissary in order to discuss marrying the daughter of a very important man. As he is giving the emissary a tour of his home he stops to admire the portrait of his dead wife. The Duke begins to speak of his dead wife with affection. This quickly turns into bitterness when he goes on a rant about the fact she engaged in behaviors that he found distasteful. As he goes on he reveals that he “gave commands; / Then ...

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Joyce Carol Oates’ story. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been is dedicated to Bob Dylan and his song “It’s all over now baby blue” and is said to be inspired by the three murders committed by Charles Schmud in Tucson, Arizona, which were featured in an article by Don Moser in Life magazine on March 4, 1966. The title of the story itself is intriguing, hinting at things to come; at the dilemma that Connie is in when Arnold Friend wants to take her away from her familiar surroundings to an unknown place and future, "The ...

The society has changed and crime is increased and good behavior reduced among the youths which is not good for civilization. The unity in the society is not anymore which caused writers such as O’Conner and Oates to write on the behavior of the current society. It is with no doubt that a good man is hard to find in the present society due to loss of trust and many young people having adopted bad lifestyles. This means that the arguments written by O’Connor and Oates are very good in giving the picture of what the society ...

The movie shows the arrival of Laura Dern, who is superb actress. Under the direction of Joyce Chopra Ms. Laura showed that she could undertake the role of Connie, who is a rebellious teenager, who faces the cruelty of life in extremely challenging ways. The movie is closely linked to the short story “where have you been and where are you going” by Joyce Carol. Like Calif house the Wyats live in, Connie is not well kept, almost empty as well as isolated with the weedy landscape as surroundings. She takes massive time in washing her hair as well ...

Amplified financial projections with the intention to look good in the books does more harm than good both in the eyes of stakeholders and the board members. Whenever there is s dramatic increase in the financial projections, usually, it is very hard to maintain good repute in the long term. Same is observed in the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). Bob and Connie are responsible for the growth of the organization, and they are directly responsible for monthly and yearly financial expansion. However, unfortunately, they tend to amplify the financial performance in the newsletter and later when the facial year ...

The Slap is a film that is based on the novel by Christos Tsiolkas. The story is presented from the vantage point of eight characters by highlighting their reactions after an incident in which a man called Harry reprimands his friend’s three year old son Hugo by slapping him in a social event. The slap was motivated by the fact that the child was misbehaving and the parents did not intervene to stop him. Harry is an adulterous businessman and the cousin of the person hosting the barbecue. His son Rocco, who is slightly older than Hugo, is ...

Two stories “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor and “Where are You Going? Where Have you Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates have the same style of the storytelling. They both tell us tragic stories that could easily happen in real life. In both of the stories women are the main characters. However, both of the stories have their similarities and differences. One of the common themes for A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor and “Where are You Going? Where Have you Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates is elusiveness of ...

` His sudden arrival stirred the village. The village nurse admitted that they had not encountered such even in their big books. The prophets said it was the sign of the end of the world. Even the witch doctors, the dying breed, made their own input. They called it the invasion of the dead. Tongoona tried to be honest with the crowd. Promising them that he meant well. He was just on one of the few missions that inhabitants of his galaxy were going to embark on in the future. An inhabitant of one of the black holes, surely no ...

Elements of a Book Review

Book reviews is a very essential element of a sound criticism, which pushes literature to further development. The practice demonstrates that writing a good book is rarely done from the first attempt. Instead, the writers have to complete many editions, revise it continually and introduce modifications, so that their writing becomes heartily perceived even by the inveterate critics from the community. Thus, the main purpose of a book review is to interact with the writer, and to inform him or her whether the work was a) relevant to the today’s interests of the community and b) whether the ...