This paper uses additional information about an author and/or work we have studied to
write a deeper, fuller analysis of that story. (10-paragraph analytical research paper about the author’s point of view and your POV-based
1. Joyce Carol Oates and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”: This
paper will dive deeper into Joyce Carol Oates and her iconic story. the story was inspired by real-life events and then inspired by a movie. You might
want to consider how Oates makes news art; how a story transforms itself into a movie;
or even how the author inspires herself. You might even want to consider how Oates’s
stories are an interpretation of America and the American Dream. As one critic noted:
“Oates concerns herself with the formulation of the American Dream and how it has changed and
even soured through the decades of American prosperity and preeminence. Her characters are
often prototypes of the nation, and their growth from naïveté to wisdom and pain reflect aspects
of the national destiny that she sees in the evolving society around her. In her short stories, the
naïveté is often the innocence of youth; many stories focus on adolescent girls becoming aware
of the potential of their sexuality and the dangers of the adult world. Like the United States,
however, such characters retain an unbounded youthful enthusiasm, an arrogant challenge to the
future and the outside world.”
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