Carly Groce Professor Pam Golden Comp. & Rhetoric 14 September 2014 Summary The mind can play tricks on us in times of fear, times when you’re afraid to walk to your car alone in the dark. You think you begin to hear things, but you are fine once you actually reach your car and you feel a sense of relief because your fear wasn’t real. Sadly, not in the case of a fifteen year old girl named Connie, her fears soon became disturbingly real in the story “Where are you going, where have you been”. In her article, “Where are you going, where have you been” (Oats 1966) describes how a young girl named Connie is so infatuated with her looks that it becomes a risk to her life when she goes out one night with friends and is spotted by a …show more content…
It was the man in the gold convertible that she had seen that night at the mall while hanging out with Eddie. He got out of his car and introduced himself and soon began to scare Connie with the things he already knew about her and the location of her family, as the conversation went on she became more and more on edge as he made the conversation gradually more sexual. She threatened to call the cops, but couldn’t for the sake of her families lives. The man had threatened to hurt her family and come into her house if she attempted to call the authorities. The conversation persisted, he wanted her to come with him and she refused. Finally she had heard enough and ran to the phone to call for help which is when the man entered. “She cried out, she cried out for her mother, she felt her breath jerking back and forth in her lungs as if it were something Arnold Friend was stabbing her with again and again with no tenderness.” This quote explains the fear Connie is experiencing, the “stabbing” and “no tenderness” and continued struggle suggests that she is being brutally raped by Arnold Friend. After being raped in her own house she is weak and helpless and was forced to get into Arnold Friends car, not knowing if she would ever be able to return to her