Friday, March 5, 2010

4.Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?(1966) 'Hey Arnold:)

Characters:
Connie(15): beautiful, spoiled, irresponsible, narcist, daydreamer, rebellious, a typical teenager, at odds with her mother. She is having different moods at home and outside her house.
June(24):Connie's sister. She is plain, easygoing, chunky and a role model of the family. She is still living with her family and she is a secretary in Connie's school.
Father: he has no time to concern with his family(inconsiderate), doesn't talk much)unlike the mother:))
Mother: complaining about Connie& praising June. She sees Connie as a big problem:). Also, we may say that she envies Connie's beauty. Because, before the lines on her face she was also as beautiful as her.
Arnold Friend: an old "fiend". His name is a symbol of the devil in the story.(Fiend means very evil person or devil). He looks cool, he is self-confident, a bit saucy(his conversation with Connie is a proof for this), despotic, charming, smart and he knows what he wants. Addition to that, he is a lier because, he lies about his age to insist Connie. He is an adult!

-Benjamin & Connie-
As an adult Arnold Fiend orders and tries to give a way to Connie. He pressures her to come with him. (He expects Connie to accept what he asks)
Also Benjamin is opressed by his parents. For example, his father enforces Benjamin to go out with Elian.(So, here again we can see an adult who orders to a teenager)

Maturity&Values
Connie is an irresponsible and spoiled girl. But, at the end of the story we can see that she decides to go with Arnold in order to protect her family.(this is a mature and self-sacrificing decision) I think, also she is seduced by Arnold and that's she wants to go sneakingly though the little girl matures and she understands the value of her mother.(she laments by remembering her mother and her bed)

2 comments:

  1. I like the way you always try out new and creative formats for your blog posts :) I'm sure this will make it really easy for you to review the texts at the end of the semester.

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  2. Thank you for your comment Sonja:)(also for encouraging me:))

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