Personal Narrative: Where Is Here By Joyce Carol Oates

One summer day my friend, family, and I traveled to Carowinds.sAs we embarked on our vacation, we soon discovered that the trip was extremely lengthy. Upon arrival at the park, we heard the shouting of the kids as they were enjoying the rides.cx After entering the park we darted towards the largest roller coaster there. The first problem we encountered was our fear of riding roller coasters.cdWe began to feel the thrill as we went down the first ramp and no longer had fear. The best part about the whole day was experiencing the thrill as you enjoyed the ride. Finally, we ended the day by eating out and traveling home.

When I was 11 years old, I went to Knott’s Berry Farm with my big sister and Two brothers. We were waiting in line to get in the amusement park, and then we finally got in and went straight to silver bullet. I was scared to get on it because I never been on a roller coaster before and to me the ride seemed pretty intense. So we finally got on and I was scared and thrilled at the same time.

Personal Narrative by Kyle The reason i was named Kyle Hutton because Hutton is a Irish name. I was named Kyle because Kyle is also a Irish name. My family is somewhat Irish on both sides of the Family. That is why my name was Kyle.

What a Day Once upon a time I was going to Cedar point. It was going to be awesome! I mean I’m with my parents and my older siblings going to a huge theme park. Not! Sorry guys this isn’t a fairy tale.

It’s never been a secret that you love amusement parks. You love thrills, to go fast, for wind to run its fingers through your hair and push your head back. You love to feel like you’re flying, like you’re a free bird able to soar across the sky. Only roller coasters allow you to feel this sense of euphoria that you crave.

Oates's “ Where Is Here, “ Arthur Tress’ “Dream Collector” and Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” uses transformation of an ordinary person and an ordinary setting to show us how easily circumstances can change. because it causes readers to question their own fear. One example is

Oates shows that in her story, “Where is Here,” because the house changes to old and broken and the family follows to that as well. Cotazar shows that in “House Taken Over” because he uses it with the characters and mood of the story from all ordinary to odd and mysterious. Poe shows transformation in “The Fall of the House of Usher” because it changes the mood and how the characters act suddenly from odd to horrified. This is why transformation causes fear to the reader as they read a story, because of the alterations from one tone to

" This phrase allows us to feel the horror directly and establishes the mood for the rest of the story.

The story “Where is Here” by Joyce Oates is about a married couple who are being visited by a mysterious man, who they have never seen before. The visitor is walking through their house, seemingly reliving childhood memories. When the stranger says, “I mean, I was a child in this house” this proves that the stranger had lived in the house as a child and had memories of his childhood, but there was no telling how long ago that was. The wife is worried about who the young man is and what his intentions are, she even says “The garage! What does he want in there!”

“Okay,” she began. “Me, you, uncle D.J., auntie Tiffany, and their two kids are going to Six Flags!” I was so happy, I felt like a dog who just got a new, big bone for Christmas. But then grief struck me: Six Flags has roller coasters, and I’m afraid of those things. But instead of telling this to

Transformations play a huge role in scaring people. Transformations happen all the time to make a movie scary. People get scared of the change so the author inserts transformations throughout the movie or book to keep it interesting or scary. There were transformations that happened in the story, “ The Fall of the House of Usher.” A quote from the story it says, “I heard them- many, many days

For the longest time had I been asking to go here, the day has finally came. I was nine then, my first time at Cedar Point (other then when I was like two or three but I don’t count that) and for most of the car ride I was all smiles. My family would look out and see who could be the first one to find the roller coasters. I thought it took forever to get through the car lines-being an anxious and impatient girl-

The time had come for our annual band trip. The band was on its way to encounter many fun attractions. The event I was most ecstatic for was Six Flags! The day we visited Six Flags I walked around with five of my friends and my girlfriend. We spent the whole day riding the park’s fantastic rides.

Monologue of an Outsider (Running on stage) I’m finally home. (Taking off backpack) I don’t want to ever go back to school again. I wish I never moved to Canada.

Arnold Friend is a character in Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”. Throughout the scenes that involve Arnold, it can be seen that Oates used sexual predation as a main point in the story. Oates’s inspiration for Arnold Friend was Bob Dylan’s song “It’s all over Now Baby Blue,” and in the story, there are references to the song describing Connie as Arnold’s “sweet little blue-eyed girl” (Oates 9). Another inspiration for Arnold was an real-life psychopathic serial killer Oates read about in a newspaper who would “seduce young girls into his car after school; he would later molest and kill them” (Mary); he was the perfect muse for Arnold because both had a violently promiscuous persona.