{"id":11647,"date":"2023-04-28T22:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T02:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/?p=11647"},"modified":"2023-04-28T22:07:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T02:07:50","slug":"toribio-mendez-discussion-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/2023\/04\/28\/toribio-mendez-discussion-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Toribio Mendez Discussion 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many readers have come up with their own interpretation of the story \u201cWhere Are You Going? Where have you been?\u201d describing it as a \u201cinverted fairy tale\u201d or even \u201ca tale of initiation into the evils of depraved American culture. To me it is simply a thriller\/ horror about a young girl who is confronted by her stalker and lured into his trap and eventually assaulted in many ways. The Story does not go further than when Connie gives in to Arnold but the subtle threats the Arnorld throws out there in his encounter with Connie makes his intentions seem more than sinister. Even going back to when Connie spots the \u201cboy\u201d at the drive-in restaurant and he tells her \u201cgonna get you baby\u201d from a distance made me unsettled and nervous for what that may mean. In Korbs&#8217; essay about the story, the writer explains that people may interpret Arnold as the devil with the way he had \u201cSupernatural\u201d awareness on Connie and her families whereabouts. For me, this story was a lot more realistic, the almost omniscient awareness Arnold seemed to have was just his obsessive nature and that he\u2019s been watching Connie way before she saw him at the restaurant. He knew where her family was and what they were doing by simply staking out her house and following her family as they pulled off while Connie enjoyed her alone time until Arnold came back. This terrifying story is something that can very much happen in reality and to me is far from a fairy tale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many readers have come up with their own interpretation of the story \u201cWhere Are You Going? Where have you been?\u201d describing it as a \u201cinverted fairy tale\u201d or even \u201ca tale of initiation into the evils of depraved American culture. To me it is simply a thriller\/ horror about a young girl who is confronted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-14-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11648,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions\/11648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-celeste-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}