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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
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Connie and Arnold
The main character, Connie, was abducted by a stranger who claimed to know her, Arnold Friend.
Parental Neglect
"Her mother, who noticed everything and knew everything"
Many child abductions are a result of lack of parental involvement in the lives of their children.
“their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home he wanted supper…and after supper he went to bed”
“Molesters may be excusing their behavior by saying, in effect, that less sexually desirable women force them to turn to children.”
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
A Case Study on Child Abduction
Most child abductions are as a result of familial or custodial dispute; the next most common abductions are done by strangers. Often times stranger abductions result in molestation, murder, or both.
Teenage females are most at risk...
Naivety
Stanley Rene
This attribute changes upon Arnold Friend entering the story, he sees the “woman” she wishes to be viewed as, however takes advantage of her adolescence which she denounces and then strips her of any sense of childhood that might have remained.
“For almost the entire duration of her story, Connie is locked in the present, a present that has no sense of the past, a present that is wholly uninformed”
Works Cited
Abductors take advantage of adolescence, their sense of purity often drives molesters in.
Child molesters often do not see the wrongfulness in their acts, Friend targeted Connie because though she was nearing a womanly age, she had not yet reached it therefore making it seem less taboo. Child molesters have a mental illness, this is not the fault of the abducted.
1. Horley, James, and Quinsey Vernon L. “Assessing the Cognitions of Child Molesters: Use of the Semantic Differential with Incarcerated Offenders.” The Journal of Sex Research 31.3 (1994) 171-78. Web.
2. Theriot, Michele, D. The Eternal Present in Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ n.p.: Gale, Cengage Learning, n.d. Literature Resource Center. Web.