Where are you going, Where have you been?

The story “Where are you going, Where have you been?” Is a about a young girl named Connie. Connie was a beautiful girl, and the she had a sister named June, mom, and dad. Later on in the story, she goes to the mall with her friends and they decide to leave and go to a restaurant across the street where the high schoolers hang out. Than she meets a guy named Arnold. At frist she began to flirt with him a little bit, but than he said say things that were a little over the top in a scary sort of way. Such as, I know so much about you Connie. Than she went home, and decide not to go to her parents to a BBQ. Much to her surprise while she was home alone Arnold shows up to her house in a stockerish way and yells for her to let her in and she tells him to go away or she’d call the cops. Arnold just threatened to hurt her family. And some how got in her house ands he picked up the phone and he stabs her.

This is about the world in the eyes of a 15 year old. Most teenagers do not get that nothing bad is going to happen until it does. Connie made the decision to talk to Arnold because she thought she would be ok, even though she was talking to a stranger. Later on she starts to see him as a treat and panics. And he’s going to do anything he can to get to her.

The Fat Girl

Summary

This story is about a girl who has been over weight for a good majority of her life, even when she was a little girl her mom would pressure her to loose weight and eat healthier. Eating was a comforting place for the girl to go. However it was more a of secret that she kept from everyone just how bad her eating habits were. Even through high schools, she didn’t have many friends. The girl had two friends that were close, but they did not have a clue about this eating problem. The girl than grow up into a woman and lost about 70 pounds and graduated. Subsequently the woman meant a man who became her husband. The woman got pregnant and thought it would be ok to eat like she did before but even after she had her baby she kept eating. Her husband never mention anything about her wait be she could definitely tell he was distancing himself from here. However, she did not seem to care, one morning she woke up, and much to her surprise he was still there.

Reflection
I think this story is about a girl’s lifelong addiction, and it was eating. The food was her comforting place she could go to just escape. Who knows why she picks food over other things to numb her plain. I just think that she is just depressed and wants to be loved as herself.