Freestyle (Entry 5)

I read the story in our text book Where you are going, Where have you been? by Joyce carol Oates. It was a very interestingly scaring story. The start of it has a very relaxing and happy feeling however, as you read through the pages it was very effective in rising my heart beat as the plot thickened. One thing I noticed as I read was that the story was wrote in past tense "Her name was Connie." (Oates 378)starting off using the word "was" implied that Connie "is" no longer living. What freaked me out the most though was the guy in this story was truly twisted. Everything about him made me think "stranger danger". The cocky way he talked as if he knew how everything would play out irked me. Reflecting on this story as a whole I was very disturbed at how easily something like this can/does happen. I can easily put my self in her shoes at that age and I see the story ending the same way, very alarming.