Delivering Moral Messages in Where Are You Going, Where...

Delivering Moral Messages in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been and A Good Man is Hard to Find School shootings, bombings, rape, and murder are words that are commonly seen in newspaper headlines and heard on the morning news. To most people these acts seem like senseless violence. However, writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Flannery O’Connor use these same violent images to deliver a powerful moral message. Their stories â€Å"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?† and â€Å"A Good Man is Hard to Find† are very comparable in the lessons that they teach. Joyce Carol Oates’s â€Å"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been† begins with the introduction of it’s main character, Connie, a fifteen year- old girl. Oates makes Connie’s vanity†¦show more content†¦Joyce Chopra and Tom Cole adapted the film. A great deal of emotion was focused on the relationship between Connie and her mother (Johnson 150). The original story had little to do with that relationship. Chopra found it necessary to alter want she called the story’s â€Å"unfilmable† conclusion (Wesley 255-62). â€Å"My Sweet little blue-eyed girl, â€Å" he said in a half- sung sigh that had nothing to do with [Connie’s] brown eyes but was taken up just the by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him- so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it. Instead, a fluffier fairytale ending is added. Connie is saved from her fated murder and returned to her family. Despite the alterations Joyce Carol Oates commented that she thought, â€Å"the film was extremely well done†. Flannery O’Connor also begins her story â€Å"A Good Man is Hard to Find† with the introduction of Grandma, the main character. The grandmother appears to represent godliness and Christianity. She is said in the story to have â€Å"lacked comprehension, but†¦ had a good heart†. 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