The story “ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, by Joyce Oates, is compared to the story “ Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault. Both are about young girls who are attacked by wolves or sexual predators. The main idea in “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault. It is about a girl just coming into her teens or year or two after she goes to her grandmothers house because she is sick and ill. Her mother wants to send her cake and this little pot of butter. So she sends her beautiful thirteen to fifteen year old daughter out threw the forest to her grandmothers house. On the way she is distracted by a wolf, or a sexual predator. Who tries to steer her off course and talks to her to get information from her like where she is going and who is there, and why she is going there. Also who knew she was their. The wolf breaks into the grandmothers house and eats her grandmother. Then wears her out and jumps in her bed waiting on Little Red . When she gets there, she knows something is wrong but keeps going for some reason. In the end she gets gobbled up. The story here is that younger girls are starting to experiment to early and are getting themselves in trouble or are not paying close attention to their sorrundings.
In “ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, by Joyce Oates, the story is about a fifteen year old who is murdered by a wolf. He stalks her and finds out where she lives from his friends within the community. He also plays a role as someone who is a sexual predator, who behind a mask of make-up is a crazy messed up person. He comes to the girls house while her parents were across town at her aunt’s house at a barbeque. He convinces the girl to not call the cops and to not scream. He evantuanly gets her to walk outside and go into his car and leave forever with him. Also to die and as she says be apart of the land. So in a way she gets her freedom.
The things that are similar in these two stories are that younger girls need to be...