Abstract: In the story, Connie is a girl who always wonders how she looks. Her mother does not like her for this. Connie always goes to the mall with her friends. She would then go to the the drive-in restaurant across the highway. She would meet boys there too. One day, her parent and her sister went to a barbecue and she stayed at home. She was sitting in her room, and she heard a car come up. When she went to see who it was, she recognized the car. She had seen it before at the drive-in restaurant. There were two men inside it. One had shaggy black hair, and the other had side burns. The man with the shaggy black hair, Arnold Friend, wanted Connie to go on a ride with him. Connie doesn't want to go on a ride with him though. She can tell that he looks like he's in his thirty's, and his friend looks like he is about forty. Arnold Friend also knows a lot about Connie. He knows what she was doing the night before, and he knows her friends' and family's names. He also keeps telling her he is her friend and calls her 'my Connie'. Connie keeps telling him how she they better leave, but they won't. She then tells her she will call the police. His friend says he will turn the phone off, and Arnold says that if she calls the police, he will come inside and get her. He also tells her that he will pretty much rape her. She becomes frightened and finally tries to call the police. When she does, it is the dial tone. She then starts screaming. She then lost all of her emotion and gave up. Arnold then tells her how they will go to a nice place. She then finally gives up and goes with Arnold.
Response:Tshis story has a lot of deception in it. First, Connie does not just deceive her friend and family, but also herself. She has two sides. She has the side for home and the side for her friends. At home she is not really herself because she is afraid of being criticized by her mother. Since she has two different sides, she does not know who she really is. Arnold Friend also tries to deceive Connie. He tries to disguise himself as a younger person when he is really old. He also tries to deceive Connie and say he just wants to go on a ride with her, but he really has different ideas. He tries to make Connie feel safe saying he knows her, but he really doesn't and just wants to harm her. He also tries to use her sort of disgust she has for her family. He tells her she is better than them in order to make her try to make her like him. Arnold is tempting Connie. He seems like he really wants to make her go to the 'evil' side. She is sort of deciding between still wanting to be innocent and a child or become an adult. Connie doesn't really know what to do, and she is apprehensive to go with Arnold. When she finally leaves the house, she is going into her adulthood. She knows she will no longer be innocent and this makes her sad even though before in her life she was always trying to do adult things. She is also letting Arnold win though and letting him get what he wants. In the story, Arnold the man is the powerful one while Connie is the weak one giving into his desires and not standing up for herself. She lets herself be taken advantage of by Arnold. Arnold is depicted being more powerful than Connie because he knows what to do and what to say in order for him to get what he wants and make Connie give up her fight against him.
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