1. The plot of the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?  written by Joyce Carol Oates is about Connie, fifteen year-old girl, who was possessed with the way she looks. Her mother was not happy about Connie's possession, and always set her older sister June as an example of a good girl, insisting that Connie should be like June "You don't see your sister using that junk  (Oates 233). It was Sunday when Arnold Friend came to Connie's house while her family was on a barbecue. He came with his creepy friend, Ellie, and was acting like he knew her very well, and insists her to go with them for a ride "we ain't leaving until you come with us  (Oates 239). 2. Where are you going, where have you been starts with " Her name was Connie  (Oates 233) which signals that the story is going to be told in third-person narrator. Most of the story told from Connie's point of view. Narrator who present thing as Connie sees allows reader to identify that during her conversation with Arnold Friend, she is transformed from flirt "...You're my date. I'm your lover, honey,  (Oates 240) to victim "Soon as you touch the phone I...can come inside. You won't want that  (Oates 241). Arnold Friend is presented the way he appears to Connie which makes him less human and more ominous. Using a third-person narrative voice, instead of using Connie's words, gives Oats to use descriptive language that Connie possible would not be able to use. Because of narrative's language, majority of mood, imaginary and symbolist presented in the story. 3. The literal use of symbol "black  in a story is basically a main color of Arnold Friend. His hair " ...he had shaggy, shabby black hair that looked crazy...  (Oates 236) and lashes are black; also, his jeans are black as well as a color of his name on a car "ARNOLD FRIEND was written in tarlike black letters on a side... (Oates 236). Everything that caught Connie's attention in Arnold represent black