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A 5 page discussion of our societal tendency to place the blame on a woman when she becomes the victim of a sex crime. This paper pulls from Joyce Carol Oates" "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (a short story fictionalizing the real-life
murders of Charles Schmid in the 1960s) and the more contemporary considerations of blame found in Ellen Goodman's "When a Woman Says No" and Susan
Jacoby's "Common Decency". No additional sources are listed.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPlitOa3.rtf
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You Going, Where Have You Been?" (a short story fictionalizing the real-life murders of Charles Schmid in the 1960s) presents the opportunity for many questions regarding who should take responsibility
for the brutal actions the protagonist (Arnold Friend) inflicted on his victim, a fifteen year old named Connie. Arnold showed up with a friend in Connies driveway the day
after she had casually glanced at him while on a date with another boy. Admittedly, Arnold was strange yet at the same time mysteriously attractive to Connie. He assumed
that she would go with him willingly and, in some ways, his assumption did indeed pan out. Connie, although inwardly terrified by Arnold and his friend, opened her screen
door and walked away from her home to get in Arnolds car and drive away. Connie pushed:
"her hand against the screen" and voluntarily walked into the world of Arnold Friend, "a land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except
to know that she was going to it" (148). Understandably, such an action might be
interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold never actually lifted a finger against Connie while she was inside her home, was forced.
Furthermore, despite our tendency to believe otherwise, Connies own actions are not relevant to those of Arnold. Even if she somehow encouraged Arnold by one or more of
her actions or inactions, she was not responsible for his violent acts. The thesis must, therefore, be presented that blame for what was to happen afterward lies with no
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