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A 4 page overview of the short story by Joyce Carol Oates, a story inspired by the real-life murderer
Charles Schmid, the murderer that had acquired the name of "The Pied Piper of Tucson" because of his inexplicable ability to convince young girls
to do whatever it was that he wanted. The author of this paper raises questions regarding the concept of responsibility and how it plays out in
our modern consciousness. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPlitOat.rtf
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by real life events. Such is the case with Joyce Carol Oates short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?." In it Oates depicts the fictional
character Arnold Friend. Arnold murders several young girls and his story was inspired by the real-life murderer Charles Schmid, the murderer that had acquired the name of "The Pied
Piper of Tucson" because of his inexplicable ability to convince young girls to do whatever it was that he wanted. Oates first encountered Schmid in a March 4, 1966
"Life" magazine article, an article that brought the Tucson Arizona murders that had occurred the previous year to national attention (Ramsland, 2005). At the time of its publication Schmid
had been arrested and was standing trial in two separate trials for his slaying of three young girls. Schmids crimes and our societal accounts of them call to mind
questions regarding the concept of responsibility and how it plays out in our modern consciousness. Not only was the news media ablaze with this story, and not only did
it inspire Oates short story, it even inspired Bob Dylan to write and perform the song "Baby Blue". Many factual elements of Schmids
horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life" article as a relatively short man that added to his height by padding his
cowboy boots with rags and tin cans. This fact is included in Oates story and added to with her details on her characters peculiar walk. As strange as
both the fictional and real life characters were, from an adult perspective at least, they each were somehow irresistibly attractive to their victims and to Tucsons youth in general.
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