Where are you going? Where have you been?

Literature, not just a class we all have to endure in order to pass school, but much more. Through various forms of literature such as: films, articles, novels, short-stories, songs, etc... meaning can be derived. Stories are portrayed and moral messages may be interpreted. Literature preserves our heritage and culture. Through literature one may learn where they have been, and where they may be going. In reading over "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and watching the film Smooth Talk, similarities are evident. Mostly descriptive details portrayed by the author are depicted in the film. Open to interpretation is whether or not Connie, victim of Arnold Friend-a sexual predator, is raped. The three articles on Charles Schmid, accused of three counts of murder in 1966, show that his three women victims remain similar, in that all three of the women prove to be decease. Alleen Rowe, one of Schmid's victims, relates to Connie, for she too is raped. Both girls are portrayed as the prey. All of these passages relate in one central idea that there are predators and rapist out in the world and young women are commonly victims. There are many points of iterations or commonality between all of these works of literature.