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* Where are you going, where have you been?
            à Connie: a beautiful, self-absorbed, 15 years old girl, odd with her mother - once beauty
                 herself – and with her dutiful, “steady”, and homely older sister
            à She was bored in the mid – July (Summer vacation)
            à Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was
                 not home (she’s not a bad child, she just need some notice and care from the others (不
                 招蜂引蝶)
            à Arnold Friend: ironic pun
                        - A glance at a face sometimes a glance will change your life
                        - She rejected to go with him, he become forceful and threat Connie
                          saying that he will harm her family  
            à An open-ended story: Connie leaves her front porch
                        - She cried out, she cried for her mother, she felt her breath start jerking
                          back and forth in her lungs as if it were something Arnold Friend was
                          stabbing her with again and again with no tenderness 

                 

* Bob Dylan
            à American musician, singer, song writer
            à influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades
            à His recording implying electric instruments which very special in that period
                of time
            à he participated in African-American civil rights movement (1954 – 1968)
                        - in the U.S. whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination
                          against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them



* Beat generation
            à group of American post – World War II writers who care to prominence in the 1950s as
                 well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired
            à “Beat” cultural rejection of received standards, innovations in style, experimentation
                with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in religion, a rejection of materialism, and
                explicit portrayals of the human condition
            à  Allen Ginsberg’s Howl is one of the best known example of Beat literature, it is a poem
                 published in 1955
            à Daniel Radcliffe
                        - An English actor, prominence as the title character in the Harry Potter
                        - He began to branch out to stage acting, a London and New York
                           productions of Equus
                                    - Equus: by Peter Shaffer, a story of a psychiatrist who attempts to
                                      treat a young man who has a pathological religions fascination
                                      with horses


* Lost generation
            à The generation that came of age during WWI
            à Gertrude Stein is an example, a moveable feast (人類文明的落魄), the term
                 was popularized by Ernes Hemingway (U.S. expatriate act)
            à Expatriate vs. Patriot (愛國者)
                                    - Expatriate = a person temporarily in a country other than that of
                                      person’s upbringing (similar to immigrants, migrant workers)
                                    

* Secret Garden
            à May, the most disagreeable looking child
            à Ayan (印尼庸人) took care of her
            à Bildungsroman: a novel of education or coming of age story
            à “If you are not born with the golden spoon, educate yourself”
                                            

* The woman in black (2012)
            

* Se - : apart from, away from; ex. select, separate, segregate
   Dis - : negative meanings