Short Story Socratic Questions

For my short story I read Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? Below you will find Socratic Questions going over the piece said above. The answers to these questions will be below the questions.

1. Where did Connie's parents go on Sunday?
2. Why does Connie decide to leave the house in the end of the story?
3. In the 21st century, do people get kidnapped this way usually or is it different now, if so then how?
4. How has 'hanging out with your friends' changed now? For example, they went to the diner or the mall to hang out and then she went to eat with the boy, but that's obviously not what we do now as teenagers...what's changed? 
5. Does Oates do a good job of revealing Connie's deeper thoughts as the kidnappers talk her to coming out the door?

Answers

1. To a barbecue.
2. To save her family and because she never really felt apart of them anyways
3. It's extremely different now. There's many different ways, some are car pick ups, candy, date rape drugs, things like that usually. Especially rape is becoming increasingly common now, society "Teaches to not be raped instead of not to rape."
4. Now it's usually a party with drinking, drugs, and sex. Teens use lots of excuses to go out and party like “I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much" (The Demon King).
5. I think partly yes and partly no, she gives off the hint of Connie being able to do something for herself for once and being able to go out there alone without help and be able to do it on her own. But Oates also doesn't officially make this revealed so its confusing if it's just a thought or not. "Connie felt the linoleum under her feet; it was cool. She brushed her hair back out of her eyes. Arnold Friend let go of the post tentatively and opened his arms for her, his elbows pointing in toward each other and his wrists limp, to show that this was an embarrassed embrace and a little mocking, he didn't want to make her self-conscious." This tells you that she does leave the door and she's still comprehending everything but other than that it's confusing.