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    The importance of community and the charity of strangers is very prominent in Angela’s Ashes and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The way that strangers treat them compared to how their own families act is a large difference. Strangers tend to be more charitable and kind, but their families don’t seem to care as much about them. The way their families treat them in both stories is negative. In Angela’s Ashes Malachy and Angela are distant parents. Malachy drinks and doesn’t bring money home

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    Tension in Witch's Money   In John Collier's "Witch's Money," the stranger who suddenly appears in a remote mountain village in Spain is initially seen by Foiral as an unwelcome madman. Certainly his surrealist description of the landscape must seem a symptom of insanity to one unfamiliar with the trends of modern art. Once he offers a nice sum of money to buy Foiral's house, however, the stranger is treated with a new attitude. He is still not completely accepted by the community that he

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    his own arrival as well as that of an Eleatic stranger who moved in the circles surrounding Parmenides. Theodorus introduces this stranger as a “rather philosophical man,” as if to challenge Socrates. Socrates mocks Theodorus in return, asking whether he has deceived even himself and is bringing not a man but some sort of god. In doing so, Socrates references Homer, who says, according to Socrates, that “the gods, and especially the god of strangers, become fellow travelers with men who share in

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    Essay: essay# Talking to Strangers Talking to Strangers There are two ways that people are able to choose when they meet strangers. Frist, people can friendly to the strangers and have a good time to communicate with strangers. The other way is that people can indifferent to the strangers and never stop to talk with them. It seems that more and more people choose the second way, because they are afraid of meeting trouble. There is a tale called “Little Red Cap”, written by Brothers Grimm. Through

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    that a stranger faces when presented with the choice between the serenity of the woods and his duties and responsibilities to the village. Assignment outline Time of poem: Iambic The number of iambic feet in each sentence and stanza of the poem Identifying stressed syllables Four stanzas The stranger comes across the woods The horse he is riding on wonders why they have to stop The sound of the horse’s bells brings the stranger to the world of reality from the world of fantasy The stranger realizes

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    Meursault The Stranger

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    “The Stranger”, written by Albert Camus, connects appropriately to the novel’s main character, Meursault. Meursault is a stranger in this novel, nobody really knows too much about him and his personal life. It seems as if not even his own girlfriend knew much about him. Meursault is more of an observer than a sharing type of person. This can be part of the reason of why he is such a stranger to other people. If someone is a stranger to you it means that you don’t know who they are. That seems to

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    loves to gamble, but more important perhaps, he likes to bet on animals that don’t seem like they have a good chance of winning, but with money on the table, he ends up winning. Smiley starts to educate his frog so that it can beat other frogs at jumping. Then he puts the frog on the market, so to speak, and starts making bets. One day, Smiley bets a stranger forty bucks that his frog can beat any other frog. The stranger says he doesn’t

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    Ithaca. It seemed wrong to “send any stranger packing-even one arriving in worse shape than you”(Homer 14.64-65). Almost everyone in the past lived by this principle. They would feed them,bath them,house them, and treat them as if they were related. As time shifts on society change as well as people change. People now would never let strangers into their house or anywhere remotely on it. It would seem incongruous if a person let a stranger into their house. It may seem like an odd thing these days It

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    to him. But each time there seems to be a consequence that stems from his pursuit of knowledge. What are the consequences of curiosity? When Victor meets the stranger on the ship, his interest immediately perks because although stranded, the stranger refuses to board the ship until he learns where the ship is bound. To Victor, the stranger’s question is rather peculiar, making Victor even more curious as he sees the terrible condition of the stranger’s body. The stranger has a story and Victor is dying

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    “The Chrysanthemums”, and “A&P”. In each of these works a feeling of desire is portrayed. In Sula, Sula desires to have the things that her friend Nel has. In “The Chrysanthemums”, Elisa desires for her husband to give her attention the way the stranger does. In “A&P”, Sammy desires the leader of the group of girls that waltz into his store. The characters in these works are all faced with desires that tempts them. Sula is a story that is mainly focused on the friendship between Sula and Nel.

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