A Responds to a Short Story Entitled “We Might As Well Be Strangers” by M.E Kerr Sofyan Widianto 0909032 English Literature Indonesia University of Education 2012 Based on my understanding to the short story Entitled “We Might As Well Be Strangers” written by M.E Kerr‚ after close reading and deep thinking to the short story I bravely assume that the short story shows the independency of a woman. The independency of a woman is shown through the main character in this story. The main problem
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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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Patrick Macdonald Mrs. Love Hilliard Creative Writing 8 April 2016 Stranger Than Fiction Essay Stranger Than Fiction is the story of an IRS agent‚ Harold Crick‚ who lives his life by the clock‚ without engaging‚ just observing and counting. When he starts to hear a narrator‚ Karen Eiffel‚ in his head‚ he starts to change. After the narrator says‚ “little did he know” he is facing imminent death‚ Harold seeks help from a literary critic‚ Jules Hilbert‚ who explores the story (his life) with him
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one to continue their drama. The characters barge in on another one of Pirandello’s plays and attempt to stage their unwritten play. The characters completely depend on an author to determine their fate. To me‚ this strongly resembles the movie Stranger than Fiction‚ directed by Marc Forster‚ written by Zach Helm‚ and starring Will Ferrell‚ Dustin Hoffman‚ Queen Latifah‚ Emma Thompson‚ and Maggie Gyllenhaal. In the movie‚ Will Ferrell’s character‚ Harold Crick‚ begins hearing a voice in his head
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To Pray or Not to Pray: An exploration into the relationship between religion and isolation in The Stranger and Chronicle of a Death Foretold Religion is a major foundation for many cultures. It is present all over the world in many different shapes and forms. But all religions have one thing in common‚ communality. Naturally‚ with rituals such as congregation people of religion are brought together. This community worships together‚ but this relationship extends further than the confines of a
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Literary analysis: How Meursault is indifferent in The Stranger‚ by Albert Camus Although Meursault is the title character and narrator of Albert Camus’ short novel The Stranger‚ he is also a somewhat flat character. His apparent indifferent demeanor may be a convenience to Camus‚ who mainly wanted to display his ideas of absurdism. And as a flat character‚ Meursault is not fully delineated: he lacks deep thought and significant change. His purpose is that of a first-person narrator whose actions
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“‘I shouldn’t ought let no stranger shoot my dog”’(61). Everyone wants a life with no regrets and Candy ends up regretting not killing his own best friend‚ instead of killing his dog he lets Carlson shoot him‚ and now he regrets it. The killing of Candy’s dog foreshadows the death of Lennie because the dog was shot in the back of the head like Lennie is‚ this quote is extremely important in the book because it is a statement that sticks with George especially when Lennie is being chased and Curley
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The article “If Hitler asked you to electrode a stranger‚ would you? Probably” by Philip Meyer discusses the Milgram experiment that took place in the 1960’s at Yale University. The experiment was designed to test obedience to authorities of higher power and how they can transform and individual to do things they could never do‚ without being pushed past their moral limits. I do believe that people today still value conformity and obedience to authority as they did in Milgram’s time. When people
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Reflection In the third chapter of Takaki’s book‚ ‘Stranger from a different shore- Gam Saan Haak’‚ talks about many Chinese immigrants moves to America for getting jobs. At first‚ the majority of Chinese immigrants went to California for the gold mining or the Gold Mountain. Takaki mention that‚ at first the Chinese were welcome to the America and offering working opportunities to them. However‚ because of their skin tone‚ language‚ faces were considered to the threat to the mining area. In
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Many books have been written by many authors that deal with a struggle between society and individual. Albert Camus’ The Stranger (L’étranger) deals with this same topic‚ but it can be analyzed from a unique and very interesting point of view. The way of life of people can be analyzed by classifying them into two main forces that oppose each other. These forces were named after the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus. Theses terms were first used by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The main
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