Stranger in a Strange Land

more common sense. Also, poor little Pitty could have been left at home instead of being dragged along to this trip. Not many cats like a creepy car ride though the country after all. In “Good Country People,” another family has a run in with a stranger and mistakenly entrusts him with their trust and good nature. In the story, there is a woman known as Mrs. Hope, who is the mother of a girl named Joy. Though Joy prefers to be called Hulga. This pair is not two peas in a pot though. They are in…

journey across the American Northwest. When the men were on the brink of starvation, she found food. When sickness spreads through the camp, she made medicine to heal. When they encounter other Indian tribes, she was a signs of peace and translated the strange Indian languages. Without this brave 16 year old…

George sat with his good friend, Fred, at a table eating dinner. Fred was an adventurer, he was always going on the most spectacular quests and discovering new things, in new lands. Whenever he came back from a quest he would tell George about them. George always looked forward to hearing his friend’s stories about the dangers and thrills of the adventures he went on. [2] After Fred finished telling his stories, he would ask George how his life was and what had happened while he was gone.…

Just strangers in a foreign land. That is how many immigrants feel when they first arrive in the United States. Some seek shelter, while others are looking better job opportunities. All feel a bit out of place. In a country where, “Millions of working Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from”, these adopted Americans find a way to at the least make it come from their homelands. These people find ways to bring a piece of their home with them. While they can’t bring their home,…

Man’s Land, a play written by Harold Pinter, further explores the theme of reality and it’s relationship to existentialism. Two men in their sixties, Hirst and Spooner, are talking in Hirst’s living room. They have just met at a bar. They are both drinking, which is evident from the somewhat choppy dialogue. The encounter seems choppy as well. At first the two men seem like strangers but as the dialogue continues Spooner heckles Hirst about his wife and his manhood. These are seemingly strange…

Emily Nguyen Mr. Whitmore Honors English 1 December 2, 2014 Great Expectations Character Essay “Strange how sometimes strangers start feeling like family while families start becoming strangers in our life.” –unknown Abel Magwitch, a perceived villain, is introduced into the novel Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens as an unnamed, escaped convict and Pip’s utmost horror. Although the beginning chapters lead the reader to believe “the convict” is a dangerous and cruel individual, he…

Jason, opening up her head and stealing her brain for ideas. After calming down from such a horrific dream, Penelope streched her arms for she felt as stiff as a brick. She tried to move her arms out, but for some reason, they wouldn’t move. “How strange,” Penelope thought, “I have never felt so tight. It must have been the dream. I think I should just get up and start walk around to loosen up.” But as Penelope tried to turn and sit up, she found that she was unable to do any movement at all. “I…

very beginning of Gulliver’s adventure. Gulliver is portrayed as a stranger in a strange land. Gulliver’s Travels…

Throughout the Odyssey, Ithaca is constantly hailed as the ideal community, one which Odysseus desperately seeks to return to from the savage and uncivilised lands he journeys through. Homer uses this representation of Ithaca as the ideal Greek community to both emphasise the differences and lack of civilisation in other communities – such as in the land of the Cyclopes – and draw comparisons between more civilised communities encountered by Odysseus, in particular that of the Phaecians. This…

Douglass’s delighted state of mind is, “however, very soon subsided; and [he] was again seized with a feeling of great insecurity and loneliness” (Douglass 136). Douglas deliberately renders this time to express his fear of being recaptured by a northern stranger, of falling “into the hands of money-loving kidnappers” (Douglass 136). Douglass’s conscious use of…