Stranger than Fiction

Never have I realized the reality of the world until my birth nation, the United States, helped me come upon all the colors outside the pink bubble I was living in. I was always under the fear of getting out of my comfort zone. I grew up in Mexico with my two parents, and two older brothers. Although, I was born in the United States I have always considered myself Mexican. I was living in the city of Tijuana, which is considered one of the most dangerous cities of the world due to its reputation…

On the Should of a Stranger The sound of my shovel breaking the ground is the only noise that reaches my ears. The warm tears running down my cheeks, the only thing I feel. I slow down my breathing to match the rhythm of the steady chink of my shovel as it enters the dirt, almost reaching a hypnotic state. Anything to keep my mind off what is happening. Chink. An image of me on my knees beside the road flashes before my eyes, and with it comes a searing pain. My shovel misses its mark and…

2. At the beginning of the story, we learn that Scout goes through many difficulties while growing up. They referred to her as a “tomboy” which means doing things that only “boys” would do. Scout is the opposite of a girl, does not act like a girl, and does whatever she can do to be as if she were a boy. She acts like a boy mainly because Scout is surrounded by boys in the neighborhood, especially since her brother Jem is always with his sister and with his all of his friends. This ends up…

of humans in his esteemed novels, especially his 1942 classic The Stranger. The Stranger demonstrates Camus’ absurdist beliefs, sending a message to the world that life is meaningless and that personal values deserve to be defended. In this novel, Camus’ character of Meursault is the “stranger” that the title refers to because he is greatly misunderstood by his society due to his differing beliefs. Meursault narrates The Stranger, and his voice sets an indifferent tone in the novel. He is an…

stereotypes. When Existentialist Albert Camus published The Stranger,it describes not just the principles of this theology, but how society perceives it. Meursault was viewed as unloving towards his girlfriend, cold and heartless when he did not cry in his mother’s funeral and hopeless when he does not believe in God. However, these horrors can be mediated through existentialism through self enlightenment and acceptance. In The Stranger,…

handle different situations in his own unique way. Despite his growth, he still holds on to some vestigial characteristics, in particular crying, from his first entrance into the symbolic and imaginary order. Charlie is more emotional and sensitive than what is expected from a male figure but he understands that everyone is different, and because of his particular circumstances while growing up, it’s ok to create his own identity. Charlie’s admission into and through the symbolic order is…

For example, all of my people would offer anything and everything they could to the strangers who would ardently take them without consideration, as they had a callous attitude towards the “savages”, or so they would call us. Many of my people started getting a mysterious sickness in which their whole body deteriorated, got covered in rashes…

sunlight to guide us, cautiously walking frantically trying to get out of the heavily forested area. We then saw a flickering light and immediately ran as fast as we could toward it. As we approached the light, we discovered that it was a complete stranger with a flashlight. Behind him was my parents.…

already struggles with depression created by himself and everything around him, and this refusal to let him in hurts Holden more than he wants to admit. Since being excluded has become normal or usual for Holden, he begins to give up as he starts to believe he will never be…

2) a,b : This passage is taken from "What is Enlightenment", by Immanuel Kant, from the first page of the essay. Kant is criticizing the over dependence of a grown up individual for nurturing and caretaking and possibly resisting the responsibilities brought to him. He says these deficiencies are caused by laziness and cowardice. Kant states that enlightenment is a man freeing himself from self-imposed nonage. He moves on explaining the reasons why this nonage takes place, and then moves on…