The Stranger Beside Me

all? Now, disregard them completely because no Minnesotan that I’ve ever met speaks in never-ending vowels. Listening to any more than thirty seconds of Fargo makes me want to go stick my head in a snowbank like I’m some sort of arctic emu. Yes, a fizzy beverage is a called pop and the game is Duck Duck Gray Duck, but you’ll never catch me slinging around “you betcha” and “don’tcha know” as if I’m a Canadian. However, when it comes to hotdishes and potlucks, the rumors are completely…

even to the way the book was composed gives this book such an extraordinary style. From the beginning of the book the reader is drawn into the world of Changez by the way the novel was structured. The chapter starts of with Changez saying, “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance?” (Hamid 1) and that sentence alone grasps a hold of the reader as the life story of Changez unfolds in…

bard sings of the Archaens' journey home from Troy, and Penelope, Odysseus' wife, is enraged because the tale reminds her of her grief. Penelope says, "break off this song- the unendurable song that always rends the heart inside me...the unforgettable grief, it wounds me most of all! How I long for my husband" (Homer 88). The bards singing harsly reminds the characters that Odysseus' life was blotted out in…

three years old. I didn’t know her very well. Everyone says things like, “Your grandmother was a wonderful lady.” and “Jenelle was a sweetheart.” They’d say all of this to me and I would try to feel some type of emotion for her but I could never conjure any up. I have exactly three memories about her. I remember her giving me this beautiful baby doll at Christmas. It was black with long black curly hair and she had on this red and white ruffled dress. I am pretty sure I only remember that…

gratitude too large to pay back in one lifetime for sparking a lifelong passion inside me. As we drove by, I peered out the window and felt immediately attracted to the structure. My eyes moved upwards to find the sign which read Bluefish Music, then down to the guitars lined up along the walls. “I didn’t know there was a guitar shop here”, I pondered. My mother projected her voice so that it would reach the back seat. “Me either. Do you want to check it out?”. Of course I did. I crossed the…

where you may dine in royalty. Pardon excepted kind strangers, but I have more than wine and bath that awaits my arrival, things like lessons and books, and seeing that I do not recognize your persons, nor know of any friend or relative of the island of Capri, I think it will readily satisfy you of my grateful decline of your offer.…

Detaching myself from the world around me to look in as a third party exposed the culture I have been raised into. To complete this assignments I went to Mirror Lake on campus to observe and document the social behaviors I witnessed. I recorded over a two day span. I first sat by the northern side of the lake on the stone fence, to be aloof from what was transpiring in front of me. The second day I sat on the western side on the grass under the trees to get right in the middle of what was…

Lord of the Flies 5/23/16 What would life be like with no rules no parents no morales and being only 12 years old? Lord Of The Flies is a story about a plane full of british children that crashes over the pacific ocean where everyone survives besides for the pilot. The young school boys find themselves on an uninhabited island with no laws no parents and just there morales to hold on to. In lord Of The Flies by Stephen King , Piggy and Jack can be catagorized under the archetypal character…

away from me! You’re horrible” (David 8). I cannot believe he would treat me as if I was a game or something. And how he played that nasty game with his friends. What kind of people are they to talk about… about masturbation like it was some kind of normal conversation. I am too hysterical of the way he played me to do anything at the moment. As I am t crying to catch a cab, I see this young buff man looking for someone. I pay no mind to him because I cannot think of anything besides what a…

One of my greatest toys as a child was my battery-powered Cadillac Escalade, an enormous five-hundred dollar car my mother worked so hard to get! My mom and grandpa even went to two different stores just to get it for me, because my mom really wanted me to have it. I remember being three-years-old and waking up to this half-scaled, maroon car and just being in awe at all the features it had! I remember it being roofless, and having a plastic key already in the ignition so that when you turned it…