The Stranger Beside Me

And what am I going to do for two whole months with someone I haven’t seen since I was six? That was half my life ago. She’s a stranger!” I felt a sudden urge to bolt for the front door and run” (24). This shows the tension building between Izzy (narrator) and her mother. The mother feels she will get new experiences living with the nana a practically articular stranger to Izzy for the summer. On the other hand Izzy (narrator) feels that she is being abandoned and her mother only cares about…

human nature. When I was younger, I'd ask God to grant me everything I felt I couldn't attain myself: intelligence, financial comfort, consistent sobriety for my mother- essentially freedom from all difficulty. I felt I had no power over these things in my life and that I needed God to fix them up for me. When he didn't, I felt betrayed and confused. My head told me that I'd been coaxed into complacency, but my conditioned heart told me that God was there, listening to my blasphemous thoughts.…

work suddenly, looking around myself. There are others here, strangers I had yet to meet. But the longer watched the more people stood. They looked just as confused as I felt, and we all made eye contact. These who stood were like me; drop outs, washed out Padawans. Of course, that didn’t mean we weren’t still connected to the Force. One of the boys walked over to me, “I don’t like it.” “Neither do I.” Ryate had come to this planet with me, and though we had only met once before that, we had…

which in turn exposes the realities of sexual abuse or sex slavery. The speaker uses a powerful imagery to show readers the psychological effect of sexual slavery when she says, “…I’d been bred to be docile, to allow hands to touch, to feed…so when a stranger unlocked my cage, I did not bite, I did not flee” (22). This poem can easily be connected to the one on page 14, “After My Mother’s Death, I feel Nothing” because both speakers have lost something, and sometimes excessive pain of loss can…

with Genevieve. Not knowing how or why this play causes disturbances is unknown at this point. The ambiguity of it all definitely adds to the stories. Mention of “The Fates,” is another connection between The Mask and The Repairer of Reputations. Besides knowing that they are a group of sculptures, one wearing a version of Boris’ face, the reader is still left…

If I recall some of the darkest moments in my life, they involve a growling stomach keeping me awake at night, or limbs that feel like lead because I haven’t consumed enough energy to make them move properly, or crouching beside a toilet because I was worried about what that dessert would do to my figure. What is truly frightening is that my experience is one of the mildest of girls I have met. One would be hard-pressed to find a girl who did not restrict her eating or exercise to a point that…

As the note, slid to the floor beside her feet. Tear drops slid down Isabella’s face. She stared into the fire lost, confused and alone as she reminisced on the past few months……… Being, the youngest daughter of one of the country’s, most influential men. Isabella never had a normal childhood. Sheltered by her father and three sisters; she felt trapped and never truly herself. Her father, Warth, was a wealthy merchant and was traditional, in every aspect of his life and proud of the customs of…

Literary works provide us with excitement and relaxation. Apart from that, literary works convey to us messages and ideas of the author. Despites enjoying the art of their works, critics are also very important in order to dig the deeper meaning and understanding of the literary works. Literary criticism, as defines by Roger Webster (1996), inlvolves reading, interpretation of and commentary on a specific text or text which have been designated as literature. By looking at the defination,…

The first day of autumn in 2010 was fulfilled with color of bizarre and exclusionary sight. It was also the first time, of which I stepped into this land of freedom. But it didn't bring me the exemption of excitement, but more of the insecurity deep inside myself. It wasn't like the uncertainty of moment which I experience when leaving my home but the doubt of who will I be in the next few years of my future. But the time that follows the present time from now seems so near but yet so far. I had…

understood.” Actually, reading books helps me to explore the world. When I was just a little girl, I loved reading fairy tales which brought me to many vicarious thrilling adventures, and when growing up, non-fiction books taught me how to become a good person. Besides that, reading has brought me to many various levels of emotions, such as joy, love, hate, fear, and sorrow. Some stories not only make me feel euphoric with happy endings, but they also make me feel despondent when a character’s…