The Stranger

sexual assault. Nevertheless, in Tennessee Williams play A Street Car Named Desire the character Blanche’s rape occurs based in her own actions and decisions. First, I agree with society’s perception that women who flirt around with men, sleep with strangers, and display an external demonstration of themselves deserve to be raped. I believe that any woman who acts…

While reading The Stranger, I knew the book had been translated from French, but disregarded that the translation might lead to alterations of words or ideas based on the style of the translation. With books originally written in one’s own language, it becomes easier to derive meaning closer to the author’s intentions as meaning through translating the language. However, after the Interactive Oral, I have a greater awareness of such aspects. For example, the first line of The Stranger in…

For my social experiment I chose to ask strangers if I could borrow a chapstick. Not only did this violate the social norm of strangers keeping to themselves, but also the sharing of a personal object, and asking both men and women for this ‘gendered’ object. All these common cultural norms are taken for granted, and I was unsure what would occur once they were broken. Out of the three subjects I approached asking for a chapstick, two were female and one was male. All three were very taken…

For seven years, I enjoyed a weeklong summer camp at Camp Ernst. I swam, kayaked, rode horses, and participated in arts and crafts. Each summer, I dragged myself from the sleepy summer rut in which I always fell and woke up for polar bear swims and archery practice. Although I have long since ended this routine, the camp greatly affected my social skills and my perception of nature and of my family. I do not consider myself very sociable nowadays, but I do consider myself a great actor. I am not…

approaches him asking to play or talk to him, he will not focus on them. One day at a play café another boy (stranger) approached this child and said, “Do you want to play with me” as most children do, although the child chooses to ignore the other child then says “Why wont you play with me” and the child says “No, goodbye”. This makes it difficult as this particular young child was a stranger in the individuals eyes and will only ever give…

your family will affect you and what they bring to each day. You will see how your friends affect your day, and lastly you will see how outsider, or strangers will affect your day. In “Meditation 17” by John Donne, you can clearly see how his idea that “No man is and island” still stands strong today, through your family, friends and even strangers.…

Underlying Theme in Crime and Punishment and The Stranger Both The Stranger by Albert Camus and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky explore the criminal mind and its psyche. Each novel addresses the spectrum of emotions an individual deals with within their mind after committing a murder. Both books are centered on one criminal act that allows the reader to delve into the thought process of a convicted murderer, each varying from one another. In The Stranger, Meursault is seen as a static…

A child grows an attachment with their caregiver. As infants we begin to see caregivers other than their mother such as nannies or grandmothers or even strangers. Many infants are separated from their mother, this can have positive and or negative effects on the child. It is important for the reader to know that all children have individual differences in attachment which can be caused by the situations the child is put through during the first year of life. The Strange Situation is an…

myself” (Alsultany, 236). Evelyn finds herself constantly in the situation of being questioned by other strangers from which ethnic background she’s coming from, because she doesn’t look like the typical American. And just because they can’t really identify her cultural and racial background, she talks about how strangers try to use different labels on her. And when the assumptions from the strangers…

MY FEAR OF STRANGERS One day, it was a dark and stormy night it was very very dark. I just came out of the shower. After I got out of the shower I put my pajamas, I looked out the window a stranger was looking straight at me I ran to my closet scared and nervous. I watched some videos to calm me down it kind of worked but, still scared frightened even. “Who would be awake and want to scare children, how do people enjoy that. Do they think it’s funny? Even if they think it is funny it’s not…