The Stranger

believes whatever they are imagining, like if it was real. In the story “Where is here” by Joyce Carol Oates, shows and explains, how imagination takes over all reason. “Where is here” is a Gothic story about a stranger that wanted to see his old childhood home. As the unknown stranger looked around the…

Values: Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable. ““That must be a strangers house,” Leola thought to herself… “I know my Grandmama told me about strangers.” “ “” I know my Grandmama said, “Never go inside folks’ houses until first being politely asked..”” “”I know my Grandmama said, “Never help yourself in folks’ kitchens until first being politely asked..”” Throughout the story Leola remembers all the values her Grandmama has taught her. The types of…

readers to question themselves about what was actually happening in the photos. Transformation causes fear because what can originally seem good can always turn into a bad situation. Transformation in “Where is Here” by Oates creates fear because the stranger is very suspicious. Transformation in “House Taken Over” by Cortazar creates fear because the houses’ setting is very old and spacious. Transformation in “Dream Collector” by Tress creates fear because the photos can be very tricky as of…

The unsaid request Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known for his pen name Mark Twain was a realistic writer. He is one of the most celebrated American authors, who used his pen to depict social realism (New World Encyclopedia contributors). Mark Twain’s The War Prayer is one of the most controversial satires all this time. In the satire Mark Twain eloquently illuminate the shadows of our humanity, the feelings one doesn’t actually realize they have and his feelings on war. In The War Prayer, it…

you just scan it 20 times? It’s all the same brand.” Donovan looked at the man’s cart and back at him. The stranger was wearing a bright, multicolored, Nike, wind runner jacket with an orange Underarmour shirt peeping through the top, and baggy, ripped jeans. Don couldn't see the man’s shoes, but with the information provided, he could guess that they were probably just as bad. The stranger had sharp hazel eyes that raced around looking at everything and black bedhead that actually wouldn’t have…

accepting strangers…

their mother. They love their father too, but they have a closer bond and attachment to their mother. When a child is a couple of months old they can recognize the difference between their mom and dad and strangers. For this reason one…

their own fortune. A gambler, “Jim Smiley” a man who tricks people in bets for money; however, wins every bet he makes. One day Smiley gets out-tricked for the first time when he makes a bet with a stranger to see who’s frog can outjump each other. While Smiley looks for a frog at the swamp for the stranger who later during that time gets a teaspoon of quail, and filled him up near up to his chin. As the jump happened Smiley’s frog didn’t jump while…

Mary Dinsmore Ainsworth, an American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work on the development of attachment theory, is credited with the design of the strange situation procedure to analyze the psychological attachment between a child and its mother or caregiver which was used to advance the theory which many still look at today. A bit of history on Mary helps us understand her and the understanding she had on the subject. Ainsworth was born in Glendale, Ohio and raised in…

There is something that makes me stand out from others: my younger twin sister, Sophia, and I are fraternal twins. Although we’re fraternal twins who technically don't look alike, my sister and I share almost identical facial and body features, to the point where people wouldn’t be able to recognize who is who from the back. This is why there is always confusion between our friends about if the person they are greeting is the right twin, (and most of the time it is not). Most people would get…