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…of a stranger: “It’s like there was a fellow in every man that’s done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and astonishment.”(238). Faulkner’s attempt to illustrate the concept of emotional…

…In “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”, Whitman tries to understand the relationship between human beings across time. Whitman tries to figure out what he means to the people he sees, the crowds of strangers that inhabit Brooklyn. In the poem he assumes we…

…of Carl Heine (Eric Thal, "A Stranger Among Us") who was found drowned in his fishing nets with a bash to his head. The two were boyhood friends who were forced apart when Carl's mother reneged on a land sale made by her husband with Kazuo's father. As Ishmael…

…proposal if the circumstances were different. The strawberry fields also represent the society and the openness. Whenever she is picking strawberries with Ishmael, they act like strangers—how the society expects them to. They are forced to cover their true…

…and in this part of the country he was a stranger. He had no group that was really his own, and he had no one to model himself on. He didn’t know what was expected of him. (46-47) Ferdinand attends the lycee where he is given many different facades to try on for size…

…this Esperanza sees her family’s poverty clearly for the first time, and what this poverty represents to strangers on a social scale. She realizes that she doesn’t want to live like this and doesn’t want people to think that about her forever and she pursues a life…

…after the sexual revolution of the sixties many people find it difficult and embarrassing to talk about the affairs of the body in the group of close people but in the group of strangers it is even less common. The Wife is sex-crazed, unscrupulous…

…of Dinah best. In her first confused reaction to Dinah, Lisbeth shows the impression any stranger in distress might have upon encountering Dinah. “‘Ah!’ said Lisbeth slowly, still wondering; ‘ye comed in so light, like the shadow on the wall, an’ spoke i’ my…

…with each breath. Upon arrival in the park, she noticed the band playing better than usual. She knew that the season has begun because the band is playing for strangers, and not just playing for the regulars. Miss Brill sits at her “special” spot…

…forcibly re-establish control of Arrakis, Paul and his mother make their way to the deep desert and the Fremen. Although a stranger, he becomes a leader among the Fremen because of his mental abilities. Thus he brings about the final triumph of the Atreides over…