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…experience. This may cause the student to neglect his or her studies. A home-schooled child may become uncomfortable with older authority figures. Older strangers do not teach home-schooled children; therefore, they may not develop the proper respect that is due…

…is still very young, "My child is yet a stranger in the world" but this is his own fault. Juliet is never able to venture out of her house except when going to see Friar Lawrence. Juliet's only friend is her nurse. Juliet's life is controlled and inhabited…

…in hopes that they will change for the better. Voltaire satirizes kings to show how worthless people in his contemporary society can be. When Candide and Martin meet Cacambo for dinner, they meet six strangers at the table (Voltaire, 124-125). They soon find…

…guidance is when visits Ithaca, giving him friendly advice under the disguise of being a stranger. She gives him a nudge in the right direction, at one point saying, "If I were you, I should take steps to make these men disperse" (1. 318-319). Yet another…

…female essence: "She sat alone in her room, weeping and telling herself she was shamed forever because she cared so much for a stranger that she wanted to yield to a mad passion and go against her father." (Edith Hamilton, Mythology) She cries, showing a weak…

…with a Native woman. In the Indian society, the exchanging of wives was very common, for an "Indian husband deemed it perfectly proper to lend his wife, even to stranger, for any period of time." (Kirk(Western), 25) This kind of behavior confused the fur traders…

…, lacked power in not speaking up. 'I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog' (pg 57). Looking on in disbelief, George would have had no idea that this situation would prove to foreshadow his own…

…were in high school you drank and went to parties because it was fun and a good way to meet people. But when I went to college everyone was suddenly a stranger again and it was time to branch out and find a new group of friends. So naturally I thought…

…their childhood by witnessing murders, not being able to function as normal children and losing family. Children were accustomed to witnessing murders of loved ones and even complete strangers. In one account of a typical day in Sarajevo, a young child describes how…

…and New Year's Eve dinner at King Arthur's Court in Camelot. Out of nowhere, a wondrous stranger, dressed entirely in green, with a gigantic ax in one hand, bursts into the hall. While the court stares in stunned silence, the Green Knight demands a challenge…