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…to bust through his skin. (48-49) Zola shows that workers had extremely demanding labor in horrible conditions without enough food - a deadly combination. In fact, death was not a stranger to the miners. One sabotaged accident left fifteen victims presumed…

…believed it to be Miss Havisham. One evening while living in England, a stranger appears to visit Pip. It was the convict of his youth. Named Magwitch, he has been Pip's benefactor all along. This was his way of repaying his charity as a youth. The events…

…be Blanche.         Because of all this, Blanche fell into another illusion. She figured that if she were loved again, the way Allan and her were meant to be, then she could be happy again. So, 'after the death of Allan - intimacies with strangers…

…We were strangers from the beginning tormented by our difference which did not exist. (Betsy Warland)         An important ingredient inherent in a successful mother-daughter relationship is balance. Like the scales of justice…

…. Henchard takes an instant liking to the total stranger and convinces Farfrae to stay on in Casterbridge as his right-hand man. Henchard even tells Farfrae the two greatest secrets of his life: the sale of his wife and the affair he has had with a Jersey woman…

…they no longer deal with the problem of keeping him and hiding him from strangers.         Each time the subject of Gregor came up, they would mention how useless he was. He was only good when he could provide for the family and so was never really…

…, for example, is one of the debauched maids in Ithaka. She is rude and inhospitable to Odysseus when he is disguised as a beggar. She says to him: "Wretched stranger, you must be one whose wits are distracted, when you will not go where the smith is at work…

…such as the 'Welcome Stranger' sign under which Vargas soon stands show the surface friendliness, yet also reveal the sarcastic element of racism that will appear. Similarly, these opening shots introduce the forbidden relationships that develop in the border situation…

…hardly apply to a city like New York today, where persons in their daily lives are likely to be preoccupied with making a living and where residents of the dame apartment building nay be strangers to one another. The reason why neither the state nor the city…

…that signaled the birthing of a new culture. In Columbus' Journal he describes the Native Americans response, "They signified their admiration and reverence of the strangers by touching them, kissing their hands and feet, and making signs of wonder…