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…were a stranger towards his mates. On a ship, a crew is supposed to be a family. They are supposed to work together. It is like marriage, crewmembers go through the thick and the thin together and love each other in the end. The captain contradicts…

…him that it was punishment for being inhospitable to Odysseus and his crew. It was an important cultural value of the ancient Greeks that a person should accept any stranger into their home and treat them with courtesy, and even present them with gifts…

…thinks of others before himself. This is clearly evident when he goes to help the child's dyeing mother even though he knows that he will miss his boat: But the stranger got up as though unwillingly he had been summoned to an occasion he couldn't pass by. He…

…what I've understand, medicine is the one field where that can happen and stranger allows you to see and touch them in a personal way. Does that really happen in medicine? Before entering UCLA as a freshman nothing in my personal, academic, and volunteer…

…had been talking about, but when she notices the inspector she changes her character from excited and happy to that of what she would have been taught to behave like in a strangers company. As Shelia is from an upper class family she would have been taught…

…been changed slightly. The hands folded at his waist were not those of my strong and healthy uncle. Rather, they looked old and frail, as dried husks of skin. I felt oddly indifferent standing there, inspecting this dead stranger with more of a sense…

…Justice is blind. It cannot see the truth. The truth that I am innocent. Wrongly accused of a callous murder. There I stood in the middle of a courtroom surrounded by strangers. Strangers who are just about to decide whether I am worthy of a descent life…

…, to the neighborhood grocery to buy a candy bar and a drink. Even though my mother taught me about safety and cautioned me about strangers, I believe that my childhood has made me a very friendly, trusting person. <Tab/>There was never a worry of crime in my…

…kills Lenny. I think that George is very smart for doing this because earlier in the book when Candy's dog was put to rest, he said, "I should have shot my dog, I shouldn't have let a stranger do it." I think that this is why George shot Lennie. Why let…

…. This secret that Nora has kept and "In time she will [reveal]" is the catalyst for the turn of events which occur. Nora's current social position and status prevents her from revealing and divulging why she borrowed money from a stranger and forged a contact…