Loners

The book Quarantine the loners starts out with the main character David who figures out his girlfriend Hillary has been cheating on him with one of his teammates from his football team. David's mother did about a year back and David's girlfriend said he hasn't been the same ever since she passed away and Hillary wouldn't wanna be with David anymore. The next day David and Will were heading back to school which was a new school with the same teachers and students just a new school. Right as David

Loner, hermit, introvert, misfit, whatever you may call them, you know someone that you’d classify as one. They’re the kid in the corner of the room during a party standing by themselves, they might be the one kid that kid that didn’t go or wasn’t invited to the party. The student at the back of the class that will speak on occasion if they have to, they might even be the person sitting right next to you and you might not even know it. You either don’t know how to act or talk to them, they give off

(Campbell and Kean 274). For the purpose of this essay, they will be referred to as princesses (formerly cheerleaders), loners (formerly goths) and rebels (formerly stoners). In this essay, I will argue that 10 Things I Hate About You does not have the mentioned stereotypes. In 10 Things I Hate About You the main characters can be divided into these categories. Kat Stratford is the loner. She is described by Cameron James as “anti sociable”. A student of L. Monique Pittman states “[s]he’s harsh and brash

have a wife or family to go home vent to which helps alleviate the stress of the day for most people. The only person he has consistently is himself which leads him to believe that he is sufficient with bottling up daily problems. The reason for this loner mentality is because Pierre has become to believe that he is at the end of his life and that he is simply a cog in the machine of process. His mindset is a direct result from his past, with the loss of his mother (the only close family he had), his

In 2008, a 17 year old social recluse hijacked a bus and killed an innocent passenger. Another social withdrawal kidnapped a girl and held her captive in his bedroom for nine years. A fear of social recluse is dominating newspaper headlines. The way they communicate with the world is only to talk with online TV, the Internet or an anonymous people via SNS. As a result, a new concept of isolated human beings "Hikikomori" has emerged in our society. This social phenomenon is rapidly spreading in the

Writing Assignment # 1 “The End of Solitude” by William Deresiewicz Summary William Deresiewicz is a contemporary writer, reviewer, and literary critic. He taught at Yale University from 1998 to 2008. This essay, "The End of Solitude," that Deresiewicz wrote, explains with the mixture of new technology it is becoming almost unheard of for people to be alone. He also goes on explaining that newer generations have no aspiration to be alone because they are afraid to

The archetypal high school student that I chose was loners because loners are people that prefer to be alone. There’s a lot of kids that are loners in high school. Some kids don't like hanging out with others because they think that they will make fun of them. Some people prefer to be lonely because they like peace. There's some kids that are just used to being alone. I also chose loners because when I first came to high school I was once a loner. I didn’t really like people, and I couldn’t really

in their Para social celebrities lives then in their own lives. From psychological study its shows that people who don’t have a significant other are more likely to be associated with a para social relationship. 2. From the statement “a nation of loners” Halpern means that Americans are isolating themselves even more nowadays. Americans are more independent then they were ever before, due to factors including their jobs and how they want to live. In the last few decades he has seen that this problem

I’m reading Quarantine: The loners by Lex Thomas. At this point in the book, the military are dropping food down so everyone can eat. But there are gangs formed and the strongest one is called varsity. The other gangs are nerds, geeks, freaks, pretty ones, sluts, and varsity. The there are the people who are not in a gang called scraps. Varsity is the most powerful gang with the most food and supplies. Sam, the leader of varsity, is now feared by many after he killed a man at one of the food drops

I have gotten all the way through the book Quarantine: The Loners; an excellent author named Lex Thomas wrote the book. The book starts off with the main character; David finding out that his longtime girlfriend Hilary is cheating on him with one of his teammates from the football team. David’s mother died a year ago and Hilary says that David hasn’t been the same ever since, and that she can’t stay with him anymore. David sees his teammate, Sam the one who Hilary cheated on him with and ends up