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    riches of this paradise. Salvatore makes the momentous decision to sell all he has – his land, his home, his livestock – and to take his children and aged mother to a better life across the ocean. As Salvatore embarks on his epic journey, he meets a mysterious English woman,

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    outcasts living next door. Each friend were very curious. There was a killer whom the group of friends got attacked one by one by a chainsaw. In And Then There Were None , they were eight people , who got invited to an island. Everyone were all strangers to each other, and all of them thought they were there for vacation or in Vera’s case, a job. In actuality, all of them were there to get killed for the act of murder. When both stories are compared, you can see that every character got killed in

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    Stranger Paper Playing the role of a Psychologist and trying to study a subject is not quite that easy. Trying to watch them without catching their attention can be quite hard, or even a glimpse of them in the crowded hallways. The subjects behavior, physical appearance and spoken words were documented. After observing the stranger for three weeks and collecting data under the radar it seems he is rather a mysterious person. The first day of observing gave the insight of how he thinks and a glimpse

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    in town a stranger recognizes Jules and tries to engage in conversation, “Is that you Jules?” the stranger asked. She tried to avoid any contact with the locals but the stranger insisted again and again. After the stranger was following her thru the town she decides to turn around and pull her shoto sword and placed it under the stranger neck and asked him, “How do you know my name?”. The stranger replied “I know your grandmother!”. She pulled her sword from the neck and told the stranger that she

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    Imagine loving a stranger but knowing you’re unable to be with them, Dana Gioia perfectly shows this in his poem “Summer Storm”. As Gioia’s poem is read, one can conclude that the speaker feels a love towards a stranger and feels the love back for a moment. Unfortunately is unable to be with this person because nothing was pursued. One could conclude that the love is forbidden or our other person is unsure of who they want to be with or who they are. Gioia uses rhyming in his poem to help the readers

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    The suitors thought that he was possibly a god. They talked among themselves about the mysterious beggar. “A poor show, that- hitting this famished tramp- Bad business, if he happened to be a god. You know they go in foreign guise, the gods do, looking like strangers, turning up in towns and settlements to keep an eye on manners, good or bad.”(line 1254-1259). None of the suitors knew that Odysseus was the old beggar but the

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    Eldest is the second book in a long series. The first book features a young farm boy, named Eragon. He finds a strange stone. Mysterious strangers show up in the town he lives in asking around about a stone like the one he found. The stone hatches into a dragon that quickly grows. THe strangers attack Eragon’s house while he is out and his cousin is working at his job. They kill Eragon’s uncle and destroy their home. Eragon runs away with Brom, a storyteller from the village. Eragon is now a Dragon

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    fates of its characters. Set on a remote island, ten strangers find themselves lured into a trap, accused of past crimes they have committed but for which they have escaped punishment. As the story unfolds, the weight of their guilt becomes increasingly palpable, driving them to madness and ultimately to their demise. Firstly, guilt in ATTWN manifests as a psychological burden that haunts the characters relentlessly. Each of the ten strangers carries the weight of their past misdeeds, whether it

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    Holly is a mysterious women as we get introduced in the first chapter of the novel “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” by Truman Capote. The narrator that's been away for 10 years goes back to the upper East Brownstone where he used to live with the mysterious Holly Golightly. It was a raining night and the narrator receives a call from Joe the owner of a bar around the corner, with news about Holly Golightly. The narrator hearing that there might be news about Holly took a cab to the bar not caring about the

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    Night Drive is a short story by the famous author, Will F. Jenkins. This suspenseful short story is about a woman, Madge, who has to drive at night to go get her husband from work. However, Mr. Tabor calls Madge to see if she could bring his niece with her. Madge has no problem to give Eunice, Mr. Tabor’s niece, a drive. On the other hand, this was a bit odd because Mr. Tabor's voice was a bit strange on the phone; also, Mr. Tabor’s wife was murdered on this very same road… The author creates a

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