The Mysterious Stranger

revolution. He grew up under communism and experienced the Cultural Revolution. Zhao became a prominent leader of the democracy movement, voicing his opinions in his writing. He specifically wrote three poems, “Language”, “One Step”, and “A Perpetual Stranger”, to express his political opinions without direct consequences or censorship from the Chinese government. Zhao Zhenkai writes these

One of the spookiest moments of my life, was exploring an abandoned warehouse and the door slammed shut, an entire flock of birds started to fly at me. This scenario is similar to the traits of Gothic Literature and Magical Realism because it is a description of the eerie setting and events. Gothic Literature and Magical Realism are similar because they both illustrate ideas of suspense and mystery throughout. Edgar Allen Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”is an example of Gothic lit because they

This article discusses the TV show ‘Stranger Things’ by intertwining the idea of childhood freedom within it. The show portrays a bunch of kids biking around town unsupervised and solving mysteries and ‘saving’ the town. The author, Anna North, then uses this notion to discuss how nowadays the idea of unstructured childhood is almost nonexistent and that parents are involved in everything due to cell phones, fear of child molesters and a move towards more parental involvement. North also gives two

his little self and then there were Nine…One little soldier boy left all alone; he went and hanged himself And then there were None” (Green). A group of 10 strangers are sent to the mysterious Soldier Island for a so called vacation. What they don’t know is that there is one murderer among them. During their first night on the island, a mysterious record reveals the darkest secret of each person, they are murderers. Soon after that, the first murder is committed and death is among them. As the crowd

bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability. This novel was a huge success. His many books that followed were essentially variations on Ragged Dick and featured casts of stock characters: the valiant hard-working, honest youth, the noble mysterious stranger, the snobbish youth, and the evil, greedy squire. In the 1870s, Alger's fiction was growing stale. His publisher suggested he tour the American West for fresh material to incorporate into his fiction. Alger took a trip to California, but the

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks is a fantasy novel that follows a group of people brought together to retrieve the magical Sword of Shannara, which is the only weapon that can defeat Brona, the evil Warlock Lord. The only person who can wield the Sword is Shea, who does not even believe the tales about Brona. When his family is threatened, Shea reluctantly joins the quest to find the Sword and destroy Brona. The location is a world where science destroyed the landscape in a horrific holocaust

Directors utilize a variety of editing tools to highlight elements of a film’s narrative. Cross-cutting is an editing technique that shows multiple streams of action occurring at the same time. Steven Soderbergh uses this device in the opening sequences of his film, Contagion, (2011). The film begins with a black screen and the sound of a cough from an unknown person and cuts to a close-up of Gwyneth Paltrow eating nuts out of a bowl at an airport bar. Soderbergh shows the viewer that this is

to often adopt a feminine persona in the play. Many binary oppositions are encompassed in that of masculinity versus femininity, a few of which are aggressiveness versus docility, intelligence versus ignorance, and the understandable versus the mysterious. Medea exhibits typical

school is bombed, and everyone he knows is killed. Aries survive an earthquake aftershock on a bus, and thinks the worst is over when a mysterious stranger pulls her out of the wreckage, but she’s about to discover a world changed forever. Clementine, the only survivor of an emergency town hall meeting that descends into murderous chaos, is on the run from savage strangers who used to be her friends and neighbors. And Michael witnesses a brutal road rage incident that is made much worse by the arrival

The Great Gatsby is an extraordinary novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who tells the story about the wealthy man of Long Island named, Jay Gatsby, a middle aged man with a mysterious past, who lives at a gothic mansion and hosts many parties with many strangers who were not entirely invited. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many characters are discussed uniquely to an extent from the festive, yet status hungry Roaring Twenties. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald introduces