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    ” Melanie Daniels is being attacked by birds because she is a stranger to Bodega Bay. This is because the birds do not start attacking until Melanie gets to Bodega Bay‚ the birds target areas where Melanie is‚ and the birds attack people who Melanie knows. To start with‚ the birds do not start attacking until Melanie gets to Bodega Bay. First of all‚ the birds attack Melanie Daniels because she is a stranger to Bodega Bay‚ due to the fact that the birds do not attack until

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    story were the clock‚ rooms and the stranger and they all foreshadow that death is inevitable. In the story‚ the author begins to write about the clock and describe the characteristics of how it contributes to death. During the party the pendulum chimed seven times. Seven also means there are a beginning and a ending. When the clock chimed seven times‚ the party stops with confusion. My symbols were the location of the clock‚ in the black room‚ added mysterious and suspense. Another symbol

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    Baskervilles a mysterious person visits the shared home of John Watson and Sherlock holmes‚ but they weren’t there to meet him‚ they discover a walking stick that the mysterious visitor left behind. Watson notices that it’s a nice walking stick and is engraved under the handle‚ the engraving says "to James Mortimer MRCS from the friends of the CCH" its dated 1884. Watson deducts that it belongs to a doctor and is from a hunting club‚ but he’s pretty wrong. Holmes tells him that the stranger is a doctor

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    her for his lover Agnes‚ but after a near-fatal crash‚ the Bleeding Nun returns to him night after night slowly draining him of all his strength. The Bleeding Nun also brings horror to Raymond because her reasons for attaching herself to him are mysterious‚ “I gazed upon the Specter with horror too great to be described” (Lewis‚ 140). This continues until the Wandering Jew explains the Bleeding Nun’s history and that her bones must be put to rest‚ after which her spirit becomes dormant. Because of

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    The Histrionic Arrival During the course of King Arthur’s New Year’s celebration‚ a mysterious stranger- who oddly is entirely green- interrupts the festivity to challenge the King himself. The green‚ giant-like stranger is described by the poet to be of such openhanded civility; a man who should be paid with high respects. The narrator vindicates this claim in lines 18-20‚ declaring “So monstrous a mount‚ so mighty a man in the saddle/ Was never once encountered on all this earth/ till then;”(The

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    misfortunes”. Nevertheless‚ little is known about the stranger until he declares‚ “I wait but for one event‚ and then I shall repose in peace.” The denotative meaning of the word repose is rest/sleep‚ which suggests the stranger will be able to rest easier once he completes a specific deed. The connotative definition of repose‚ however‚ could be death‚ meaning once he completes what he has set out to do‚ he can finally die in peace. It is clear the stranger does not mean to try to change what has already

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    In the passage The War Prayer by Mark Twain he tells a satirical story in which a mysterious man comes before a crowd of ignorant mass. Through this story and his setting he satirizes human logic when it comes to war and our tendency to not think our decisions through ; especially patriotic thoughts of war and glory. Twain satirically writes of the unseen and unthought-of horrors with a mock diction‚ excessive hyperbole and vivid imagery. At first glance it seems Twain seeks to write of glory and

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    How can ‘gods’ impact one’s life? This is answered in the film ‘Stranger Than Fiction’. It is about a man named Harold Crick whose life is changed in a tragic fashion by an author‚ Karyn Iffel‚ and a literary Professor‚ Jules Hilbert. Marc Forster‚ the director‚ uses various camera angles‚ contrasting colours and sound to answer the question: how does the ‘gods’ affect ones life. Throughout the film ‘Stranger Than Fiction’‚ Forster’s employment of camera angles depicts the impact of ‘gods’ have

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    The woman in the play is very lonely and rarely gets visitors‚ so she is very willing to let a stranger into her home just to hear a voice. A review by Kurt Brighton in the Denver Post hints that the theme is that of an overwhelming fear of affection between the two characters because of a previous experience which caused them pain. Kurt says‚ “The

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    decisions‚ and desires combine to change Eragon’s life forever. Eragon is a hard working farm boy who shows a great deal of patience‚ honesty‚ and curiosity. He showcases these skills when hunting for food‚ and by coincidence he discovers a mysterious blue stone which he decides‚ out of curiosity‚ to take home with him. This “egg”‚ which happens to hatch into a dragon; this discovery becomes a turning point in Eragon’s life and he knows it could enable his way out of a long and tedious life

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