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    The American science fiction horror series looks like it’s a complete success! Critics claim that it is an excellent and addictive homage to Spielberg’s movies and vintage television. So why hasn’t Netflix renewed Stranger Things season 2 yet? Looking at the facts‚ over 14 million people view the first eight episodes since Stranger Things dropped in Netflix back in July 15. On the record‚ it is one of the most watched series in terms of being a Netflix original. It even topped Marvel’s Daredevil

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    Fan fiction rough draft Only seven years has passed‚ but everything seems different when the girls look back to their past. Meg’s daughter‚ Hayla‚ stole candy out of a jar that belonged to Justin. Justin was Jo’s only son and he was 5 years old. Hayla and Justin fought for the chocolate that Justin saved for over a year. It started by a kid fight but then it reached their mothers. Both Meg and Jo take it personally every time their children fight. They would fight with each other too

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    The Sun Motif The sun‚ warm and beautiful‚ is a necessity of all life force on earth. In contrast to the sun warmth and beauty‚ Albert Camus uses the sun as the motivation of the main character Meursault’s actions in The Stranger. The sun is a complex symbol which has several meanings in the novel. From the day of Maman’s funeral to the day of his death‚ the sun keeps repeating again and again throughout the novel‚ and it is a distraction to the main character Meursault. The sun is a symbol of

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    The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1946. The novel begins with Meursault receiving a telegram informing him of his mother’s death. Over the next two weeks after the funeral‚ Meursault carries on like nothing tragic happened. He gets a girlfriend‚ befriends a pimp‚ and goes on a beach vacation with both. During the vacation‚ he and Raymond‚ the pimp‚ get into a fight with the Arabs and Meursault kills one without an explanation for the crime. At the murder trial‚ the court said he was cold-hearted

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    While reading the Stranger I noticed a pattern of avoiding emotional words or describing events that for a normal person would have great emotional impact. ”Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace”(Albert 59). After reading this part of the book you could tell there was no emotion in Meursault. After killing someone you would fell some sort of emotion even if that may be hatred‚ remorse or fear you would think Meursault would show emotion

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    The Itinerant One The Stranger by Albert Camus starts off with Meursault‚ who is the narrator of the story (in first person)‚ getting him a sad telegraph that tells him about the death of his beloved mom. Meursault then with no emotion goes to Marengo to see his mother’s body. The director of the assisted living home told him that he could see his mother. When Meursault found out that she was in her coffin‚ he declined the offer to take a look at her with disgust on his face. In the night‚

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    Yuliya Zubrilina Text analysis of “The little stranger” by Sarah Waters “The Little Stranger” is a 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters. It is a ghost story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire‚ England in the 1940s. This novel features a male narrator‚ a country doctor who makes friends with a family with faded fortunes left simply with a very old estate that is crumbling around them. The stress of reconciling the state of their finances with the familial responsibility of keeping

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    John Killebrew Joshua Parsons 1/8/2013 En-1113 Ines Kitchen In this fiction short story “Ines in the Kitchen”‚ Cristina Garcia discusses a women in the story Ines‚ who is a housewife and pregnant. Garcia talks mainly about the character Ines and her situation and emotions. Throughout the story Ines feels trapped and confused about life in the choices she made‚ she feels betrayed not in the since from someone but of herself and the expectation of being a women. The author Cristina Garcia creates

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    Analysis “Story Truth” and “Happening Truth” in The Things They Carried Throughout The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien it is difficult to separate what is fictitious‚ and what is true. During the entire work there are two different “truths”‚ which are “story truth” and “happening truth”. “Happening truth” is the actual events that happen‚ and is the foundation or time line on which the story is built on. “Story truth” is the molding or re-shaping of the “happening truth” that allows the

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    people view the truth as being one of the most fundamental building blocks of any relationship. However‚ there are certain instances‚ where the truth might be a difficult thing to disclose to someone. Truth has the power to either set one free‚ or destroy a friendship‚ relationship‚ and especially trust. Trust‚ in terms of the truth‚ is what either holds something together or tears it apart. As with all chances‚ there are both good consequences and bad consequences with telling the truth‚ however when

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