"As death bears down in "The Road," the main character obsessively protects his son and prepares him to carry on alone: "He knew only that the child was his warrant. ... In this perspective, the relationship of the characters reflects how McCarthy views his son. ... When the main character and his son come across a stranger in need, he refuses to help them. This is when the father and son reach the coast; a stranger steals a few of their supplies they go and look for the thief. ... Giving the stranger less a chance of survival and showing no mercy. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the book, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, the main character Huck Finn deals with numerous issues. ... Jim is another major character in the story. ... They sold Jim as a slave to a stranger for forty dollars. ... Huck thought of writing the letter because he thought Jim would be happier if he was a slave as home with his family rather than be a slave for a stranger. ...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He felt "much of Genesis spoke to me without intimacy, in the tones of a stranger: much of it didn't speak to me at all." ... The characters can be seen as good people who often do very bad things. ... Through relating with characters, experiences, and feelings we find ourselves being drawn into the text. ... The characters in Genesis are much like people in real life. All of the characters, even God, can be seen as flawed individuals. ...

• Word Count: 1334
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

However, some individuals would rather help a complete stranger than family member due to either family issues or simply the more pleasure that will come out of the act. ... Say for instance, when giving to a stranger, they may look at us as an easy way out of the troubles of life. ... Practicing altruism is important because it helps develop character along with influencing others to do the same. ...

• Word Count: 1702
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On the other hand, Appiah describes intrinsic racists "as people who differentiate morally between members of different races because they believe that each race has a different moral status, quite independent of the moral characters entailed by its racial essence" (Appiah 2012, 630). ... Appiah believes that people who have cognitive incapacity are "people who are unable to give up beliefs that play a part in justifying the special advantages we gain from our positions in social order- in particular, beliefs about the positive character of the class of people who share that pos...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both Sassoon and Findley's characters start off as joyful men who overtime can no longer stand the torture and agony that they face every day; which is what leads to their suicides that were committed in the same way. ... I'm just another stranger. ...

• Word Count: 1704
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his creature and flees, rejecting it as a demon. ... " (Shelley 73) In saying the stranger's flight surprised him, the creature demonstrates he had not yet realized what he was, nor what that made him in relation to other people. ...

• Word Count: 1509
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate