Staring Essays

The essay, “Why Do We Stare?” by Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, proves my personal theory on the stare; “staring encounters nonetheless, drafts the staree into a story of the starer’s making, whatever that story might be, whether they like it or not” (8). And because of these assumptions and story-making, there are times I had to reflect on myself. Do I identify

In every story there is an antagonist, and a protagonist. The antagonist is the hero of the story, and typically the most liked character. The protagonist on the other hand is disliked by several people. However, there are also characters that don’t fall into the antagonist category, but they also don’t fit into the protagonist category, these characters are somewhere in-between. In My Àntonia Lena Lingard is one of those characters that is not an antagonist, and she is not a protagonist, she is

As humans, we tend to set ourselves apart from other animals. As we see it, animals are mindless and base their choices on instinct or survival. However, humans are superior because we have developed intellect that influences our actions. Despite this thought, Annie Dillard has rejected these ideas in her essay “Living Like Weasels,” suggesting that we should all become more attuned with nature. She believes that nature has powerful messages to teach us. Occasionally, following your basic instinct

race to our own personal beliefs. Some people say we have the choice to choose our own identity, but is that always true? No, in fact other people can affect how we look and essentially identity our self’s. In the article called. “Gawking, Gaping, staring” this article is written by Eli Clare from Tim Marrows telling. In this article it is about a transgender individual who throughout their whole lives have been ridiculed by this one characteristic. The person in the story tells you about many years

The poem, “Incident” by Countee Cullen is about the author's first experience with racism as an eight-year-old boy riding the bus in Baltimore. The speaker was experiencing his first-time riding on a bus by himself. Cullen was very excited because when he was on the bus he was “Heart-filled, head filled with glee”( 2). This shows how the author is taking in such a simple experience. Children tend to be amused by the simplest thing like a ride on a bus. The author’s reaction to the bus ride shows

Fear Eats the Soul with Professor Girish Shambu. In the film there are many themes presented and debated. One of the main themes was the concept of race and how people view and oppress different races. Another theme was the constant stillness and staring from people. Throughout the film these themes and other themes were presented. One theme that was repeated through Ali: Fear Eats the Soul was the constant topic of race and immigrants. Ali, a moroccan migrant worker, marries a white, German 60

dissolve, creating puddles in front of all the downhill houses. While I begin to walk downtown, I spot an ugly looking man staring at me from afar. I have an uneasy feeling about this guy, so I begin to walk towards him. As I make my way towards him, he runs away and I run on after him. He

is standing at the edge of the fence and handing the other children candy. She looks over and sees Leah standing and staring at her. ”She was just standing to one side, staring at me. It was so creepy. After a minute I looked away. When I looked back, she was gone. Disappeared as if she’d never been”. As you can see from the story, Suzy is very uncomfortable when she sees Leah staring at her and is scared. In the middle, the girls are forced

theme. To begin with let's look at the end of chapter 1 where we see Gatsby staring at the green light. During chapter one we are not exactly sure what this green light he is staring at represents we could only make a broad inference about it. As the novel progresses we find out the green light actually represents a state of hope. We also could only make a broad inference here about what Gatsby is hoping for staring until the novel progressed , as it progressed

motion. Another example that was given in this episode was a pair of eyes staring on the edge of the screen, the narrator of this show asked us to look at the opposite edge of the screen, while a pair of eyes was staring at the opposite side of the edge. It appears that your brain will not register the instructions that were given by the narrator, our mind tricked us and followed the same direction the pair of eyes were staring at. This is known as the deictic gaze. The deictic gaze is used by human

fear of what is to come. The author’s word choice describing the crowd and eyewitness when the alien first appears, “A sudden chill came over me.”, “astonishment giving place to horror”, “ungovernable terror gripped me”, and “stood petrified and staring” also heightens the fear of the unknown. There is no such description in the radio broadcast. Next, the author creates a monster, something to fear, of the alien with his description as opposed to the radio broadcast. In the radio broadcast, the alien

on the elevator with him, and if she was just staring at him, so Martin also had the fear of scopophobia.’’Well she was on the elevator with me twice today. And the funny thing was that she just kept on staring at me, she never stopped looking at me for a minute, you think ..,you know of anybody who has a weird cleaning lady or anything.’’ Lines,125-127. Martin would get scared if the fat lady was on the elevator with him, and if she was just staring at him,so Martin also had the fear of scopophobia

tone towards her father through the details of her reaction to Ginny’s proposition. After a heated exchange transitions to Ginny suggesting that they try setting Larry to strict rules, “Rose walked to the front window and stood with her back to me, staring west across the fields”

are used to seeing someone like him in their hometowns. This effects Steadman’s actions because he is not used to how the southerners act. Specifically, Steadman is staring at a young man trying to capture all the right features to draw him, but the man is agitated for the way Steadman is staring. Thompson calls Steadman out on the staring, and because of his experience he tells him that down in Kentucky you cannot just stare at people and draw them like monsters and expect them to be okay with it.

that sounds like a depressing life, it is. Jason wants so badly to just live like a normal boy. Being paralyzed in a wheelchair and the inability to talk makes Jason 's life all that much harder. Then, he meets Catherine, a girl who just can 't stop staring at him in the Occupational Therapy office. Rules by Cynthia Lord, teaches a valuable lesson that people are not always as they appear to be. Catherine, a twelve year old girl, is having a pretty depressing summer. She doesn 't go to camp and is

In picture 10 the girls give off an irritated tone. I think this because they are staring each other dead in the eyes like they want to kill each other. They also have a mean look on their faces. Everyone is staring at them like they did something wrong or said something bad, They also have a shocked face on them. They don’t have smiles on their faces so they must not be happy with each other, and

making disgusted faces at women who breastfeed in public People also make comments and tell breastfeeding mother they should make it more private And take it to the bathroom or somewhere else. Men can be watching when women are breastfeeding and staring and making other women hate it because their partner is “looking” at other women A faithful man wouldn 't stare or look at another women if they are Committed to the relationship they are in with the women who are getting mad or jealous. Because

Crisp,dark, dead, dry, smells of bonfires and candy was how I described this night but a night didn't do it justice. It was so much more than a night, it was a nightmare, a horror movie come true, all my biggest fears coming to life.. 8:30 p.m. on a beautiful fall night to be exact. Mom and dad out at the church halloween party, so I was left to tend to my rambush siblings who were covered with excitement about Halloween the next day. We sat on the couch watching television to pass the time. My house

It was late July, when I went on vacation with family and friends to Frankenmuth. Vacations present a lot of opportunities; a fresh change, new friendships, finding yourself as well as finding regret. Regret isn’t really something one should experience on a vacation; it should be a time to let your troubles fly away. Too bad I didn’t use this advice on myself. Instead, I decided to stalk three cute strangers around a hotel for one day of my exciting vacation. A three day trip to Frankenmuth’s

In the poem, the “folks stare,” because it is a rare sight according to the tone it took place in. I would assume it took place during the eighteen hundred up to the nineteen hundred. The folks staring become indignant, in other words, resentful, offended, or irritated. They felt this way because discrimination was still a big event occurring. People grew a hatred over the color of one’s skin and for being racist, this ticked some people off. Tableau means; a group of models or motionless figures