Essay 1
Suleman Parwaiz
Humanities 17
7/10/13
Summer Session
Stranger Than Fiction
1. Fate vs. free will, “Stranger than fiction” is about battling conformity and encouraging individuality through life changing events and adaptations. Life is short, enjoy it and most importantly do what you enjoy.
2A: Harold Crick
Harold Crick wants Ana Pascal as he states after he gives her flowers. When he tells Ana he wants her he doesn’t care about the rules or anything else at that moment but her because she is the only thing he’s been thinking about.
Professor Hilbert asks Harold if he has any dreams or ambitions. Harold says he’s always wanted to play the guitar because he wishes his life were more musical.
He wants to stay alive and make a new live with Ana instead of dying as a character in a book. He feels as if he finally made an enjoyable life for himself and is mad because it has to end so quickly.
2B: Karen Eiffel
She wants to find a way to kill Harold Crick to end her masterpiece “Death and Taxes.” She explores many different ways for example, jumping off a building. She ends up deciding to kill him by having Harold get hit by a bus trying to save a boy.
She goes to the hospital and wants to see people that are about to die or ones that are already dead in order to help her find the right way to kill Harold.
She want to get rid of her writers block and finish her story.
2C: Ana Pascal
She wants to make Harold life miserable because she feels she should have to pay the remaining 22% of her taxes. She unorganized all of her files to make Harold work all day sorting out her taxes.
She wants Harold out of her life because she thinks he is a creep. She yells calling him a “Taxman” and wants him to “get bent.”
She wants Harold to play a song with her guitar after dinner.
3A: Needs
Harold Crick’s need is to break his barrier of structure/ conformity and finally enjoy life.
Humanities 17
7/10/13
Summer Session
Stranger Than Fiction
1. Fate vs. free will, “Stranger than fiction” is about battling conformity and encouraging individuality through life changing events and adaptations. Life is short, enjoy it and most importantly do what you enjoy.
2A: Harold Crick
Harold Crick wants Ana Pascal as he states after he gives her flowers. When he tells Ana he wants her he doesn’t care about the rules or anything else at that moment but her because she is the only thing he’s been thinking about.
Professor Hilbert asks Harold if he has any dreams or ambitions. Harold says he’s always wanted to play the guitar because he wishes his life were more musical.
He wants to stay alive and make a new live with Ana instead of dying as a character in a book. He feels as if he finally made an enjoyable life for himself and is mad because it has to end so quickly.
2B: Karen Eiffel
She wants to find a way to kill Harold Crick to end her masterpiece “Death and Taxes.” She explores many different ways for example, jumping off a building. She ends up deciding to kill him by having Harold get hit by a bus trying to save a boy.
She goes to the hospital and wants to see people that are about to die or ones that are already dead in order to help her find the right way to kill Harold.
She want to get rid of her writers block and finish her story.
2C: Ana Pascal
She wants to make Harold life miserable because she feels she should have to pay the remaining 22% of her taxes. She unorganized all of her files to make Harold work all day sorting out her taxes.
She wants Harold out of her life because she thinks he is a creep. She yells calling him a “Taxman” and wants him to “get bent.”
She wants Harold to play a song with her guitar after dinner.
3A: Needs
Harold Crick’s need is to break his barrier of structure/ conformity and finally enjoy life.