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Title: The Perfect Stranger... (Video)
Date: February 22, 2013
By: Stephanie Belmore
City: Milton
State: DE
Grade: 9
School: Cape Henlopen High School
Lesson Plan # 2 Focusing on Interpretation Original Monologues
Cape Henlopen High School Lewes, DE
“The Perfect Stranger”
I now cannot tell the difference whether I have hidden myself in this closet or if I have been forced in here. The closet does not belong to a friend of mine, no, it belongs to the stranger… the stranger who never tucks me into bed after a long day at school. It belongs to the stranger who doesn’t care enough about me or themselves to stay sober for the one night that I really needed to show them that I am more than just a child in the stranger’s closet. But the strangers hadn’t known what they were getting themselves into. Having to care about a helpless life form was no more important than some spider in a dark corner. It must have been really difficult for the strangers to put away their “influential” life style to keep the creation that would have been better off just remaining a lovely thought…