Vocabulary Assignment, "Stereotype List"

• The selfish sadist who does not seem to care about anything or anyone.  He has lost his faith due to a traumatizing incident that happened to him when he was younger.  He openly desecrates anything that has religious value to others, because he finds it stupid for people to believe in such things.

• The lazy student who barely comes to class, copies down the main ideas of the lesson from others, and pays no attention to inconsequential details.

• The mad, balding scientist wearing glasses with huge frames, who lives an extremely isolated antisocial lifestyle.  Dies old and alone when he is in his mid fifties due to a poisonous concoction that was  accidentally slipped into his drink by his pet monkey.

                                                           

• The old lady who lives alone with her 10 pet cats in an isolated house too big for one person known as the ‘haunted house’.  She lays all day in front of the television talking to her cats as she awaits her ‘stories’ to come on.  Her cadaverous appearance supports her feeling of feeling dead inside.

• The beneficent successful man who reached his newly found status of wealth by working his way up.  He constantly gives back to the poorer members of society, because he understands what they are going through.

• The austere mother who has driven her children away from her as a result of her strict conduct.  She is not emotionally attached to her children as a result of her discontent in her marriage to a man 25 years her senior.

• The juvenile delinquent who commits infractions such as pillage frequently hoping to get a bit of attention from his alcoholic, depressed mother.

• The redoubtable revolutionary that is loved by many for his strength, vision, and ability.

• The vulnerable girl in her teens who was impregnated by someone who fooled her into thinking he was in love with her.

• The short man suffering from the Napoleon Syndrome who prates constantly about his ‘accomplishments’ in order to get some respect.

• The punctilious housewife who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder.  She irons her husbands shirts three times, because anything other than that will just not do.

• The stalwart repressed young man, who stood bravely in front of his repressors fighting for his peoples’ rights.

 Samar Al-Ansari

Grade 11.5 

3 January  2004