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.The theme of the mysterious stranger is common in literature. In the traditional form of this theme, a mysterious stranger appears in the life of an individual or community. Often, in a series of dramatic events, the stranger makes a sacrifice through which the life of an individual or community is improved. Choose one of the stories in the unit that features a stranger. Explain how the story fits, or deviates from, the theme of the mysterious stranger.

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As you did not inform what the stories were presented in the unit, I used the story "The mysterious stranger" by Mark Twain to answer the question.

"The mysterious stranger" by Mark Twain is a great example of how this theme presents itself in literature, since this story is based entirely on the arrival of a strange and mysterious young man in the city, who claims to be an angel and nephew of Satan. The young man begins to carry out a series of surprising actions, causes fulminating deaths, teleports, visions, time passages, among other things, completely changing the lives of the protagonists and the city as a whole.

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