Outcast And How Our Views Of Them Are Established
...d the Neighborhood. The people think of him as a freak and use him to do their yard work and make their bushes look nice. People become jealous of all the attention he gets and start to treat him badly. In the end the girl who fell in love with Edward, her ex boyfriend is driving under the influence, to find Edward and beat him up. While driving drunk he doesn’t see a kid in the street, who he almost hits. Luckily Edward does see the kid and darts/runs into the street and saves him but in all the commotion of trying to help the kid Edward forgets that he doesn’t have hands and cuts the kid all up. He is then chased back to his castle on top of the hill where he fights the ex boyfriend who has a gun. Edward became an outcast because of jealousy of what he could do with his “scissors.” He made beautiful sculptures out of trees and was loved for this but because he couldn’t do anything else he was cast out of society to become “the other” in the movie. In the book The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, Celie is constantly being tormented as an outcast. “ You bitch, he say. What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don’t have a house to look after?...You ain’t getting a penny of my money, Mr Say to me. Not one thin dime. ... You ugly, you won’t make it there, you will be back.” (Walker, pages 207-210). Celie deals with this throughout the book and her life. She was “the other”/outcast in this book. She was tossed out and focused on as an outcast because she wasn’t as good looking as most of the girls. She did what she was told by all men, and because she didn’t stand up for herself at all until her confidence was boosted by Shrug. Outcast are defined by all kinds of media and opinions people have. Standards of society are started by advertisements that involve famous people like athletes and actors/actresses. They also are started by books, magazines, movies, and the urge to want to fit in and be popular. In Edward Scissorhands it makes people think that if someone is different from the average person that they are an outcast and need to ...