Analysis Of The Outsiders In The Body Of Chris Creed

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Outsider is when a person who is very isolated from others. In The Body of Christopher Creed by Plum-Ucci and the article “Kids Shuffle Lunch Seats” by Bock, outsiders are described as kids that are isolated at school, home and anywhere else. The author’s message about outsiders is that people who are outsiders needed to speak up when they do have a difficult time socializing with other people, this is proven in the book when Chris Creed had a lot of money, but lacked at using social skills and oftenly very isolated, and people described Chris Creed as a big mouth, weird, annoying, etc. He became an outsider because they’re bullying him. In the article, when Lili Smith goes to cafeteria to eat lunch, but goes directly to bathroom and cries, …show more content…
He’s very isolated. Mr. and Mrs.Creed both bought Chris a “great pentium twenty-three gig with surround sound” (Plum-Ucci 29). Chris Creed’s family is rich, and his parents bought him an expensive computer. This proves the author’s message that outsiders needed to speak up when they do have difficult time socializing with others because Torey kind of wanted to blame Chris Creed’s parents. He thinks that buying a new computer doesn’t help improve Chris Creed’s social skills. People bullied Chris Creed, because they described Chris Creed a big mouth and weird. He became an outsider. One really scariest member of the boons named Bo Richardson beats up kids whose big mouth, weird, and annoying. What he did to Chris Creed is pushing, “Chris off the top bleacher in the gym” (Plum-Ucci 19). Some kind of flashbacks occur when Bo Richardson did something bad to Chris Creed. This is similar to the book example because, Chris Creed had no experience socializing with other people, he often got into trouble for trying, because he doesn’t know how he can communicate properly with others. This proves the author’s message that outsiders needed to speak up when they do have a difficult time socializing with others because, Chris Creed kept beaten up by Bo Richardson. He doesn’t go ask others for help when he struggling socializing with others. He tried to be like them, instead he made them mad. Why, because he have no experiences socializing with

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