To be successful, people need to belong, each in their own way. There are various ways that people can belong. Music, reading, daydreaming, science, fashion are just a few of the countless ways people belong. We don’t realize it, but several famous people that we appreciate and love so much were once considered outcasts. But through the things they loved the most, they found a way to belong and eventually became important people in our lives, helping us to feel like we belong in some way. Overall, people need to belong at least to some extent, to be able to achieve what they want in life. Several people will say there are plenty of famous people who didn’t belong and didn’t need to belong to become famous. They use Taylor Swift, J.K. Rowling,
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Mr. Dimmesdale sees himself as an outsider because of the awful sin he has committed, but in reality, it actually makes the congregation actually be able to understand him and relate to him. “He had told his hearers that he was altogether vile, a viler companion of the vilest, the worst of sinners, an abomination, a thing of unimaginable iniquity… they heard it all, and did but reverence him the more… Alas, if he discern such sinfulness in his own white soul, what horrid spectacle would he behold in thine or mine!” ( Hawthorne 159). This shows that they felt they connected with him because of how terrible he said his sins were. Everyone in that town had sinned numerous times, but several of them were able to hide them and hope no one found out and tried to continue their lives as if nothing had happened. Knowing that their own pastor had done terrible things too, made them feel better knowing it was not just one person committing tons of sins. Also, at the end of The Scarlet Letter, after Mr. Dimmesdale dies, the town is still by his side, coming up with ideas of how these events had played out and seeing everything he had gone through, knowing that they had all been in similar situations, just with different reactions and outcomes. They could see his death as their future because of all the sins they have committed too, hoping that when he died he went to heaven so that they …show more content…
There are tons famous people who were considered outsiders. One example is J.K. Rowling. She was bullied as a kid and considered an outsider, but in reality, she was only an outsider to the kids around her, but when she read books and daydreamed she felt she belonged. Now she is known as the author of a highly popular book series, Harry Potter, where she shows people extremely important life lessons and hopes that they can detect these life lessons in the story and use them to make their own dreams come true. Everyone needs to belong, but there are numerous ways that people can belong, not always in the way you think, but to them, it is the way they make it through even the toughest of
Mr. Dimmesdale sees himself as an outsider because of the awful sin he has committed, but in reality, it actually makes the congregation actually be able to understand him and relate to him. “He had told his hearers that he was altogether vile, a viler companion of the vilest, the worst of sinners, an abomination, a thing of unimaginable iniquity… they heard it all, and did but reverence him the more… Alas, if he discern such sinfulness in his own white soul, what horrid spectacle would he behold in thine or mine!” ( Hawthorne 159). This shows that they felt they connected with him because of how terrible he said his sins were. Everyone in that town had sinned numerous times, but several of them were able to hide them and hope no one found out and tried to continue their lives as if nothing had happened. Knowing that their own pastor had done terrible things too, made them feel better knowing it was not just one person committing tons of sins. Also, at the end of The Scarlet Letter, after Mr. Dimmesdale dies, the town is still by his side, coming up with ideas of how these events had played out and seeing everything he had gone through, knowing that they had all been in similar situations, just with different reactions and outcomes. They could see his death as their future because of all the sins they have committed too, hoping that when he died he went to heaven so that they …show more content…
There are tons famous people who were considered outsiders. One example is J.K. Rowling. She was bullied as a kid and considered an outsider, but in reality, she was only an outsider to the kids around her, but when she read books and daydreamed she felt she belonged. Now she is known as the author of a highly popular book series, Harry Potter, where she shows people extremely important life lessons and hopes that they can detect these life lessons in the story and use them to make their own dreams come true. Everyone needs to belong, but there are numerous ways that people can belong, not always in the way you think, but to them, it is the way they make it through even the toughest of