MISFITS

Society often sets the example of how it wants life to be and how life is expected to be lived out. Tim Burton, a well-known director and producer, shows through his movies that even though society sets an example, people don’t have to follow that example, and sometimes they should not. Tim Burton incorporates outcast protagonists and motherly/fatherly figures in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland to convey the idea that young people truly find themselves when they deviate…

taken in an instint or slowly and painfully sucked away from you until you die of a disease or the infamous gas chamber. In the camp, horrible human experiments were taken place by Joseph Mengele where he would experiment on dwarfs, twins, and other misfits. In Auschwitz there were three different units in the camp, all were…

The antebellum reformation period was a time of abundant change such as the temperance movement, abolitionist movement, and school and prison reform, anymore more; this period was manifested by firm social mores, which did not allow rehabilitation into society. Not to mention society was profoundly male dominated. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter (1852) is an exceptional example of such. The Scarlett Letter primarily describes the events that take place in fictional puritan society…

Another character who is seen as a misfit on the ranch is Crooks. To many, he is seen to be just a “nigger” and should not be regarded as having the same worth as a farm worker of Caucasian descent (80). After Lennie’s fight with Curley, he seeks out Crooks. While Lennie and Crooks are talking…

of make him a misfit. Then toward the end of the book Charlie gets too smart and recognizes the boy being bullied by his employer and Charlie laughed because he became part of the harsh society, by gaining knowledge. In which he notices and acknowledges that, that boy used to be him and he understood now that when he was slower people were actually making fun of him. This book and project tie together because of the Charlie and the special needs kids in Mrs. Putman are both misfits in society…

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, public misfit, murderer, racketeer and arms dealer, all characteristics contributing to his status as a mobster. Currently 86 years old, Whitey Bulger has had a full life of crime beginning at the early age of 14. In the time since Whitey’s legacy has stretched from theft, forgery, assault and battery, larceny and armed robbery as a youth, to bank robberies, murder and becoming an enforcer for crime lord Donald Killeen. After Killeen’s death, Bulger joined the Winter Hill…

doll is terrifying and symbolizes how terrified I am of other people. When I look at this doll, it makes me feel uncomfortable and uneasy. That is how I feel when I’m around other people. I’m introverted, so I sometimes feel uncomfortable and like a misfit around people I don’t know very well. I am constantly afraid of how others perceive me. I never want to be less…

hydrology generated by snowmelt or rain-induced floods is 1-2 orders of magnitude less than the discharge generated by an outburst flood from a glacial lake. Furthermore, modern Thames River occupies a small area during large floods and is clearly a misfit river channel. However, with current field evidence we cannot determine whether drainage was a single event of repeated lake fill and drain cycles. Moraine-dammed…

to diminish the grandmothers conventional view of mortality. Which would be the complete opposite of what the bible leans toward. Symbolism also shows O'Connor's question among her faith when the grandmother is killed, after trying to convince the misfit that he is a good man, and the imagery provided for her death leaving readers to make a consumption. “Hiram and Bobby Lee returned to the woods and stood over the ditch, looking down at the grandmother who half sat and half lay in a puddle of…

Flannery O'Connor demonstrates how having a false perception of reality leads to prejudice. Flannery O'Connor most frequently demonstrates this using the concept of racial prejudice in her short stories. This is shown due to the commonality protagonist refusing to accept social change. Many of Flannery O'Connor's stories deal with characters who are living in society after the abolishment of slavery. For example, Flannery O'Connors short story ¨Everything that Rises Must Converge¨ centers around…